During her academic career, Standish held teaching positions in Japan and notably worked as an Emerita Reader in ‘Film and Media Studies’ with the Japan and Korea Section of the ‘East Asian Languages and Culture Department’ and a member of the ‘Centre for Creative Industries, Media and Screen Studies’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London. She worked within the Centre of Korean Studies and the Japan Research Centre At SOAS, she has been the lead convenor for the ‘Master's degree in Global Cinemas and the Transcultural’ and supervised numerous PhDs. In 2018, Standish accepted the Ishibashi FoundationVisiting Professorship in Japanese Art History at Heidelberg University.
Standish, Isolde, A New History of Japanese Cinema: A Century of Narrative Film. New York: Continuum.
Standish, Isolde, Myth and Masculinity in the Japanese Cinema: Towards a Political Reading of the Tragic Hero. London: Curzon.
Articles
Standish, Isolde, 'The Revolutionary Triptych'. Kiju Yoshida: Love and Anarchism, pp 29-43.
Standish, Isolde, 'The Ephemeral as Transcultural Aesthetic: a Contextualization of the Early Films of Ozu Yasujiro'. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 1, pp 3-14.
Standish, Isolde, 'The jidaigeki television series: myth, iteration and the domestication of the samurai hero'. Japan Forum, 3, pp 431-440.
Standish, Isolde, 'Night and Fog in Japan: Fifty Years On'. Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema, 2, pp 143-155.
Standish, Isolde, 'Film and Narrative in the Yakuza Genre'. Cinemaya, 2, pp 20-23. Standish, Isolde 'Chushingura and the Japanese Studio System'. Japan Forum, 1, pp 69-86.
Standish, Isolde, 'Mediators of Modernity: 'Photo-Interpreters' in Japanese Silent Cinema'. Oral Tradition, 1, pp 93-110.
Standish, Isolde, 'Korean Cinema and the New Realism: Text and Context'. East-West Film Journal, 2, pp 54-80.
Edited books or journals
Standish, Isolde,,, Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema. Volume 6, Number 1, May 2014. Oxford: Routledge.
Book chapters
Standish, Isolde 'Transgression and the Politics of Porn. Oshima Nagisa's In the Realm of the Senses '. In: Phillips, A. and Stringer, J.,, Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts. Abingdon: Routledge, pp 217-228.
Standish, Isolde 'Akira: Postmodernism and Resistance'. In: Martinez, D.P.,, The Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender Shifting Boundaries and Global Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp 56-74.
