Permanent Seminar on Visual and Media Studies

Project sponsored by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinology, USA

 

 

First forum (2015): Workshop on Chinese and Sinophone cinemas

Sponsored by CCK-IUCS; the UW Simpson Center for the Humanities; and the UW Moving Image Research Group

group photo
From left to right, top: Gu Yizhong (UW), Wang Zhuoyi (Hamilton), Jason McGrath (U of Minnesota, Yingjin Zhang (UCSD), Yomi Braester (UW), Jie Li (Harvard, Bao Weihong (Berkeley), Robert Chi (UCLA), James Tweedie (UW), Heekyong Kim (UW); bottom: Justin Jesty (UW), Zhao Can (UW), He Qian (UW), Zhang Junjun (Peking U), Li Bin (Beijing Film Academy). Photo by Wang Xiaonan (Tsinghua U).

 

PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

Sunday, 5/24

9:30-9:40 Yomi Braester: opening remarks

9:45-10:45

Bao Weihong, UC-Berkeley: “Staging in the Age of Mass Mobility: Hong Shen and the Porting of Effects”

Discussant: Yingjin Zhang

10:50-11:50

Wang Zhuoyi, Hamilton College: “Negotiating the Ideal Womanhood:

          Rewriting and Re-interpreting the Legend of Mulan in Late Qing and Republican China.”

Discussant: Bao Weihong

11:55-12:55

Li Jie, Harvard University: “Cinematic Guerrillas: Maoist Cinema as a Spirit Medium”

Discussant: Robert Chi

2:00-3:00

Robert Chi, UCLA: “Unwritten Rules; or, Taiwan as Method”

Discussant: James Steintrager

3:05-4:05

James Steintrager, UC-Irvine: “Cool War Hero: Ip Man, Cinematic Capital, and Hong Kong’s Final Fight”

Discussant: Chris Hamm, University of Washington

4:10-5:10

Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota: “Suppositionality, Virtuality, and Digital

          Cinematic Remediations of Chinese Narratives for a Global Market”

Discussant: James Tweedie, University of Washington

5:15-5:45

Gu Yizhong, University of Washington: “Foreign Martyrdom and Revolutionary Identity in the Film Dr. Bethune”
Discussant: Zhuoyi Wang

 

Monday, 5/25

10:-00-11:00

Yingjin Zhang, UC-San Diego: “Beyond Sinophone Articulation:

Translocality and Crossmediality in Isaac Julian’s Ten Thousand Waves”

Discussant: James Steintrager

11:05-12:05

Yomi Braester, University of Washington: “The Ethics of the Image and Chinese Cinema Studies”

Discussant: Jason McGrath