Futurities: Film and Media Theory and Contemporary China
A one day conference on contemporary Chinese film and media featuring a Keynote address by Professor Xuguang Chen, Peking University.
Schedule
10:30 AM
Welcoming Remarks
Professor Jane Gaines, Columbia University
Keynote Speech
Professor Xuguang Chen, Peking University
“The Blue Book, Film Industry Aesthetics, and Imagination Consumption: An Analysis and Theoretical Interpretation of Recent Trends in Chinese Cinema Based on Three Keywords”
Break
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Panel 1
Prof. Xiaoxi Shi, Nankai University; Columbia University
“From New Terms to Key Concepts: The Spread of Knowledge and the Discursive Strategies of Chinese Film Theories”
Prof. Ling Zhang, State University of New York, Purchase College
“Modernization of Chinese Cinematic Language: 1980s Sonic Realism and Its Contemporary Resonance”
Q & A
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM LUNCH BREAK
1:30 PM – 3 PM Panel 2
Prof. Jing Yang, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies; Visiting Professor, Pratt Institute
“An Alternative Narrative of Science Fiction Cinema in China: Crazy Alien”
Yulong Hu, PhD student, Stony Brook University
“Creating A World of Glaciers: Virtual Reality Animation as the Core of an Artistic Transmedia Ecosystem”
Ailin Zhou, PhD student, University of California, Santa Cruz
“Familial (Unbe)Longing, Worldly (Be)Longing: Visual Politics of the Queer Chinese Diaspora”
Q & A
3 PM – 3:30 PM BREAK
3:30 PM – 5 PM Panel 3
Wentao Ma, PhD student, University of California, San Diego
“The Ecological Apora: Necropolitics & Planetary Becoming in The Ozone Layer Vanishes (1990)”
Yingda Wang, MA graduate, Columbia University
“Speculating ‘Vernacular’ in the Logistics of Production and Perception”
Mia (Chuyang) Jin, MA graduate, Columbia University
“We Were Smart (2019): Infrastructural Body, Affective Labor and the Potential of Smart Culture”
