CHINESE MEDIA
Chinese Films, Festivals, and The Future - 1:30PM
This panel will explore the challenges for Chinese cinema in the Global Marketplace
Featuring:
Sean Metzger | UCLA School of TFT a scholar
Xing Zhou | Dean of College of Art and Communication at Beijing Normal University
Yan Zhang | Associate Professor of the School of Arts and Communication at BNU
Yiwen Wang | Vice Dean of the College of Art and Communication at BNU and Director
of the Movie and Television Media Department
Moderated by:
Yiman Wang | Film+Digital Media / Social Documentary at UC Santa Cruz
PANELISTS
Xing Zhou, Ph.D., is Dean of College of Art and Communication at the Beijing Normal University (BNU). He is also a member at National Film Censorship Committee of the State Administration of Radio Film and Television (SARFT) and a member of Art Discipline Review Group at the board of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee of China.
Professor Zhou has over 30 years of experience as an educator and lecturer in cinematic field. He currently teaches doctoral-level courses in film & Television field. His recent research primarily focuses on film & television history and critical studies of cinematic arts.
Professor Zhou’s positions in BNU also include: Director of Institute of Arts Education; director of Communication and Art Experiment Center, “a Beijing demonstration center”; director of Digital Art Lab, which is a key lab of Beijing Normal University.
He is also the author of 11 academic books, as well as over 200 articles in academic journals.
Xing Zhou
Yan Zhang
Yan ZHANG, PH.D, is an associate professor of the School of Arts and Communication at the Beijing Normal University (BNU). Her teaching and research interests include the studies of the History of Chinese Film, Film Theory, and Hong Kong & Taiwan Film and Asian Film.
Professor Zhang’s experience at film industry spans the public and academic sectors. She is currently the Secretary-General on overseas management of the Beijing College Student Film Festival. Since 2007, she has been the Secretary-General for the Advisory Committee of Drama, Broadcast, Film & TV Education under the Chinese Ministry of Education.
Between 2005 and 2008, she completed the Youth Fund Project “Comparing Research on the Industrialization of Chinese and Korean Film," sponsored by Chinese Ministry of Education. In 2007 she worked on a project researching narration and audience in Korean & Chinese film on a grant from the Korean Film Council. Zhang Yan joint the University of Southern California in 2012 as a visiting scholar. She got her Ph.D. of Film Major from Beijing Normal University in 2008. Before that, She got her M.A. and B.A of film in 2001 and 1998.
Until now, She has published more than 40 academic articles on Chinese Film theory magazines, such as Film Art, Contemporary Cinema, Modern Communication and Journal of Beijing Film Academy.
Yiwen Wang, Ph.D., is Vice Dean of the College of Art and Communication at the Beijing Normal University (BNU) and Director of the Movie and Television Media Department.
He teaches doctoral-level courses in BNU including World Film History and Chinese Film History. His primary research interests regard the studies on film theory and history with an emphasis on the comparative analysis between Chinese and foreign movies.
Since 1999, Professor Wang has been as the President of the jury for the Beijing College Student Film Festival (BCSFF). In addition to that, He is currently a member of film evaluation board of CCTV Movie Channel.
Yiwen Wang
Sean Metzger is currently an Assistant Professor in the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television. He was on the faculty of Duke University for many years prior to his arrival.
His publications in cinema include his forthcoming book Chinese Looks: the Sino/American Interface and Skeins of Race (Indiana University Press) and the co-edited volume Futures of Chinese Cinema: Technologies and Temporalities in Chinese Screen Cultures (Intellect, 2009).
He has received various awards including a Fulbright fellowship. In addition to his academic work, he has been a consultant for such venues as Women’s Educational Media and Disney Imagineering.
Sean Metzger
Yiman Wang
Yiman Wang is an associate professor of film and digital media at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her book on cross-Pacific film remaking, Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Hollywood (University of Hawaii Press), is forthcoming in 2013.
Yiman specializes in transnational/trans-regional Chinese cinemas of all periods, Intra-Asian and cross-Pacific film remakes, Pan-East Asian celebrity culture, East Asian cultural studies, and Asian American cinema.
Yiman's research and teaching interests include transnational connections of Chinese cinema and documentary filmmaking in China.
MODERATOR