SCMC Denver 2020

Society for Cinema and Media Studies

Thursday, April 2, Session F: 11:15AM - 1:00PM

F 16 Undercurrents: Minorities and Media Margins in Asia         

Chair: Lin Song, University of Macau       

·        Ying Diao, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Christianity through Studio Production: Technology and the Changing Sounds of Lisu Religiosity in Contemporary Myanmar

·        Yiwen Liu, Simon Fraser University, Translocal Memory in Local Currents: Re-Imagining Hong Kong Through Minor Encounters

·        Qi Li, King's College London, In the Micro and For the Minor: Chinese Queer Cinema Goes Online

·        Lin Song, University of Macau, Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and DIY Pornography among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities

Saturday, April 4, Session R: 5:45PM - 7:30PM

R 1 In/Visible Crossings: Borders, Elsewheres, and Contemporary Asian Media Cultures                     

Chair: Ungsan Kim, University of Michigan  

Co-Chair: Hwa-Jen Tsai, National Chiao Tung University 

·        Erin Huang: Princeton University, Ocean Media: Floating Visuality and the Neoliberal Seascape

·        Hwa-Jen Tsai, National Chiao Tung University, Alien Encounters: Virtuality, Precarity, Displacement, and the Aesthetics of Despair in Chao De-Yin’s Films

·        Ungsan Kim, University of Michigan, Dreamscapes of the Borderlands: Mobility and Stasis in Zhang Lu’s Films

·        Sudhir Mahadevan, University of Washington, From a Material Politics to a Psycho-Politics: Faulkner to Lee Chang-dong

Individual papers

Thursday, April 2, Session H 3:15PM - 5:00PM

H15       Seeing Within and Beyond the Body: Transcending the Corporeal in Global Film and Media

·        Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Languages/SDI, Inbetween-ness of Queer Bodies: Disabled Gender in Contemporary China

Friday, April 3, Session J: 9:00AM - 10:45AM

J1           Framing East Asian Feminist Cinema

·        Lingzhen Wang, Brown University, The Black Velvet Aesthetic:Universal Cultural Feminism and Chinese Neotraditionalism in Woman Demon Human (1987)

Friday, April 3, Session M:  3:00PM - 4:45PM

M1         Self, Sex, and Nation: Ethnicity and Gender Across Asia

·        Xiuhe Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara, Regional Cinematic Mediation: Recalibrating Postsocialist Modernity through Sexual Economy in the Rust Belt of China

·        Li Zeng, Illinois State University, The Voice Within: Chinese Muslims, Ethnic Identity, and Self-Representation in the Hui Filmmaking Movement

Sunday, April 5, Session T: 11:30AM - 1:15PM

T21        Affect and Media Culture in Asia

·        Sarah Liao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, From Emotional to Political: Post-It-Note Arts of the Lennon Wall in the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in Hong Kong