Centre for Film and Moving Image Research
The Centre for Film and Moving Image Research promotes research into film, the moving image, and also digital humanities. The centre seeks to advance research into the field through organizing talks, workshops and conferences, providing funding for research activities; and also through co-operating with the other research centres within the School of Communication. The centre also intends to establish a journal in the near future.
EVENTS
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| 29 Oct 2021 | Book Talk: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-links in Politics, Art, and Tradition (Hong Kong: Chunghwa Bookstore, 2021) | Dr. Kenny K.K. Ng |
| 29 Oct 2021 | Book Talk Details | Dr. Kenny K.K. Ng |
| 15 Oct 2021 | Master Class: Streaming Upstream: 7 Fragments on "Specialized" Storytelling in the Current Digital Landscape | Professor James Schamus |
| 15 Oct 2021 | Professor James Schamus | |
| FMIR Newsletter 3 | ||
| 17 Jun 2021 | Book Talk: Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks Voice, Ethnicity, Power |
Dr. Dorothy Wai Sim Lau |
| 25 May 2021 | Work about work: Digital storytelling and digital labor |
Dr. Michael Mandiberg |
| 17-18 May 2021 | Narrating New Normal – Graduate Student Symposium |
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michal Krzyzanowski, Chair in Media and Communication Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden |
| 15 Apr 2021 |
More Than Just Superhero Stories, The Rise of the Hybrid Publisher Studio |
Dr. Alisa Perren |
| 1 Apr 2021 |
Film Noir as a Moving Target: Its Constantly-evolving Storytelling Practices |
Prof. William Luhr |
| 9 Mar 2021 | Prof. Ellen Seiter | |
| 25 Jan 2021 | Screening of “Those 4 Years” Q & A with the film director Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu |
Dr. Joe Thomas |
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25 Nov 2020 |
Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China | Dr. Margaret Hillenbrand |
| FMIR Newsletter 2 | ||
| 28-30 Jan 2020 |
Martha Bayles, J.D. Conner, Lisa Dombrowski, Peter Hitchcock, Susan Jakes, Alexandra Juhasz, Liang Limin, Gina Marchetti, Sean O’Sullivan, Reece Peck, Richard Pena, Carl Plantinga, Stanley, Rosen, Paola Voci, Michael Walsh, Louisa Wei. |
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| 5 Nov 2019 |
“The Primary Sources of the “Magic” of Art” Eisenstein and East Asian Art |
Prof. Helen Grace Moderator: Dr. Lo Wai Luk |
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30 Oct 2019 |
The Politics of Sino-Hollywood Negotiation: Trump’s Trade War, Presidential Elections and Hong Kong |
Prof. Ying Zhu |
| 11 Oct 2019 |
The First Golden Age of Hong Kong Cinema: Integrating East and Weat, Old and New, North and South |
Mr. Sam Ho |
| 26 Sep 2019 | Singing, Not in vain…/ Making Meaning Through Song & Dance in Bollywood |
Prof. Arun Gupta Moderator: Dr. Kenny Ng |
| 24 Sep 2019 | “Watch Great Movies!” “Dangal” (2016) |
Prof. Arun Gupta Moderator: Prof. Ying Zhu |
| 24 Sep 2019 | Saare Jahan Se Achha… (Better than Rest Of The World…)/ Constructing Ideas of Nation and Identity in Bollywood |
Prof. Arun Gupta Moderator: Dr. Dorothy Lau |
| FMIR Newsletter 1 | ||
| 3 May 2019 |
Teaching About Asia Through Film : Using Visual Media to "Meet Students Where They Are" |
Dr. Gordon Gray |
| 17 Apr 2019 |
Methodologies and Approaches to the Study of Fandom: My Research Journey |
Prof. Anthony Fung |
| 12 Feb 2019 |
Master Class: The Tectonics of Humanity Documentary Film Retrospective Discussion |
Christian Frei |
| 25 Jan 2019 |
Dr. Dorothy Lau |
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| 13 Dec 2018 |
Prof. Zhang Tongdao |
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| 5 Dec 2018 |
Director: Yang Ming Ming Actress: Luna Kwok |
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| 6 Nov 2018 |
Prof. Jeff Wasserstrom |
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| 19 Oct 2018 |
Prof. Wang Zhuoyi |
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| 27 Jun 2018 |
Documentary Film: Regional Theoretical & Political Parameters -Day 3 (Private Screening of "Island" – Directed by Dr. Steven Eastwood) |
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| 26 Jun 2018 |
Documentary Film: Regional Theoretical & Political Parameters - Day 2 (Free Screening of "Vanished Archives" - Directed by Ms. Lo Yan Wai Connie) |
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| 25 Jun 2018 |
Documentary Film: Regional Theoretical & Political Parameters - Day 1 (Free Screening of "Raise the Umbrellas" - Directed by Dr. Evans Chan) |
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| 30 May 2018 |
Screening of "Anthropocene" (directed by Mr. Steve Bradshaw) |
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| 13 Apr 2018 |
"What is it like to work in Hollywood?": Making of Consensus Reality (Do It Yourself!) |
Mr. Steve Peterson |
| 23 Mar 2018 |
Docu-Drama and American Cold War Propaganda in the Philippines |
Dr. José B. Capino |
| 22 Jan 2018 | Prof. Timothy P. Barnard | |
| 1 Dec 2017 | Mr. Michel Hazanavicius | |
| 17 Nov 2017 | Dr. Scott Anthony | |
| 16 Jun 2017 |
Prof. Karen A Joe Laidler (Chair), |
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| 26 May 2017 |
Gender, Body and Creativity: Art and Filmmaking Workshop in Hong Kong and Africa (a Faculty Forum jointly organized with CMCR, HKBU) |
Mr. Kit Hung |
| 7 Apr 2017 | Lifeworld Series & The Phenomenalist-Realist Film | Mr. Joni Gutierrez |
| 13 Mar 2017 | The Independent Chinese Film Movement | Dr. Judith Pernin |
| 17 Oct 2016 | Special Collections: Behind The Scenes | Mr. Warren Sherk |