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.
Events
| Date | Topic | Speaker |
| GST Journal Newsletter September 2023 - May 2024 issue | ||
| FMIR Newsletter 6 | ||
| 9 May 2024 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - APOCALYPSE TELEVISION, THE DAY AFTER, AND PRODUCING TO POWER | Professor David Craig (USC Annenberg Associate Professor, Harvard Visiting Scholar, Global Fulbright Scholar, Author) HOST: Prof. ZHU Ying |
| 16 April 2024 | Global Sinophonia 15 - Gaming Reincarnation Inside the Chinese Pressure Cooker: Reading, Streaming, Teaching Reset | Professor Sheng-Mei MA 馬聖美(Professor of English at Michigan State University US) HOST: Dr. Kenny NG |
| 3 April 2024 | Global Sinophonia 14 - Criminal Realism: Censorship and Hong Kong Crime Films in the Long 1970s | Dr. Kristof Van Den Troost (Assistant Professor/MA Programme Director, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) Discussant: Dr. Tom Cunliffe (Lecturer (Teaching) in East Asian Film and Media, University College London) HOST: Dr. Kenny NG |
| 2 April 2024 | Global Sinophonia 13 - Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China | Professor Ying Qian (Associate Professor, Columbia University) HOST & DISCUSSANT: Dr. Kenny NG |
| 8 March 2024 | Global Sinophonia 12- Women Make Waves in Sinophone World Cinema | Professor Zhen Zhang (Professor, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University) HOST: Dr. Kenny NG |
| 6 March 2024 | Global Sinophonia 11 - What Remains Invisible When Chinese Science Fiction Reached the Big Screen? The Wandering Earth and Its Unseen Abysse | Professor Mingwei Song (Professor of Chinese Literature at Wellesley College) HOST: Dr. Kenny NG |
| 1 March 2024 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - In Demand/ On Demand | Dr. Feng-Mei Heberer (Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema Studies, New York University) HOST: Professor ZHU Ying |
| 1 February 2024 | Global Sinophonia 10 - History out of focus: Chinatown Film Culture and the issue of perspective | Dr. Kim Khavar Fahlstedt (writer and Assistant Professor of Film and Media History, Orebro University, Sweden) HOST: Dr. Kenny NG |
| 19 January 2024 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - World Socialist Cinema: Alliances, Affinities, and Solidarities of the Global Cold War | Dr. Masha Salazkina (Professor of film studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada) HOST: Professor ZHU Ying |
| 17 October 2023 | How Australia Surfed the Nordic Noir Wave | Professor Susan Turnbull (Senior Professor of Communication and Media, University of Wollongong, Australia) |
| 26 September 2023 | Current Influences and Future Direction The New Korean Wave in the Digital Platform Era | Professor Dal Yong Jin (Distinguished SFU Professor) |
| GST Journal Newsletter SEPT 2022-May 2023 issue | ||
| FMIR Newsletter 5 | ||
| 25 May 2023 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Political Documentary in the "Other" Europe | Professor Dina Iordanova (Emeritus Professor, University of St. Andrews UK) |
| 27 April 2023 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - WEChat Ethnography: From Hype to Reality Check | Professor Haiqing YU (ARC Future Fellow (2021-2025) and Vice-Chancellor’s Principal Research Fellow at the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University) |
| 26 April 2023 | Global Sinophonia 9 - Screening of A Life in Six Chapters and Sharing Documenting China in Hong Kong | Dr. S. Louisa Wei |
| 19 April 2023 | Global Sinophonia 8 - Narrating the People in Hong Kong Cinema | Film Director Jun LI |
| 20 March 2023 | Global Sinophonia 7 - Screening: Homecoming, Sharing with Director Yim Ho and Professor Ching May Bo | Film Director Yim Ho Professor Ching May Bo |
| 8 March 2023 | Global Sinophonia 6 - Screening: The Shalin Temple and Sharing: The Making of Shaolin Temple and Jet Li | Mr. Sze Yeung Ping (Assistant Film Director of "The Shaolin Temple" (1982)) |
| 8, 20 March 2023 and 19, 26 April 2023 | Global Sinophonia Series - A Missing Hong Kong - China Film Chapter, film screenings & discussions | Assistant Film Director, Mr. Sze Yeung Ping (施揚平) Film Director Yim Ho Professor Ching May Bo Film Director, Jun Li (李駿碩) Professor Louisa Wei |
| 2 March 2023 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Méliès Boots: Footwear and Film Manufacturing in Second Industrial Revolution Paris | Professor Matthew Solomon (Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Media; Graduate Program, University of Michigan) |
| 16 February 2023 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Book Talk: Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic | Mike Chinoy (Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the U.S.-China Institute, Former CNN Senior Asia Correspondent, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism) |
| 1 - 2 December 2022 | Graduate Symposium | Kenynote Speaker: Dr. Erin Y. HUANG Panel 1: Discussant - Dr. Jason COE Lucia Lu CHEN, REN Yutian, XIE Rui, Yanjing WU Panel 2: Discussant - Prof. Ellen SEITER LU Tian, Fatima LOCK, Jasmine Yuan ZHU, Rajat SHARMA Panel 3: Dr. Ruepert CAO ZHANG Yiyuan, ZHU Zixuan, Dongli CHEN< Linda Huixian OU, TO Kei Chi |
| 2 December 2022 | Global Sinophonia 5 - Book Talk - "Dreadful Desires: The Uses of Love in Neoliberal China" | Professor Charlie Yi ZHANG (Associate Professor) |
| 1 December 2022 | Global Sinophonia 4 - Islanding: Ocean Media and the Aesthetics of Desertedness in the South China Sea | Professor Erin Y. Huang (Assistant Professor) |
| 25 November 2022 | Global Sinophonia 3 - Screening of "Memories To Choke On, Drinks To Wash Them Down" Post-screening Sharing | Kate Reilly Leung Ming-kai |
| 18 November 2022 | Global Sinophonia 2 - Screening of "Hong Kong 1942" Sharing - Five Guys who made a Hong Kong historical drama movie | Graig McCourry Dr. Grace Yan-yan Mak |
| 28 October 2022 | Global Sinophonia 1 - THY LAB (旲堂): A 9-Years Performative Free Cinema Theatre inside a Sham Shui Po Rooftop Slum (天台屋) | Dr. Alberto Gerosa (Adjunct Assistant Professor, CUHK) |
| 27 October 2022 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - The Untold Story of North Korean Cinema in the PRC | Professor Chris Berry (Professor of Film Studies at King's College) |
| 3 November 2022 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Book Talk: Bombay Hustle - making movies in a colonial city | Dr. Debashree Mukherjee (Center for Comparative Media; Film & Media Program, School of the Arts; Institute for Research on Women, Gender, & Sexuality (IRWGS) Columbia University) |
| 29 September 2022 | Academic Talks hosted by "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Prof. King will discuss the implications of artificial intelligence for the study of humour | Professor Rob King, Associate Professor (Center for Comparative Media - Columbia University) |
| FMIR Newsletter 4 | ||
| 12 May 2022 | A Series of Talks to celebrate the launch of "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Book Talk – Utopian Fuins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era, Book Talk | Professor Jie Li (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard’s Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations) |
| 1 April 2022 | A Series of Talks to celebrate the launch of "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Back to the Future: Exploring Artificial Intelligences Creative Potential Through Film Historiography Talk details | Dr. Marina Hassapopoulou (Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU) |
| 10 March 2022 | A Series of Talks to celebrate the launch of "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Key Concepts for Investigating Streaming Video Talk details | Professor Amanda D. Lotz (Professor and Leader of the Transforming Media Industries Research Program in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology) |
| 3 March 2022 | A Series of Talks to celebrate the launch of "Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images" - Book Talk – Dreams of Flight: The Great Escape in American Film and Culture Book Talk details | Professor Dana Polan (Professor of Cinema Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University) |
| 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 (Associate Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| Book Talk Details | Dr. Kenny K.K. Ng (Associate Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) | |
| 15 Oct 2021 | Master Class: Streaming Upstream: 7 Fragments on "Specialized" Storytelling in the Current Digital Landscape | Professor James Schamus (former CEO of Focus Features, Professor of Professional Practice, Film, Columbia University School of the Arts) |
| Master Class details | Professor James Schamus (former CEO of Focus Features, Professor of Professional Practice, Film, Columbia University School of the Arts) | |
| FMIR Newsletter 3 | ||
| 17 Jun 2021 | Book Talk: Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks Voice, Ethnicity, Power | Dr. Dorothy Wai Sim Lau (Assistant Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| 25 May 2021 | Work about work: Digital storytelling and digital labor | Dr. Michael Mandiberg (Professor of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island/ CUNY) |
| 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 (Associate Professor in the Department of Radio-TV-Film and Co-Director of the Center for Entertainment and Media Industries at the University of Texas at Austin) |
| 1 Apr 2021 | Film Noir as a Moving Target: Its Constantly-evolving Storytelling Practices | Prof. William Luhr (Professor of English at Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey) |
| 9 Mar 2021 | Platform Capitalism and the Future of Television Streaming | Prof. Ellen Seiter (Nenno Endowed Chair, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California) |
| 25 Jan 2021 | Screening of “Those 4 Years” Q & A with the film director Dr. Joe Thomas Karackattu | Dr. Joe Thomas (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras) |
| 25 Nov 2020 | Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China | Dr. Margaret Hillenbrand (Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture at the University of Oxford) |
| FMIR Newsletter 2 | ||
| 28-30 Jan 2020 | Global Storytelling Symposium | 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. |
| 5 Nov 2019 | “The Primary Sources of the “Magic” of Art” Eisenstein and East Asian Art | Prof. Helen Grace (Professor at the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, University of Sydney) Moderator: Dr. Lo Wai Luk |
| 30 Oct 2019 | The Politics of Sino-Hollywood Negotiation: Trump’s Trade War, Presidential Elections and Hong Kong | Prof. Ying Zhu (Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| 11 Oct 2019 | The First Golden Age of Hong Kong Cinema: Integrating East and Weat, Old and New, North and South | Mr. Sam Ho (Curator, Researcher, Teacher, Writer & Critic) |
| 26 Sep 2019 | Singing, Not in vain…/ Making Meaning Through Song & Dance in Bollywood | Prof. Arun Gupta (Senior Professor of Film & Video at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India) Moderator: Dr. Kenny Ng |
| 24 Sep 2019 | “Watch Great Movies!” “Dangal” (2016) | Prof. Arun Gupta (Senior Professor of Film & Video at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India) Moderator: Prof. Ying Zhu |
| Saare Jahan Se Achha… (Better than Rest Of The World…)/ Constructing Ideas of Nation and Identity in Bollywood | Prof. Arun Gupta (Senior Professor of Film & Video at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India) 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 (Associate Professor of Media and Culture at Berea College, USA) |
| 17 Apr 2019 | Methodologies and Approaches to the Study of Fandom: My Research Journey | Prof. Anthony Fung (Professor, the School of Art and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| 12 Feb 2019 | Master Class: The Tectonics of Humanity Documentary Film Retrospective Discussion | Christian Frei (Swiss filmmaker, Associate Lecturer on Reflection Competence at the University of St. Gallen) |
| 25 Jan 2019 | Book Talk: "Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture" | Dr. Dorothy Lau (Assistant Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| 13 Dec 2018 | Mo Yan and His Literature Hometown | Prof. Zhang Tongdao (Head of Documentary Centre, School of Arts & Communication, Beijing Normal University) |
| 5 Dec 2018 | Director: Yang Ming Ming (Film Director) Actress: Luna Kwok (Professional Actress) | |
| 6 Nov 2018 | From "Fifty-Five Days at Peking" to "Morning Sun" A Scholar of Modern Chinese History's Reflections on Film | Prof. Jeff Wasserstrom (Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine) |
| 19 Oct 2018 | Transforming the Liminal Hero: Border-Crossing Interconnections in the Taking of the Tiger Mountain (2014) and its Textual Pedigree | Prof. Wang Zhuoyi (Associate Professor of East Asian Language and Literatures at Hamilton College) |
| 27 Jun 2018 | Documentary Film: Regional Theoretical & Political Parameters -Day 3 Private Screening of "Island" – Directed by Dr. Steven Eastwood | Panel 1: Prof. Ian Aitken (Chair), Prof. Tim Barnard, Prof. Peter Bloom, Dr. Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes, Dr. Sandeep Ray, Dr. Tom Rice Panel 2: Dr. Dorothy Lau (Chair), Dr. Jenny Chamarette, Dr. Tiago de Luca, Dr. Cecilia Mello, Dr. Richard Rushton |
| 26 Jun 2018 | Documentary Film: Regional Theoretical & Political Parameters - Day 2 Free Screening of "Vanished Archives" - Directed by Ms. Lo Yan Wai Connie | Panel 1: Dr. Kenny Ng (Chair), Dr. Chao Shi Yan, Dr. Gao Qian, Dr. Xu Yaping Apple, Dr. Jessica Yeung, Dr. Zhang Zhen Panel 2: Dr. Chao Shi Yan (Chair), Dr. Evans Chan, Ms. Bonnie Chiu, Prof. Gina Marchetti, Dr. Judith Pernin, Prof. Carlos Rojas |
| 25 Jun 2018 | Documentary Film: Regional Theoretical & Political Parameters - Day 1 Free Screening of "Raise the Umbrellas" - Directed by Dr. Evans Chan | Panel 1: Dr. LO Wai Luk (Chair),Ms. Angelina Chen,Ms. Tammy Cheung, Ms. Lo Yan Wai Connie, Dr. Kenny Ng, Dr. Winnie Yee Panel 2: Dr. Choi Jung Bong (Chair), Dr. P. Kerim Friedman, Dr. Kim Jihoon, Dr. Ma Ran, Prof. Markus Nornes, Prof. Akiyama Tamako |
| 30 May 2018 | Screening of "Anthropocene" (directed by Mr. Steve Bradshaw) A screening of the conference "The Anthropocene and Beyond – Towards a Shared Narrativity in Interdisciplinary Research" by Hong Kong Shue Yan University (sponsored by the Academy of Film, HKBU) | |
| 13 Apr 2018 | "What is it like to work in Hollywood?": Making of Consensus Reality (Do It Yourself!) | Mr. Steve Peterson (filmmaker) |
| 23 Mar 2018 | Docu-Drama and American Cold War Propaganda in the Philippines | Dr. José B. Capino (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| 22 Jan 2018 | Shaw Brothers in Singapore: Filmmaking at the End of Empire | Prof. Timothy P. Barnard (Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore) |
| 1 Dec 2017 | Conversation with Michel Hazanavicius | Mr. Michel Hazanavicius (OSCAR winning film director) |
| 17 Nov 2017 | Free Enterprise on Film: Aims of Industry, Economic Propaganda & the Development of a Neoliberal Cinema | Dr. Scott Anthony (Assistant Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
| 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 (Senior Lecturer, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| 7 Apr 2017 | Lifeworld Series & The Phenomenalist-Realist Film | Mr. Joni Gutierrez (PhD (Film), Hong Kong Baptist University) |
| 13 Mar 2017 | The Independent Chinese Film Movement | Dr. Judith Pernin (Associate Doctoral Graduate at the Centre for research on Contemporary China) |
| 17 Oct 2016 | Special Collections: Behind The Scenes | Mr. Warren Sherk (Manager of the Special Collections at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Margaret Herrick Library in Beverly Hills, California, USA) |
