Shulman Lecture - Weihong Bao

Event time: 
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 5:00pm
Location: 
Whitney Humanities Center See map
53 Wall Street, Room 208
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Weihong Bao

University of California Berkeley

The Cloud of Doubt: Making Sense of the Sensible in Postwar Chinese Cinema

Weihong Bao
is Associate Professor of Film and Media & East Asian Languages and
Cultures at UC Berkeley. She has published widely on comparative media history and
theory, early cinema, war and modernity, affect theory, propaganda theory and practice,
and Chinese language cinema. Her book
Fiery Films: The Emergence of an Affective
Medium in China, 1915–1945
(2015) received honorable mention for the Modernist
Studies Association Best Book Prize. She is working on a new book, “Background
Stories: The Discovery of Environment in Chinese Film and Theater,” which examines
set design theory and practice in relation to the rise of environmental thinking from early
to mid- twentieth-century China.