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During my fellowship residency in Berlin, I will undertake two tasks. The first is to carry out a trans-socialist comparative study by researching science education films produced in the DDR, now held in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv (Berlin) and the Filmmuseum Potsdam. While conducting research and writing, I eagerly look forward to year-long exchange with other Fellows with different disciplinary expertise. Such interdisciplinary cross-pollination is precisely what I need to strengthen my book; I am confident that my research expertise will also contribute to other Fellows’ work. My second task during the residency is to draft three papers based on archival research, which will be presented at conferences on media studies, environmental studies, and Asian studies. The feedback will enable me to revise the papers for publication and to further develop them into the backbone of my book.
Recommended Reading
Wang, Yiman. Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood. University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
–. To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World. University of California Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.189.
–. “People vs. ‘God of Plague’: Socialist China’s Anti-zoonotic Campaign Media as Environmental Media.” In “Cinezoonosis”, ed. Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Jaimie Baron, and Priya Jaikumar. Special issue, Journal of Environmental Media 4 (2023): 147–166. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00107_1.
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2026/2027
Yiman Wang, Ph.D.
Professor of Film and Digital Media
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. in Anglo-American Literature and Comparative Literature, Nanjing University, M.A. in Comparative Literature, Peking University, Ph.D. in Critical Theory and Film Studies, Duke University
Arbeitsvorhaben
Apocalyptic Education and Its Environmental Unconscious: Trans-Socialist Science Education Films and Campaign Media
My new book project, Apocalyptic Education and Its Environmental Unconscious, studies a so-far understudied yet hegemonic media phenomenon, namely, the socialist state-sponsored science education film and what I call the broader “campaign media” landscape. By unpacking the interactions between Mao’s (post)apocalyptic imaginary and the quotidian educational “campaign media,” this book traces how narratives of the making and unmaking of a life-world combined to produce socialist biopolitics and environmentalism. Such destruction-creation entanglement holds important lessons for our reckoning with today’s global war ravages and the Anthropocene crisis. Mobilizing science and technology studies, environmental humanities, and film and media studies, this book makes three major contributions. It reengages with Cold War cultural politics to anchor the rapidly growing environmental media studies in history, biopolitics, and geopolitics; it offers a trans-socialist and trans-disciplinary method; and it reframes the Anthropocene debate by refocusing on socialist developmentalism.During my fellowship residency in Berlin, I will undertake two tasks. The first is to carry out a trans-socialist comparative study by researching science education films produced in the DDR, now held in the Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv (Berlin) and the Filmmuseum Potsdam. While conducting research and writing, I eagerly look forward to year-long exchange with other Fellows with different disciplinary expertise. Such interdisciplinary cross-pollination is precisely what I need to strengthen my book; I am confident that my research expertise will also contribute to other Fellows’ work. My second task during the residency is to draft three papers based on archival research, which will be presented at conferences on media studies, environmental studies, and Asian studies. The feedback will enable me to revise the papers for publication and to further develop them into the backbone of my book.
Recommended Reading
Wang, Yiman. Remaking Chinese Cinema: Through the Prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood. University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
–. To Be an Actress: Labor and Performance in Anna May Wong’s Cross-Media World. University of California Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.189.
–. “People vs. ‘God of Plague’: Socialist China’s Anti-zoonotic Campaign Media as Environmental Media.” In “Cinezoonosis”, ed. Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa, Jaimie Baron, and Priya Jaikumar. Special issue, Journal of Environmental Media 4 (2023): 147–166. https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00107_1.