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Sinophone Imaginaries in Contemporary Asian Visual Cultures

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K12263
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 01070:Theory of art practice-related
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

Ma Ran  名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (80623446)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
KeywordsSinophone studies / Chinese-language cinema / diasporic cinema / translocalism / independent cinema / inter-Asian studies / mobility / border-crossing / Cinema Studies / Sinophone Studies / Asian Cinema Culture / Transnational Cinema / film studies / auteur cinema / arthouse / Diaspora / visual culture / Sinophone / Chineseness / Visual Cultures / aesthetics / politics
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Despite that my project was extended for another half a year due to the slow progress of my translation plan, overall the last year of this project also saw some satisfactory progress. Not only I was able to work on translating my book into Japanese (expected to be published with Japanese publisher), but also this project was smoothly bridged with the new JSPS project that I work on. Over the 4 years' span, I consider my project a successful one. With the Kakenhi, I was able to participate conferences and conduct many field trips abroad and in Japan, which laid solid basis for my research work and the final publication of my monograph, Independent Filmmaking across Border in Contemporary Asia. Besides, I was also able to hold both online and offline screening and talk events related to my research, which contributed to a wider range of publics and transnational community of film lovers and researchers.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

My project has facilitated a deeper understanding of critical transnational cinema studies.The events I participated and organized contributed to a wider range of publics, fostering greater awareness and appreciation of independent filmmaking across borders in contemporary Asia.

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (32 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (12 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Open Access: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 9 results) Presentation (18 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 14 results,  Invited: 6 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Reminiscences of a Journey to Okinawa: Landscape Film as Essay, and Takamine Go’s Okinawan Dream Show (1974)2023

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      Non-Fiction 05: The Obsolete and The Resurrected: Archaeological Cinema in Asia

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Reminiscences of a journey to Okinawa: landscape film as essay, and Takamine Go’s Okinawan Dream Show (1974)2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

      Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Pages: 4-21

    • DOI

      10.1080/17564905.2021.1914887

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] In/visibility in post-war Okinawan images 22021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma & Kosuke Fujiki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

      Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 97-98

    • DOI

      10.1080/17564905.2021.2001143

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] In/visibility in post-war Okinawan images 12021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma & Kosuke Fujiki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

      Volume: 1 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-3

    • DOI

      10.1080/17564905.2021.1930474

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] To Think Like an Archipelago”--Regarding the Japanese-Chinese Independent Film Culture Connections (1989-2020)2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      Independent Chinese Cinema Observer

      Volume: 1 Pages: 8-21

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Re-emerging voices and re-imagined landscapes: an interview with Chikako Yamashiro2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma & Kosuke Fujiki
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema

      Volume: 2 Issue: 2 Pages: 138-154

    • DOI

      10.1080/17564905.2021.1985357

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] “Kim Soyoung’s “Exile Trilogy”:“Retro” Toward an Affective Archive”2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      philoSOPHIA: a Journal of TransContinental Feminism

      Volume: 10 Pages: 145-153

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] ‘Eigasai Inside Out: Programming Japanese Cinema at Overseas and Japanese Film Festivals Today’2020

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      The Japanese Cinema Book

      Volume: 0 Pages: 164-178

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 故郷的風景:高嶺剛的沖繩夢幻秀2019

    • Author(s)
      馬然
    • Journal Title

      ACT: Art Critique of Taiwan/藝術觀點

      Volume: Issue No. 78 Pages: 82-91

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 記憶と身体を乗り越える――東北ドキュメンタリー三部作とポスト・福島ドキュメンタリー2019

    • Author(s)
      馬然
    • Journal Title

      <ポスト3.11〉メディア言説再考

      Volume: 0 Pages: 283-302

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Asian Documentary Connections and “The International Film Festival Short Circuit”: Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (YIDFF) as a Case Study2018

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Journal Title

      The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema

      Volume: 0 Pages: 171-189

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Discussion and Interview: towards the Im/possible "Chinese-in-Japan" Cinema [Lun Tan: Li Ying de lisanyingxiang he bu/keneng de zairihuaren dianying ]2018

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Journal Title

      Stage and Screen Review (Chinese)

      Volume: 06 Pages: 121-133

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Mentors, DV Cameras, and the Film Festivals: A Minor Transnational History of Chinese Independent Documentary2022

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Visible Evidence 2022: Images of History
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Kabukicho; Annaijin, Transnational Affectivity, and the “Chinese-in-Japan” Media Reportage in the New Millennium2022

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      American Comparative Literature Association Seminar: Rethinking Heterogeneity: Sinophone Reportage and Beyond
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Border-crossing Bodies and Affects: the Politics of Being the Other in Japan within East Asian Visual Cultures2022

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Spinning East Asia Series Ⅱ:A Net (Dis)entangled
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Affective-Scape/ing in Zhang Lu’s Inter-Asian Quartet2022

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Enhance Asian visual culture studies talk series
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Seeing in the Dark: Asia’s Independent Cinema Spaces in the Midst of Uncertainties2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Yale University, Council on East Asian Studies
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Quietly Dreaming: Zhang Lu’s Affective-Scaping2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference of Asian Studies (AAS), Virtual Conference
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] It is All About “Youth Cinema” (qingnian dianying)--Independent Cinema, New Auteur, and the FIRST International Film Festival2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma & Shan Tong
    • Organizer
      Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present…and Future?
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Translocalizing Chinese Art Cinema (yishu dianying)--the “In-Betweenness” of the Film Auteur (dianying zuozhe) vis-&#224;-vis the Sino-Japanese Film Connections”2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Research Workshop on Contemporary Chinese Art-House Cinema, Online
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] I Am Li Xiaomu”: Transnational Affect In Chinese-in-japan Documentary In The New Millennium2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Visible Evidence: Documentary And Democracy In Crisis
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Quietly Dreaming: Zhang Lu’s Affective-Scaping”2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Annual Conference of Asian Studies (AAS), Virtual Conference,
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “It is All About “Youth Cinema” (qingnian dianying)&#8212;Independent Cinema, New Auteur, and the FIRST International Film Festival”2021

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma, Shan Tong
    • Organizer
      Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present…and Future?,
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Save the Cinema? In (Post-)Pandemic Japan&#8211;an Incomplete Observation”2020

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      AFA Online Symposium: An (In)Hospitable World
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Crosscurrents:Re/Mapping the Yangtze Landscape in Contemporary Chinese Films and Media2019

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      AAS-in-Asia Conference, Bangkok, Thailand
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Eigasai Inside Out: Programming Japanese Cinema at Overseas and Japanese Film Festivals Today2019

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      International Film Festival and Restoration Forum, Xiamen University, China
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Realigning Chinese Independent Cinema (1989-2019): Intersecting Histories, Aesthetics, and Politics2019

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      The International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Leiden, the Netherlands
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] the Appearance of Okinawa in Takamine Go and Yamashiro Chikako's Moving Image2018

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      AAS-in-Asia Conference, 2018 New Delhi - Asia in Motion: Geographies and Genealogies
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Homecoming Myanmar: Midi Z (Zhao Deyin)’s Migration Machine and Precarious Filmmaking2018

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      DOCUMENTARY FILM: REGIONAL, THEORETICAL & POLITICAL PARAMETERS
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Li Ying’s Films of Displacement: Toward an Im/Possible Chinese-in-Japan Cinema2018

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Organizer
      The 12th Association for Cultural Studies "Crossroads in Cultural Studies"
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Japanese Visual Media: Politicizing the Screen2021

    • Author(s)
      Jennifer Coates; Eyal Ben-Ari; Ran Ma et. al.
    • Total Pages
      232
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9780367722975
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia2019

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Total Pages
      278
    • Publisher
      Amsterdam University Press
    • ISBN
      9789462986640
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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