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Chinese Independent Cinema in Transformation: Visual Politics in Perspective

Research Project

Project/Area Number 22K00230
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 01070:Theory of art practice-related
Research InstitutionNagoya University

Principal Investigator

馬 然  名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 准教授 (80623446)

Project Period (FY) 2022-04-01 – 2026-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
KeywordsChinese cinema / independent cinema / arthouse cinema / film festival studies / Sinophone studies / translocality / affect study / border studies / Chinese indie cinema / Chinese art cinema / cultural politics / institutionalization / film festival network / film studies / Chinese-language cinema / Chinese film industry / visual politics
Outline of Research at the Start

This project firstly maps out the trajectories of diversification, institutionalization, and marketization of Chinese independent filmmaking in relation to the global/regional/national mediascapes. Secondly, it interrogates the visual politics of the independent works by highlighting their aesthetic experimentations and the drastically-changing sectors of production, distribution, and circulation/exhibition.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

I was able to publish a few research outputs, including English-language journal articles and book chapters. I also conducted field trips to Beijing in the summer of 2023, and to an international symposium Chinese Independent Cinema Archive at Newcastle University, the UK, which have greatly contributed to several of my ongoing research agendas on contemporary Chinese arthouse cinema and the transforming visual politics of Chinese independent films. My research has been further enhanced while I am staying at Cambridge under Harvard-Yenching Institute scholarship. Not only I went to give talks at New York University and Yale University. Also, part of the research output will be presented at a workshop held at Harvard in late April 2024.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

Part of the research plans were successfully delivered, such as the already published journal articles and book chapters, and those that are scheduled to be published. The workshop that I organize at Harvard-Yenching Institute will also be the first step for me to consolidate my plan for publication, in the format of an edited volume, or a special journal issue. Meanwhile, my visiting scholarship at Harvard has benefited me in the sense that I have access to important research sources, including meeting film scholars and attending various research events. My research trips to Beijing and Newcastle also granted me crucial opportunities to meet and interview filmmakers and other professionals such as curators and producers, which would lay grounds for my current writing.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

Once I am back in Asia in mid June, 2024, I plan to visit China (to cities such as Xining and Beijing) and attend important film festivals and events there to catch up with the recent developments in contemporary art film culture. A second direction will be my publication plan for an edited volume or special issue on Sinophone cinema and media, which is related to the Harvard-Yenching Institute Workshop that I am organizing. Thirdly, I will also push forward several of my own writing projects and hopefully that I could publish them within financial year 2024.

Report

(2 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2024 2023 2022

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (10 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results,  Invited: 5 results)

  • [Journal Article] It is all about qingnian dianying: Post-independent Chinese cinema, auteurism, and the FIRST International Film Festival2023

    • Author(s)
      Shan Tong, Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Chinese Cinemas

      Volume: - Issue: 3 Pages: 213-235

    • DOI

      10.1080/17508061.2023.2286861

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Toward Archiveology: Regarding Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Essay Films.2023

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Journal Title

      The (Im)possibility of Art Archives: Theories and Experience in/from Asia (Kindle version)

      Volume: - Pages: 0-0

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Ruan chunshi de sanwen dianying yu danganlun2023

    • Author(s)
      Ma Ran
    • Journal Title

      Yishu dangdan(ku) de keneng yu bukeneng: yazhou de lilun yu jingyan

      Volume: - Pages: 307-324

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [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 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] “Yamashiro Chikako’s Eco-Fantasy:Toward an Ecosophy of the Island/s”2024

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Society of Median and Cinema Studies (Boston, USA)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Un/bounding the Great Wall:Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s2024

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Harvard-Yenching Institute (Boston, USA)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Yamashiro Chikako’s Eco-Fantasy:Toward an Ecosophy of the Island/s2024

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Yale University
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Affective-Scape/ing in Zhang Lu’s Inter-Asian Quartet2024

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Association of Asian Studies (virtual)
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Border-Crossing Asia2023

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      New York University
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Affective-Scape/ing in Zhang Lu’s Inter-Asian Quartet2023

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      Enhance Asian visual culture studies talk series, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Yanbian as Method: Border-crossing Chaoxianzu (Korean-Chinese) On Screen and The Poetics/Politics of Dis-Attachment2023

    • Author(s)
      Ran Ma
    • Organizer
      the Association for Studies of Culture and Representation, Tokyo University
    • Related Report
      2023 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 Research-status 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 Research-status 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 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited

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Published: 2022-04-19   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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