The 29th China Film Studies Doctoral Forum was held at CUC on October 23. The forum was co-sponsored by Contemporary Cinema and School of Theater, Film and Television of Communication University of China (CUC).
Group photo of the participants
During the one-day forum, which officials and pundits of cinematic industry attended, more than 40 doctoral students from Tsinghua University (THU), Beijing Normal University (BNU), Fudan University (FUDAN), CUC and other universities and research institutes shared their views on the basic topic of "Youth-Contemporary: New Observations on Film and Cultural Competitiveness". The results of the research were shared.
Curator Sun Xianghui is giving an online speech
Sun Xianghui,curator of China Film Archive, said that the Chinese Film Studies Doctoral Forum had a long history and remarkable achievements, and had tapped and cultivated many research forces in Chinese film studies in her online speech. She said that the PhD students selected for the forum were able to incorporate the excellent Chinese traditional culture into their research around the theme, which deserved recognition. All doctoral students should take the important speech of Xi Jinping ,General Secretaryof the CPC Central Committee on July 1 as their guide and continue to contribute to the research of the academic project of Chinese film school.
Professor Zhang Zongwei is giving the speech
Zhang Zongwei, deputy dean of School of Theater, Film and Television of CUC, introduced the basic situation of this forum in his speech. He said that this was the second China Film Studies Doctoral Forum, which arouse attention from sides of society and attracted the doctoral students to submit their papers, held in CUC. The topics of the forum were cutting-edge and significant, while the sub-forums highlighted the diversified perspectives.
Chief editor Huangfu Yichuan is presiding over the opening ceremony
Huangfu Yichuan, head of Contemporary Cinema, presided over the opening ceremony of the forum. He said that the forum was both an academic platform and a platform for the academic construction and future development of Chinese cinema. With an eye on the future development, the theoretical construction of Chinese cinema should be more locally based and establish the subjectivity of Chinese cinema. The future of Chinese cinema lies in the youth, and so does the future of Chinese cinema research.
Some of the participating doctoral students
In the sub-forum of "Research on Young Film Directors", Wang Ruoxuan and Wang Mingcheng, doctoral students of CUC, as well as Han Guidong, doctoral student of The State University of New Jersey, introduced their research findings on local culture, ethnic style and narrative ethics reflected in the creation of young directors' films on local themes. Shi Dunmin, a doctoral student of CUC, presented his research findings on the resurgence of poetry of young directors' images. Wang Yaxi, a doctoral student from Xiamen University, Chen Xiyang, a doctoral student from Northwest University, and Chen Xinye, a doctoral student from FUDAN, discussed the artistic creation ecology of young directors, taking Japanese young female directors, new western cinema, and Tibetan new wave cinema respectively as the starting point. Liu Xiaodong, a doctoral student of Cheongju University, studied young director Li Ruijun's thinking and art of film space design from the perspective of film and television anthropology.
Professor Zhang Zongwei is commenting on discussions of students
Professor Zhang Zongwei commented that young scholars who participated in the sub-forum took traditional Chinese culture and aesthetics as the core ideological resources to read and interpret the films of young Chinese directors, and also consciously used multiple theories to conduct research, which is a positive practice of "Remembering the origin, absorbing the foreign, and facing the future" as repeatedly emphasized by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
In the sub-forum of "Youth Culture and Film Market Research", Deng Yachuan, a doctoral student from BNU, observed youth culture from the perspective of the integration of film and tourism. Huang Mao, a doctoral student from CUC, used the cultural connotation of "father and son" imagery in Chinese science fiction films to sort out the cultural tradition of Chinese science fiction, while Yi Lin and Chen Lijun discussed contemporary youth culture from the perspectives of "cultural rituals" and "youth subculture" respectively. The film is an in-depth discussion of contemporary Chinese youth films from the perspectives of "cultural rituals" and "youth subculture". Wang MuGeng, a PhD student from Xiamen University, discussed how to improve the innovative performance of Chinese film co-productions from the perspective of intellectual heterogeneity.
Professor Zhu Hong is making comments
Zhu Hong, professor of School of Theater, Film and Television of CUC, commented that young scholars should have more deep insights about how to connect Western theories with China's current social reality, and at the same time use more Chinese theoretical research to explain Chinese film creation, so as to better promote theoretical research in cinema.
In the sub-forum of "New Media, New Technologies and New Forms of Film", Sun Kejia, Wen Jing and Xu Xiaoyuan, PhD students from THU, and Zhong Hansheng, PhD student from BNU, presented their research on new forms of images such as interactive films, interactive dramas, post-human films, and ready-made films. Zhong Zhihong, a PhD student at Beijing Film Academy, discussed game engines and virtual body generation, while Xiong Yue, a PhD student of Wuhan University, and Wang Xiaotong, a PhD student of Southeast University, discussed topics such as body schema and narrative structure in virtual reality images. Zhou Houyi, a doctoral student from FUDAN, analyzed the "disembodiment" of embodied media.
Professor Hou Jun is making comments
In his review, Hou Jun, professor of School of Theater, Film and Television of CUC, said that the broad vision presented in the doctoral thesis allowed us to have a better understanding of the multifaceted body of cinema. The extended, expanded, changing and even alienated state of cinema itself allows young scholars to explore cinema from post-modern, post-human, post-ontological and post-subject contexts.
In the sub-forum of "Youth and Culture on the Screen", PhD students Zhong Mengqi and Liu Lisha from CUC and Sun Lizhen from the Nanjing Normal University discussed nihilism, emotional mechanism and cultural connotation in Chinese youth films and the writing of reality in films about young girls, respectively. Wei Mengxue, a doctoral student from Zhejiang University, discussed the imagery of "death of youth" in Chinese films. CUC PhD students Wu Anyang and Zhu Mulan discussed the marriage of urban youth in Chinese cinema and the image of youth in Inner Mongolian cinema respectively. Gao Naze, a doctoral student from Nanjing University, discussed the revision of "local" film concepts in the 1920s by "foreign" young students.
Vice editor-in-chief, Zhang Kenyan is making comments
Zhang Wenyan, vice editor-in-chief of Contemporary Cinema, said in her review that this group of students chose the topic from the viewpoint of "Youth-Contemporary" very closely. Although each essay focuses on youth culture, the research perspectives are very different, ranging from cultural theory to film history, and the research methods are also very rich.
Students are listening to the conclusion of the forum from Vice President Zhang Zongwei
In the conclusion of the forum, Prof. Zhang Zongwei said that the doctoral students spoke enthusiastically, thought deeply, and were full of insightful opinions, showing their vigor, courage, sharpness, and talent. The sincerity, positive energy and vitality bursting out from such a collision of ideas is the inherent power to enhance the cultural competitiveness of Chinese films.
Editor: Zheng Shuyu
Advisor:Zhang Xu
