ICS Lecture: Nicole Talmacs, "The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires"

February 22, 2018

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Page Hall 020 (1810 College Rd)

Add to Calendar 2018-02-22 17:00:00 2018-02-22 18:30:00 ICS Lecture: Nicole Talmacs, "The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires" The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:Nicole TalmacsXi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University"The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires"Flyer: Nicole Talmacs Flyer.pdfAbstract: China’s film industry is touted to become the world’s largest in the very near future. The rise of China’s film industry has taken place alongside China’s rise as a global power. Many of the concerns and desires in the nation’s new found position are arguably reflected in China’s cinema programming and filmmaking. This lecture considers how we might interpret these concerns and desires through a variety of angles. Firstly, the nation’s domestic filmmaking trends; secondly, China’s approval of certain foreign films for theatrical release across the nation; thirdly, Chinese Wanda’s acquisitions of foreign cinema chains; fourthly, the reception of Chinese films abroad; and finally, China’s official film co-production treaties. In combination, the rise of China’s film industry appears less focused on “what the audience wants” and storytelling innovation, and rather focused on balancing two pressing concerns and desires for the nation. These are identified as mobilizing imaginations about social change in China domestically, while containing the messages communicated about who and what China is to a global film market’s audience. Bio: Dr. Nicole Talmacs received her PhD from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2015. In 2016, she took up her current position as a Lecturer in Media and Communications Studies in the School of Film and Television Arts at the Sino-British joint venture institution: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). She is the author of China’s Cinema of Class: Audiences and Narratives (Routledge 2017). Her current research project investigates the challenges commercial Chinese cinema face in the global market through audience testing Chinese films in markets of strategic importance to China. This includes audiences in Australia, the UK, the USA, India, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and China. The project is funded by the XJTLU Research Development Fund. She currently teaches into XJTLU’s Chinese communications, Chinese cinema, and global media communications modules. Free and open to the publicThis event is sponsored by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center. Page Hall 020 (1810 College Rd) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2018-02-22 16:00:00 2018-02-22 17:30:00 ICS Lecture: Nicole Talmacs, "The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires" The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:Nicole TalmacsXi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University"The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires"Flyer: Nicole Talmacs Flyer.pdfAbstract: China’s film industry is touted to become the world’s largest in the very near future. The rise of China’s film industry has taken place alongside China’s rise as a global power. Many of the concerns and desires in the nation’s new found position are arguably reflected in China’s cinema programming and filmmaking. This lecture considers how we might interpret these concerns and desires through a variety of angles. Firstly, the nation’s domestic filmmaking trends; secondly, China’s approval of certain foreign films for theatrical release across the nation; thirdly, Chinese Wanda’s acquisitions of foreign cinema chains; fourthly, the reception of Chinese films abroad; and finally, China’s official film co-production treaties. In combination, the rise of China’s film industry appears less focused on “what the audience wants” and storytelling innovation, and rather focused on balancing two pressing concerns and desires for the nation. These are identified as mobilizing imaginations about social change in China domestically, while containing the messages communicated about who and what China is to a global film market’s audience.  Bio: Dr. Nicole Talmacs received her PhD from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2015. In 2016, she took up her current position as a Lecturer in Media and Communications Studies in the School of Film and Television Arts at the Sino-British joint venture institution: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). She is the author of China’s Cinema of Class: Audiences and Narratives (Routledge 2017). Her current research project investigates the challenges commercial Chinese cinema face in the global market through audience testing Chinese films in markets of strategic importance to China. This includes audiences in Australia, the UK, the USA, India, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and China. The project is funded by the XJTLU Research Development Fund. She currently teaches into XJTLU’s Chinese communications, Chinese cinema, and global media communications modules. Free and open to the publicThis event is sponsored by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.   Page Hall 020 (1810 College Rd) East Asian Studies Center easc@osu.edu America/New_York public

The Institute for Chinese Studies presents the Re-Imagining China's Past and Present Lecture Series:

Nicole Talmacs
Xi'an Jiaotong – Liverpool University

"The Rise of China’s Film Industry: Concerns and Desires"

Flyer: Nicole Talmacs Flyer.pdf

Abstract: China’s film industry is touted to become the world’s largest in the very near future. The rise of China’s film industry has taken place alongside China’s rise as a global power. Many of the concerns and desires in the nation’s new found position are arguably reflected in China’s cinema programming and filmmaking. This lecture considers how we might interpret these concerns and desires through a variety of angles. Firstly, the nation’s domestic filmmaking trends; secondly, China’s approval of certain foreign films for theatrical release across the nation; thirdly, Chinese Wanda’s acquisitions of foreign cinema chains; fourthly, the reception of Chinese films abroad; and finally, China’s official film co-production treaties. In combination, the rise of China’s film industry appears less focused on “what the audience wants” and storytelling innovation, and rather focused on balancing two pressing concerns and desires for the nation. These are identified as mobilizing imaginations about social change in China domestically, while containing the messages communicated about who and what China is to a global film market’s audience.

Bio: Dr. Nicole Talmacs received her PhD from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2015. In 2016, she took up her current position as a Lecturer in Media and Communications Studies in the School of Film and Television Arts at the Sino-British joint venture institution: Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (Suzhou, China). She is the author of China’s Cinema of Class: Audiences and Narratives (Routledge 2017). Her current research project investigates the challenges commercial Chinese cinema face in the global market through audience testing Chinese films in markets of strategic importance to China. This includes audiences in Australia, the UK, the USA, India, Zambia, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and China. The project is funded by the XJTLU Research Development Fund. She currently teaches into XJTLU’s Chinese communications, Chinese cinema, and global media communications modules.

Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by a U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant to The Ohio State University East Asian Studies Center.