Author of Playing to the World's Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV

http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10846.html

COURSES
CA 450 History of Broadcasting
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CA 458 Global Media Cultures
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CA 557 Contemporary Media Industries
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CA 663 Media and Cultural Theory II
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CA 950 Special Topic: Media and Modernity
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CA 950 Special Topic: Culture Industries
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CA 950 Special Topic: Globalization of Media
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IS 601 Introduction to Global Studies
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DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
Right now I'm working on a book manuscript entitled, Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Globalization. In it I theorize factors that enable particular cities to emerge as centers of media activity during the global era. In particular, I point to 1) logics of accumulation, 2) trajectories of creative migration, and 3) forces of socio-cultural variation as a set of dynamic influences that interact at particular locations under specific historical conditions. Cultural geographies of media capital can offer an innovative approach to the study of media globalization, one that moves beyond national models of analysis that have prevailed for over a century. Media Capital furthermore compares the histories and fortunes of such cities as Hollywood, Hong Kong, Lagos, Miami, and Bombay, showing how the above principles help to explain the conditions under which media institutions tend to flourish. My teaching interests include cultural theory, globalization, media history, media industries, new media, and documentary. I’m also director of the Global Studies program, which is a federally-funded national resource center for international studies. We stage conferences, lectures, and other events, and promote curriculum development concerning global trends and issues.

DEGREES

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990

Masters, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986

A.B., Brown University, 1977

MAJOR HONORS/AWARDS

U.S. Department of Education Title VI Higher Education Grant, 2006-2010

Vilas Research Fellowship, 2003-2005

Fulbright Research Fellowship, 1999-2000

Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities Fellowship, 1992

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPH

Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Globalization.  Blackwell Manifesto series. Blackwell Publishers, in progress.

Co-author with Jane Shattuc, The American Television Industry.  International Screen Industries series. British Film Institute, in progress.

Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV.  University of California Press, 2007.

Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics, Rutgers University Press, 1995.  Communications, Media, and Culture series, George Custen, series editor.

"Packaging Reality: The Influence of Fictional Forms on the Early Development of Television Documentary, 1955-1965," Journalism and Mass Communication Monographs 137 (February 1993).

ANTHOLOGIES

Co-editor with Hemant Shah, Re-Orienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders, in progress.

Co-editor with Lynn Spigel, The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict, Routledge, 1997. American Film Institute Film Reader series.  Charles Wolfe and Edward Branigan, editors.

Co-editor with Richard Ohmann, Gage Averill, David Shumway, and Elizabeth Traube, Making and Selling Culture, Wesleyan University Press, 1996.

BOOK SERIES

Co-editor with Paul McDonald, “International Screen Industries,” British Film Institute (BFI).  Published volumes: European Film Industry (2003), European Television Industry (2005), The Global TV Marketplace (2006). Commissioned volumes: Indian Film Industry, Indian Television Industry, East Asian Film Industry, Greater China Television Industry, Arab Television Industry, American Film Industry, American Television Industry, Home Entertainment Industry.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

“Migrations of Media Capital,” Envisage, October 2005. (Taiwan, translated into Chinese).

“Murdoch’s Dilemma, or ‘What’s the Price of TV in China?’”  Media, Culture and Society 27, no. 2 (2005):  155-175.

*Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Jin Guanjun, Shaoyi Sun, and Zheng Han, eds., New Perspectives on Media Policy: Focus on Asia. Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Press, 2006.

*Honorable mention for best essay among 150 papers presented at "Globalfusion: Reconsidering Globalization and Communication."  University of Texas at Austin, October 2003.

“Media Capital: Towards the Study of Spatial Flows,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 6, no.2 (2003): 203-229.

**Revised and republished as “Media Capitals: Cultural Geographies of Global TV,” in Jan Olsson and Lynn Spigel, eds., Television after TV: Essays on a Medium in Transition. Duke University Press, 2004, pp. 270-302.

*Honorable mention for best essay of the year, Kovacs Essay Award Competition of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2004.

With Shanti Kumar, “Made in India: In Between Music Television and Patriarchy,” Television and New Media 3, no.4 (November 2002): 345-366.

With Anthony Fung, “The Anomalies of Being Faye (Wong): Gender Politics and Cantopop Music,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 5, no.3 (2002): 263-290.

“Connections and Differences: Spatial Dimensions of Television History,” Film and History 30, no. 1 (March 2000): 50-61.

*Reprinted as, “Organizing Difference on Global TV: Television History and Cultural Geography,” in Gary R. Edgerton, ed., Television Histories: Shaping Collective Memory in the Media Age, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2001, pp. 335-356. Anthology was winner of the Ray and Pat Brown National Book Award of the Popular Culture Association.

*Reprinted in Toby Miller, ed., Television: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies, vol. 1, Routledge, 2003, pp.159-176.

“Feminine Desire in the Age of Satellite Television,” Journal of Communication 49, no.2, (Spring 1999): 55-70.

*Reprinted in A. Alexander and J. Hanson, eds., Taking Sides: Mass Media and Society, 7th ed.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

*Reprinted in Michele Hilmes, ed., Connections: A Broadcasting History Reader. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 2002, pp. 357-374.

*Translated into Chinese and reprinted in Modern Communication (the journal of the Communication University of China), no.102 (Spring 2000): 25-32.

Co-author with Christopher Anderson, "Mapping the Ethereal City: Chicago Television, the FCC, and the Politics of Place." Quarterly Review of Film and Video 16, nos. 3-4 (1999): 289-305.

“Images of Trust, Economies of Suspicion: Hong Kong Media after 1997,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 18, no.2 (1998): 281-294.

**Revised and republished as “Television and Trustworthiness in Hong Kong,” in Shanti Kumar and Lisa Parks, eds., Planet TV, New York University Press, 2002.

"Transgressive Imagery on Transnational Television," Contemporary 125 (1998): 40-53 (Chinese translation).

*Reprinted in Tain-dow Lee, ed., Remapping the  Global Mediascape. 
Asia-Pacific Press, 2000, pp. 219-241 (Chinese translation).

"Beyond the Vast Wasteland: The Policy Discourse of Global Television and the Politics of American Empire." Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media 37, no. 2 (Spring 1993): 127-145.

"The Discourse of 'Scientific Anti-Communism' in the 'Golden Age' of Documentary." Cinema Journal 32 (Fall 1992): 3-25.

*Reprinted in Horace Newcomb, Television: The Critical View, 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 46-69. 

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Thinking Globally,” in Alisa Perren and Jennifer Holt, eds., Media Industry Studies. Malden: Blackwell, forthcoming.

“NBC News Documentary: ‘Intelligent Interpretation’ in a Cold War Context,” in Michele Hilmes, ed., NBC: America’s Network. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.

“From Kung Fu to Imperial Court: Chinese Historical Drama,” in Gary Edgerton, ed., Thinking Outside the Box: A Contemporary Television Genre Reader. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2005, pp. 362-387.

“The Future of Chinese Cinema: Some Lessons from Hong Kong and Taiwan,” in Chin-Chuan Lee, ed., Chinese Media, Global Contexts.  NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 237-256.

“From Network to Neo-Network Audiences.” In Michele Hilmes, ed., The Television History Book. London: British Film Institute, 2003, pp. 122-125.

“Globalisation.” In Toby Miller, ed., Television Studies. London: British Film Institute, 2002, pp. 43-46.

"Sweet Comrades: Historical Identities and Popular Culture," in Joseph Man Chan and Bryce McIntyre, eds., In Search of Boundaries: Communication, Nation-States and Cultural Identities. Advances in Communication and Culture series, Ray Heisey, series editor.  Greenwood Publishers, 2002, pp. 264-290. 

“The Crisis in Chinese Film Distribution: No Golden Harvest in Taiwan,” CIBER Case Collection, Center for International Business Education and Research (2002), available at www.ecch.cranfield.ac.uk.

Co-author with Thomas Streeter, “Media” in Richard Maxwell, ed., Culture Works: Essays on the Political Economy of Culture.  Cultural Politics Series, Toby Miller, Bruce Robbins, and Andrew Ross, series editors, University of Minnesota Press, 2001, pp. 225-249.

“Hong Kong Meets Hollywood in the Extranational Arena of the Culture Industries,” in Kwok-Kan Tam and Wimal Dissanayake, eds., Sites of Contestation: Localism, Globalism and Cultural Production in Asia and the Pacific. Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2001, pp. 79-109.

Co-author with Christopher Anderson, “Writing Cultural History: The Challenge of Radio and Television,” in Niels Brügger & Søren Kolstrup, eds., Media History: Theories, Methods, Analysis. Aarhus University Press, 2001.

“Hong Kong and Hollywood: Studying Post-National Television,” in Chen Chin-Ho, ed., Culture Diffusion. Chengchi University Press, Taipei, 2000, pp. 217-246.

“Gatekeeping in the Neo-Network Era,” in Michael Suman and Gabriel Rossman, eds., Advocacy Groups and the Entertainment Industry. Praeger, 2000, pp. 65-76.

"Dynasty in Drag: Imagining Global TV," in Spigel and Curtin, eds., The Revolution Wasn't Televised: Sixties Television and Social Conflict.  Routledge, 1997, pp. 244-262.

"On Edge: Culture Industries in the Neo-Network Era."  In Ohmann, Averill, Curtin, Shumway, and Traube, eds., Making and Selling Culture, Wesleyan University Press, 1996, pp. 181-202.