Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Biographic Data
| ID | 265448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Hemelryk Donald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie Hemelryk |
| FAMILY NAME | Donald |
| SIGNATURE | DONALD S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9435-7905 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Jie Li, Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists and Audiences in Socialist China
The port-city, the migrant, and the (almost) inevitable dog: Morts vivants and authorial intervention in cinéma-monde
Any plausible categorization of cinéma-monde would have to include a body of Francophone films in which locus, language, and the status of the protagonists are uncertain and/or hybridized. Thus conceived, it is possible to stage, as one aspect of cinéma-monde, an intertextual, place-specific conversation between Agnès Varda’s recent peregrination to the port-city of Le Havre (Villages, Visages [2017]), Aki Kaurismäki’s cinematic fairytale of chil…
Centenarian Memoirs and Vernacular History
This article examines centenarian memoirs as a popular cultural phenomenon and through it the promises of post-reform vernacular history. The argument posits that these memoirs are a genre that has been commercially successful through their transformation of self and historical narratives in the People’s Republic of China, in particular, the transformation of these memoirs from vestiges of state-cultivated intellectual confessions to vernacular c…
The legacy of Laura Marcus in film studies Introduction
Green Hell: Detention, art, and activism in an English landscape
This paper revolves on the carceral practices of Morton Hall IRC (Immigration Removal Centre) and of the role of visual imagery in the campaigns against them. Morton Hall is located in Lincolnshire, a rural county in England with a long history of agricultural innovation. It observes and debates a sense of the dissonance between institution and location that Morton Hall shared with Manus Island in the Pacific, the site of another postcolonial pri…
Transcendent parenting: Raising children in the digital age
A review of Sun Sun Lim's (2020) book, Transcendent Parenting. The review contextualises the reader in the UK during the 2020 pandemic lockdown, contrasting the South-east Asian experience of ubiquitous media with the very uneven provision to children and young people in the UK
Debt, the migrant, and the refugee: Lampedusa on stage
This article discusses Anders Lustgarten’s play, Lampedusa. The play is ostensibly about refugees and the Mediterranean crossing, as well as addressing EU migration, debt, and austerity. The article develops the idea of the debtor in neo-liberal economics suggesting that the refugee is required to become a debtor on settlement. While Lustgarten’s representation of refugees and migrants is not fully realised in that they are not enabled agents in …
Tourism and the Branded City: Film and Identity on the Pacific Rim
Comparing the major Pacific Rim cities of Sydney, Hong Kong and Shanghai, this book examines world city branding. Whilst all three cities compete on the world's stage for events, tourists and investment, they are also at the centre of distinct film traditions and their identities are thus strongly connected with a cinematic impression. Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book not only analyses the city branding of these cities from the more…
Migrant youth and new media in Asia
This chapter offers an overview of key studies and issues regarding new media practices amongst migrant youth in the Asia-Pacific region. Children and young people are usually the most enthusiastic users of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and young migrants in the Asia-Pacific region are no exception. However, their identities as border-transgressors in the throes of maturation make the role of new media especially salient …
Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis
Media in China: New Convergences, New Approaches
Red Aesthetics, Intermediality and the Use of Posters in Chinese Cinema after 1949
This article focuses on the aesthetic and affective techniques of saturation through which posters legitimated the Party-State in Mao’s China by closing the gap between everyday experience and political ideology. Propaganda posters were designed to put into practice the principle of unity, as conceptualised by Mao Zedong. The argument posits that while the “poster” is normally a printed edition of a painting or design intended for mass distributi…
The poetics of the real in Jia Zhangke's 24 City
In a series of films made after Shijie/The World in 2004 – Sanxia haoren/Still Life (2006), Dong (2006) and, most significantly, Er shi si cheng ji/24 City (2008) – Jia Zhangke has charted a vivid and personal engagement with internal migration, social change and class displacement in China since the Reform programme initiated by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. His films have consistently described the alienation of migration and urban encounters, and sho…
Monumental Memories Xu Weixin's Chinese Historical Figures, 1966-1976
This essay introduces the series ‘Chinese Historical Figures 1966-1976’, by Beijing artist Xu Weixin. The discussion centres on the relationship between pedagogy, historicity and memorialization in Xu’s work, drawing on both Xu’s perceptions of his own work, and on the theoretical frames in which it might be evaluated both in and beyond Chinese art practice. The article is informed by Sara Ahmed’s work on emotion, and Gerhard Richter’s notion of …
Chinese Media Studies: A Belated Introduction
The past several years have seen the emergence of Chinese media studies as a sub-field in communications and media studies worldwide, as an increasingly popular aspect of area and language-specific culture studies, and as a growing focus within Chinese research and teaching institutions in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region and Taiwan, as well as in non-Chinese institutions. This collection of articles puts forwar…
Beijing Time, Black Snow and Magnificent Chaoyang: Sociality, Markets and Temporal Shift in China’s Capital
Modern social order is premised on a shared conception of and obedience to a set of defined temporal systems. Time is therefore a powerful tool with which to layer, classify and police the nature of social order. This article explores the relationship between temporality and the social in China's capital, Beijing. The article draws on observations of Chinese film of the 1990s, the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2011, and the C…
Chinese Modernisms
Tang Wei: Sex, the City and the Scapegoat in Lust, Caution
This article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a nat…
Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
Cultural analysts, social scientists, and media scholars explore the ways in which cities generate competing visions of their use and their future, thereby branding their image for international consumption
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century . Xudong Zhang Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age . Jason McGra…
A Taste of Class: Manuals for Becoming Woman
This discussion addresses the making of woman as postsocialist class-object, developing our core notions of class-making and spiritual homelessness through an exploration of the forms of the feminine in the taste structures in contemporary urban China. The key observation is that beautification, sexual styling, and spiritual/cultural cultivation are consistently linked in narratives of “becoming-woman” in a newly successful genre of aspirational …
Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific . Shu-mei Shih
No place for young women: Class, gender, and moral hierarchies in contemporary Chinese film
This paper discusses how class and gender may be read against the narration of contemporary films in urban China, specifically in Beijing. The paper acknowledges that the effects of marketisation on social life in China are extremely complex, but argues that, nonetheless, a feminist reading is appropriate and necessary at this time. The premise of the paper is therefore that China is experiencing both macro-symptoms of new class structures and di…
From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China . Paul G. Pickowicz , Yingjin Zhang
Collaborative Methods in Researching City Branding: Studies from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Sydney
This article illustrates and reflects upon the nature of inquiry appropriate to the question of place branding, in particular, world city branding. Disciplinary research traditions including cultural studies, film studies, marketing, and psychology offer conceptual categories and valuable modes of access to this area, and our concern here is to examine whether these compete or converge in forming understanding. Noting both the benefits and challe…
A Taste of Class: Manuals for Becoming Woman
This discussion addresses the making of woman as postsocialist class-object, developing our core notions of class-making and spiritual homelessness through an exploration of the forms of the feminine in the taste structures in contemporary urban China. The key observation is that beautification, sexual styling, and spiritual/cultural cultivation are consistently linked in narratives of “becoming-woman” in a newly successful genre of aspirational …
Landscape and Agency: Yellow Earth and the Demon Lover
Tang Wei: Sex, the City and the Scapegoat in Lust, Caution
This article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a nat…
Red Aesthetics, Intermediality and the Use of Posters in Chinese Cinema after 1949
This article focuses on the aesthetic and affective techniques of saturation through which posters legitimated the Party-State in Mao’s China by closing the gap between everyday experience and political ideology. Propaganda posters were designed to put into practice the principle of unity, as conceptualised by Mao Zedong. The argument posits that while the “poster” is normally a printed edition of a painting or design intended for mass distributi…
Seeing White−Female Whiteness and the Purity of Children in Australian, Chinese and British Visual Culture
In this paper, I interrogate the expression and usage of 'whiteness' in Australian, British and Chinese visual culture. My approach is through reading local texts with an eye to transcultural systems of meaning, paying particular attention to the ways in which whiteness is used as a doubled category in sexual politics. The paper is formed through the performance of cross-cultural connectivities within an epistemological emphasis on the travelled …
Women reading Chinese films: Between Orientalism and Silence
Journal Article Women reading Chinese films: between orientalism and silence Get access Stephanie Donald Stephanie Donald Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 325–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.4.325 Published: 01 December 1995
Working in the Space Between
All of the contributors to this special issue have reflected on the stakes involved in negotiating differences in language and culture. In their research and professional practice they inhabit the ‘space between’: the space between languages, the space between cultures, and the space between academic disciplines. While many of our contributors are located in the Australian university system, we also have contributors from outside that system, as …
Beijing Time, Black Snow and Magnificent Chaoyang: Sociality, Markets and Temporal Shift in China’s Capital
Modern social order is premised on a shared conception of and obedience to a set of defined temporal systems. Time is therefore a powerful tool with which to layer, classify and police the nature of social order. This article explores the relationship between temporality and the social in China's capital, Beijing. The article draws on observations of Chinese film of the 1990s, the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2011, and the C…
Chinese Media Studies: A Belated Introduction
The past several years have seen the emergence of Chinese media studies as a sub-field in communications and media studies worldwide, as an increasingly popular aspect of area and language-specific culture studies, and as a growing focus within Chinese research and teaching institutions in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region and Taiwan, as well as in non-Chinese institutions. This collection of articles puts forwar…
Little Friends: Children and Creative Consumption in the People’s Republic of China
The production and distribution of media content are an increasingly important part of the move to diversify and internationalize China’s economy, although changes have been managed so as to maintain central control over the political sphere. This article argues that children are exemplary consumers in an internationalized environment. They retain and reiterate a sense of local and national identity, but are also fully competent in their relation…
The Uses of Media in the People's Republic of China
Symptoms of alienation: The female body in recent Chinese film
(1998). Symptoms of alienation: The female body in recent Chinese film. Continuum: Vol. 12, Censorship and pornography, pp. 91-103
Introduction. Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class Culture in Contemporary China
This special issue of Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies explores the relationship between taste, choice and social stratification in contemporary China. It is premised on the observation that the past thirty years of accelerated Reform policies have initiated a system of authoritarian capitalism, which fosters a network of social values, focussed on opportunity and struggle figured through financial achievement and consump…
Introduction. Post-Mao, Post-Bourdieu: Class Culture in Contemporary China
This special issue of Portal Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies explores the relationship between taste, choice and social stratification in contemporary China. It is premised on the observation that the past thirty years of accelerated Reform policies have initiated a system of authoritarian capitalism, which fosters a network of social values, focussed on opportunity and struggle figured through financial achievement and consump…
Working in the Space Between
All of the contributors to this special issue have reflected on the stakes involved in negotiating differences in language and culture. In their research and professional practice they inhabit the ‘space between’: the space between languages, the space between cultures, and the space between academic disciplines. While many of our contributors are located in the Australian university system, we also have contributors from outside that system, as …
Women reading Chinese films: Between Orientalism and Silence
Journal Article Women reading Chinese films: between orientalism and silence Get access Stephanie Donald Stephanie Donald Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 1995, Pages 325–340, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/36.4.325 Published: 01 December 1995
Landscape and Agency: Yellow Earth and the Demon Lover
Symptoms of alienation: The female body in recent Chinese film
(1998). Symptoms of alienation: The female body in recent Chinese film. Continuum: Vol. 12, Censorship and pornography, pp. 91-103
Seeing White−Female Whiteness and the Purity of Children in Australian, Chinese and British Visual Culture
In this paper, I interrogate the expression and usage of 'whiteness' in Australian, British and Chinese visual culture. My approach is through reading local texts with an eye to transcultural systems of meaning, paying particular attention to the ways in which whiteness is used as a doubled category in sexual politics. The paper is formed through the performance of cross-cultural connectivities within an epistemological emphasis on the travelled …
Exchange and Display: Republics of Taste and the Vision of Elder Statesmen
This article takes three case studies in which exhibited visual material was - at least by some - deemed unfit for exhibition. Although the circumstances of the complaints differed, all the events produced a sense of unease in the assumptions of cross-cultural initiatives. In one case, the incommensurability across dominant Chinese cultures became evident. In the other instances, a mistrust of the ability of predominantly white cultures to 'view …
History, entertainment, education and jiaoyü: A Western Australian perspective on Australian children’s media and some Chinese alternatives
Cultural citizenship is a concept that allows analysis of media product to acknowledge differing modes of reception and interpretation within a single nation-scape. When complemented by the notion of cultural competency, it is possible to use this concept to examine the levels of interpretative entry into dominant but implicit versions of the citizen in national media. This argument claims that first-generation migrant children in a settler socie…
The Uses of Media in the People's Republic of China
Accent on Privilege: English Identities and Anglophilia in the United States
Little Friends: Children and Creative Consumption in the People’s Republic of China
The production and distribution of media content are an increasingly important part of the move to diversify and internationalize China’s economy, although changes have been managed so as to maintain central control over the political sphere. This article argues that children are exemplary consumers in an internationalized environment. They retain and reiterate a sense of local and national identity, but are also fully competent in their relation…
Collaborative Methods in Researching City Branding: Studies from Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Sydney
This article illustrates and reflects upon the nature of inquiry appropriate to the question of place branding, in particular, world city branding. Disciplinary research traditions including cultural studies, film studies, marketing, and psychology offer conceptual categories and valuable modes of access to this area, and our concern here is to examine whether these compete or converge in forming understanding. Noting both the benefits and challe…
From Underground to Independent: Alternative Film Culture in Contemporary China . Paul G. Pickowicz , Yingjin Zhang
Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations across the Pacific . Shu-mei Shih
No place for young women: Class, gender, and moral hierarchies in contemporary Chinese film
This paper discusses how class and gender may be read against the narration of contemporary films in urban China, specifically in Beijing. The paper acknowledges that the effects of marketisation on social life in China are extremely complex, but argues that, nonetheless, a feminist reading is appropriate and necessary at this time. The premise of the paper is therefore that China is experiencing both macro-symptoms of new class structures and di…
Branding Cities: Cosmopolitanism, Parochialism, and Social Change
Cultural analysts, social scientists, and media scholars explore the ways in which cities generate competing visions of their use and their future, thereby branding their image for international consumption
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century . Xudong Zhang Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age . Jason McGra…
A Taste of Class: Manuals for Becoming Woman
This discussion addresses the making of woman as postsocialist class-object, developing our core notions of class-making and spiritual homelessness through an exploration of the forms of the feminine in the taste structures in contemporary urban China. The key observation is that beautification, sexual styling, and spiritual/cultural cultivation are consistently linked in narratives of “becoming-woman” in a newly successful genre of aspirational …
Chinese Modernisms
Tang Wei: Sex, the City and the Scapegoat in Lust, Caution
This article discusses the Tang Wei incident, which evolved across the first half of 2008, during the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Tang Wei is a Chinese actress whose breakthrough role in Ang Lee's film Lust, Caution caused a sensation amongst Chinese audiences. The nudity and sex scenes in the film were explicit, and as such challenged accepted norms in film content. This aspect of the film, combined with the characterization of a nat…
Chinese Media Studies: A Belated Introduction
The past several years have seen the emergence of Chinese media studies as a sub-field in communications and media studies worldwide, as an increasingly popular aspect of area and language-specific culture studies, and as a growing focus within Chinese research and teaching institutions in the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong Special Autonomous Region and Taiwan, as well as in non-Chinese institutions. This collection of articles puts forwar…
Beijing Time, Black Snow and Magnificent Chaoyang: Sociality, Markets and Temporal Shift in China’s Capital
Modern social order is premised on a shared conception of and obedience to a set of defined temporal systems. Time is therefore a powerful tool with which to layer, classify and police the nature of social order. This article explores the relationship between temporality and the social in China's capital, Beijing. The article draws on observations of Chinese film of the 1990s, the 90th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2011, and the C…
Monumental Memories Xu Weixin's Chinese Historical Figures, 1966-1976
This essay introduces the series ‘Chinese Historical Figures 1966-1976’, by Beijing artist Xu Weixin. The discussion centres on the relationship between pedagogy, historicity and memorialization in Xu’s work, drawing on both Xu’s perceptions of his own work, and on the theoretical frames in which it might be evaluated both in and beyond Chinese art practice. The article is informed by Sara Ahmed’s work on emotion, and Gerhard Richter’s notion of …
Media in China: Consumption, Content and Crisis
Media in China: New Convergences, New Approaches
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