Corey Byrnes
Biographic Data
| ID | 513379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corey Byrnes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corey |
| FAMILY NAME | Byrnes |
| SIGNATURE | BYRNES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagined Islands and the Potential Nation
In 1978, Tong Enzheng published the science fiction story “Death Ray on Coral Island” (“Shanhudao shangde siguang” 珊瑚岛上的死光), which was soon adapted into a film with the same title. Both take place entirely outside of China, first in an unnamed country, where a group of patriotic overseas Chinese scientists work to build a powerful atomic battery, and then on a mysterious coral island — set between a first world of imperialist nations and a second…
Speculative Landscapes, Promethean Mirages, and Eco-Poiesis
Men at work: Independent documentary and male bodies
Much has been written about the evolution of the “New Chinese Documentary Film Movement”—its shift from public and implicitly political topics to a more private and politically agnostic position, its embrace of digital video, its relationship with narrative film. Throughout these changes and the academic discourses that interpret them, two themes have remained constant: First, a sense of reality as something occluded and difficult to access. Docu…
Transpacific Maladies
This article centers on cultures of anxiety and threat across the Pacific. Threat is an especially useful category for writing about a “rising” China, which is often imagined both as a site of localized environmental ruination that prefigures imminent global collapse and as a source of contamination that easily crosses national borders. Particularly in the global North, China has become a focal point for ecoanxieties that are shadowed by longer h…
Chinese Landscapes of Desolation
This essay explores how landscape forms are used by writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other artists from inside and outside of China to represent environmental problems in that country. It considers the "landscape of desolation" as an ecocritical mode designed to change how people see and act in the world in relation to both the shifting status of "Chinese tradition" and to earlier moments in Euro-American landscape art, particularly the so…
Chinese Landscapes of Desolation
This essay explores how landscape forms are used by writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other artists from inside and outside of China to represent environmental problems in that country. It considers the "landscape of desolation" as an ecocritical mode designed to change how people see and act in the world in relation to both the shifting status of "Chinese tradition" and to earlier moments in Euro-American landscape art, particularly the so…
Chinese Landscapes of Desolation
This essay explores how landscape forms are used by writers, photographers, filmmakers, and other artists from inside and outside of China to represent environmental problems in that country. It considers the "landscape of desolation" as an ecocritical mode designed to change how people see and act in the world in relation to both the shifting status of "Chinese tradition" and to earlier moments in Euro-American landscape art, particularly the so…
Men at work: Independent documentary and male bodies
Much has been written about the evolution of the “New Chinese Documentary Film Movement”—its shift from public and implicitly political topics to a more private and politically agnostic position, its embrace of digital video, its relationship with narrative film. Throughout these changes and the academic discourses that interpret them, two themes have remained constant: First, a sense of reality as something occluded and difficult to access. Docu…
Transpacific Maladies
This article centers on cultures of anxiety and threat across the Pacific. Threat is an especially useful category for writing about a “rising” China, which is often imagined both as a site of localized environmental ruination that prefigures imminent global collapse and as a source of contamination that easily crosses national borders. Particularly in the global North, China has become a focal point for ecoanxieties that are shadowed by longer h…
Speculative Landscapes, Promethean Mirages, and Eco-Poiesis
Imagined Islands and the Potential Nation
In 1978, Tong Enzheng published the science fiction story “Death Ray on Coral Island” (“Shanhudao shangde siguang” 珊瑚岛上的死光), which was soon adapted into a film with the same title. Both take place entirely outside of China, first in an unnamed country, where a group of patriotic overseas Chinese scientists work to build a powerful atomic battery, and then on a mysterious coral island — set between a first world of imperialist nations and a second…
Archaeology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · China (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (2 works) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (2 works) · Environmental ethics (2 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (2 works) · Geography (2 works)