Chang-Min Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6100055 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chang-Min Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chang-Min |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2199-7690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Poor digitality and Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin’s experimental documentaries
This article details how the conceptualization of digital imaging becomes a catalyst for Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin’s experimental documentaries. In these works, personal histories are layered against their imbrication with the publicized history of Taiwan, such as zoo animal spirit rites, Henry Liu’s assassination, as well as the home of a famed agricultural ‘terrorist’. What they have done is to use the idea of the digital as metonymic and met…
Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility
In confronting environmental catastrophes, how can we find a medium that can augment the view of these burning issues? How can we unfold the circularity that the seeming insignificance of particles at the micro level is inextricably, in sedimented spatiotemporal layers, linked to the pattern at the macro level? What if our media are found wanting for this task? These are the conundrums that Zhao Liang unpacks in Behemoth (2015) through its figura…
Precocious modernism
In cataloguing donated films previously not on the record, the Taiwan Film Institute found Mou Tun-Fei’s two films, I Didn’t Dare to Tell You (1969) and The End of the Track (1970). Aesthetically daring, topically sensitive, and culturally unprecedented, these works feature children and adolescents as their protagonists, detailing the Taiwanese experiences and changing landscapes at the time from their precocious perspectives. It is not an overst…
Digital 3D and the Hermeneutics of Modernity
Digital 3D and the Hermeneutics of Modernity Chang-Min Yu (bio) Nick Jones. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 304 pages. $140 hardback. $35 paperback. About twenty years ago, David Bordwell proposed the "modernity thesis" to characterize an emerging trend of scholarship that drew upon the works of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer.1 In this "culturalist" school of th…
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Precocious modernism
In cataloguing donated films previously not on the record, the Taiwan Film Institute found Mou Tun-Fei’s two films, I Didn’t Dare to Tell You (1969) and The End of the Track (1970). Aesthetically daring, topically sensitive, and culturally unprecedented, these works feature children and adolescents as their protagonists, detailing the Taiwanese experiences and changing landscapes at the time from their precocious perspectives. It is not an overst…
Digital 3D and the Hermeneutics of Modernity
Digital 3D and the Hermeneutics of Modernity Chang-Min Yu (bio) Nick Jones. Spaces Mapped and Monstrous: Digital 3D Cinema and Visual Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 304 pages. $140 hardback. $35 paperback. About twenty years ago, David Bordwell proposed the "modernity thesis" to characterize an emerging trend of scholarship that drew upon the works of Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer.1 In this "culturalist" school of th…
Zhao Liang's Behemoth (2015) and the Apocalypse of Ecological Visibility
In confronting environmental catastrophes, how can we find a medium that can augment the view of these burning issues? How can we unfold the circularity that the seeming insignificance of particles at the micro level is inextricably, in sedimented spatiotemporal layers, linked to the pattern at the macro level? What if our media are found wanting for this task? These are the conundrums that Zhao Liang unpacks in Behemoth (2015) through its figura…
Poor digitality and Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin’s experimental documentaries
This article details how the conceptualization of digital imaging becomes a catalyst for Hsu Che-Yu and Chen Wan-Yin’s experimental documentaries. In these works, personal histories are layered against their imbrication with the publicized history of Taiwan, such as zoo animal spirit rites, Henry Liu’s assassination, as well as the home of a famed agricultural ‘terrorist’. What they have done is to use the idea of the digital as metonymic and met…
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work)