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Prof. Yiyang HOU

PhD. UCLA
MA. Columbia University
BA. State University of New York at Stony Brook

Research Assistant Professor


Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries
Lingnan University

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Yiyang Hou teaches courses on world film history, Sinophone digital culture, and East Asian creative industries at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University. He received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and an MA from Columbia University.


A media historian by training, Hou is broadly interested in all forms of modern and contemporary creative productions from the Sinophone world. His research on film and media studies has appeared in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Global Media and China, Contemporary Animation, amongst others. He is the 2023 winner of the First Place Award for Student Writing from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS). Currently, he is working on his first book project, which is tentatively titled The Possessed Screen: Chinese Popular Cinema and the Reinvention of Moviegoing in Post-Mao China, 1978-1989. As the first monograph focusing exclusively on 1980s Chinese popular cinema and its unique, market-driven film culture, this book explores the cultural history of film exhibition and distribution in post-Mao China during the Early Reform Era.

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  • Research Interests

    Media infrastructures, world cinema history and screen practice, contemporary digital culture, urban China studies

  • Representative Publications

    Academic Articles

    • “Video-Going Inside the Movie Theater: Revisiting the Film Exhibition Crisis in Urban China During the Early Reform Era,” forthcoming.
    • “Going to the Video Hall: A Sensory Encounter with a New Urban Space in Post-Mao China,” forthcoming.
    • “Projecting the ‘Modern’: The Reconstruction of Urban Cinemas in Post-Mao China, 1987-1989,” Journal of Chinese Cinemas, vol. 16, no. 1 (2022): pp. 74-91.
    • “Rebranding Disney in the 21st Century: Bob Iger and the Global Anime Industry,” Contemporary Animation (dangdai donghua), vol. 2, no. 2 (2019): pp. 45-51.


    Translations

    • Elsaesser, Thomas. BFI Film Classics: Metropolis, translated by Yiyang Hou. Beijing: Peking University Press, forthcoming.
    • Graham, Peter, and Ginette Vincendeau, editors. The French New Wave: Critical Landmarks, translated by Yiyang Hou. Beijing: Peking University Press, forthcoming.
    • Mulvey, Laura. BFI Film Classics: Citizen Kane, translated by Yiyang Hou. Beijing: Peking University Press, 2014.
    • Anderson, John. Edward Yang, translated by Yiyang Hou. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2013.

  • Awards and Honors

    • First Place Award for Student Writing, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2023.
    • Department of Asian Languages and Cultures’ Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA, 2021.
    • UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Graduate Fieldwork Fellowship for research at National Taiwan Normal University, Summer 2019.
    • University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) Grant-Multicampus Graduate Student Working Groups, 2018.