Prof. Wesley Aaron JACKS
Assistant Professor
PhD. University of California-Santa Barbara
MA.University of Wisconsin-Madison
BA. Wabash College
Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries
Lingnan University
Email: [email protected]
Location: HSH218
Professor Wesley Jacks teaches courses on global cinema history and creative industries at Lingnan University. He earned his PhD in Film and Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an MA in Communication Arts (Film) from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
His research focuses on global media industries, national media policies, Chinese-language film historiographies, and pirate humanities. He has presented his work at academic conferences across North America and Asia.
Media industries, media policy, film distribution, Chinese-language film histories, transnational cinemas, pirate humanities, media aesthetics.
Journal Articles
- 2025. Wesley Jacks and Yongli Li. ‘Lions, Tigers, and Dragon Seals: Chinese-language Film Distribution in North American Cinemas.’ Transnational Screens 16(1): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/25785273.2025.2480053
- 2025. Wesley Jacks. ‘A Bureau, an Institute and a Spirit: The 1995 Sundance Film Festival in Beijing.’ Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01439685.2025.2490647
- 2023. Wesley Jacks. ‘Trading Devil Fish and Monkey Kings: French and Chinese Film Industry Policies and Exchanges 1978–1993.’ International Journal of Cultural Policy 29(5): 592–602. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2096880
- 2019. Wesley Jacks. ‘The Personal, the Political and the Popular: Sino-Japanese Film Collaboration in the Early Reform Era.’ Journal of Chinese Cinemas 13(3): 202–214. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2019.1678475
- 2019. Wesley Jacks. ‘Dead Chickens and Scared Monkeys: China’s Sprawling Celebrity Tax Scandal.’ global-e 12(16). https://globalejournal.org/global-e/april-2019/dead-chickens-and-scared-monkeys-chinas-sprawling-celebrity-tax-scandal
Book Chapter
- 2015. Wesley Jacks, Michael Curtin, and Yongli Li. ‘Hollywood in China: Continuities and Disjunctures in Film Marketing.’ In Nolwenn Mingnant, Cecilia Tirtaine, and Joël Auguros, eds. Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century. London: BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, 65–76.
Review Article
- 2019. Wesley Jacks. Review of Haunted: An Ethnography of the Hollywood and Hong Kong Media Industries. Media Industries Journal 6(1): 161–164.
- 2024/26 RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) Project, “On the Screen but Off the Map: Import Film Distribution in the PRC 1978–1993”.
- Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Peer Reviewer. 2017–present.
- Media Fields Journal, Member, Editorial Collective. 2016–2019.