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MA Ran
 
Organization
Graduate School of Humanities Department of Humanities Associate Professor
Graduate School
Graduate School of Humanities
Undergraduate School
School of Humanities
Title
Associate Professor
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Degree 4

  1. Doctor of Philosophy ( 2011.11   the University of Hong Kong (PRC) ) 

  2. Master of Arts ( 2006.7   Yunnan University (PRC) ) 

  3. Master of Arts ( 2005.7   the University of Amsterdam (Holland) ) 

  4. Bachelor of Arts ( 2002.7   Yunnan University ) 

Research Interests 9

  1. Sinophone cinemas

  2. transnational screen cultures

  3. film studies

  4. film festival studies

  5. transnational cinema

  6. Sinophone media & cinema studies

  7. inter-Asian screen studies

  8. film studies

  9. film festival studies

Research Areas 2

  1. Others / Others  / film studies

  2. Humanities & Social Sciences / Aesthetics and art studies  / Film Studies

Current Research Project and SDGs 2

  1. East Asian Film Cultures in the Post-Cold War Era: Film Festivals and their Transnational Network

  2. Sinophone Imaginaries in Contemporary Asian Visual Cultures

Research History 6

  1. Harvard-Yenching Institutte   Harvard-Yenching Institutte   Visiting Scholar   Visiting Scholar

    2023.9 - 2024.6

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    Country:United States

  2. Nagoya University   Graduate School of Humanities Department of Humanities 4   Associate Professor

    2017.4

  3. Nagoya University   Graduate School of Letters Department of Humanities   Associate Professor

    2013.10 - 2017.3

  4. postdoctoral researcher

    2011.9 - 2013.8

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    Country:Japan

  5. postdoctoral researcher

    2011.9 - 2013.8

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Education 4

  1. the University of Hong Kong   Comparative Literature   Film Studies

    2006.9 - 2010.8

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    Country: China

  2. Yunnan University   World Literature and Comparative Literature   Comparative Literature

    2002.9 - 2006.7

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    Country: China

  3. the University of Amsterdam   Film Studies

    2004.9 - 2005.7

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    Country: Netherlands

  4. Yunnan University   Chinese Language & Literature   Chinese Language and Literature

    1998.9 - 2002.7

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    Country: China

Professional Memberships 8

  1. The Association for Asian Studies   member

    2016.11

  2. 日本映像学会    会員

    2013.11

  3. American Comparative Literature Association   member

    2015.11

  4. Society of Cinema and Media Studies   Member

  5. Society of Cinema and Media Studies

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Papers 41

  1. It is all about qingnian dianying: Post-independent Chinese cinema, auteurism, and the FIRST International Film Festival Reviewed International coauthorship

    Tong Shan; Ran Ma

    Journal of Chinese Cinemas     2023

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    Authorship:Corresponding author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

    DOI: 10.1080/17508061.2023.2286861

  2. ‘Think Like an Archipelago’——Regarding the Japanese-Chinese Independent Film Culture Connections (1989-2020) Invited Reviewed

    Ran Ma

    Chinese Independent Cinema Observer   ( 1 ) page: 8 - 21   2021.5

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    Authorship:Corresponding author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

  3. Eigasai Inside Out: Programming Japanese Cinema at Overseas and Japanese Film Festivals Today Invited Reviewed

    Edited by Fujiki Hideaki & Philip Alastair

        page: 164 - 178   2020.5

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    Authorship:Last author   Language:English   Publishing type:Part of collection (book)  

  4. Reminiscences of a journey to Okinawa: landscape film as essay, and Takamine Gō’s Okinawan Dream Show (1974)

    Ran Ma

    Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema   Vol. 13 ( 1 ) page: 4 - 21   2021.1

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher:Informa {UK} Limited  

    DOI: 10.1080/17564905.2021.1914887

  5. 記憶と身体を乗り越える──東北ドキュメンタリー三部作とポスト・福島ドキュメンタリー Reviewed

    『〈ポスト 3.11〉メディア言説再考』     page: 283-302   2019.2

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    Authorship:Lead author   Language:English   Publishing type:Research paper (scientific journal)  

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Books 5

  1. "Affective-Scape/ing in Zhang Lu’s Inter-Asian Quartet", in Z. Zhang, D. Mukherjee, I. Paramaditha, & S. Lee (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas. Reviewed International journal

    Ran Ma ( Role: Joint author)

    Routledge  2024.7  ( ISBN:9781032199405

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    Total pages:586   Responsible for pages:165-175   Language:English Book type:Scholarly book

  2. Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia Reviewed

    MA Ran( Role: Sole author)

    Amsterdam University Press  2019.10 

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    Total pages:272   Language:English Book type:Scholarly book

    This book examines an array of auteur-driven fiction and documentary independent film projects that have emerged since the turn of the millennium from East and Southeast Asia, a strand of transnational filmmaking that converges with Asia's vibrant yet unevenly developed independent film movements amidst global neoliberalism. These projects bear witness to and are shaped by the ongoing, historical processes of inter-Asia interaction characterized by geopolitical realignment, migration, and population displacement. This study threads together case studies of internationally acclaimed filmmakers, artists, and collectives such as Zhang Lu, Kuzoku, Li Ying, Takamine Go, Yamashiro Chikako, and Midi Z, all of whose transborder journeys and cinematic imaginations disrupt static identity affiliations built upon national, ethnic, or cultural differences. This transborder filmmaking can be viewed as both an aesthetic practice and political act, reframing how people, places, and their inter-connections can be perceived-opening up possibilities to reimagine Asia and its connections to globalization.

  3. Toward Archiveology: Regarding Nguyen Trinh Thi’s Essay Films. In L. Pan (Ed.), The (Im)possibility of Art Archives: Theories and Experience in/from Asia. Reviewed International journal

    Ran Ma ( Role: Joint author ,  one chapter)

    Palgrave Macmillan.  2023.2  ( ISBN:978-981-99-5898-6

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    Language:English Book type:Scholarly book

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-5898-6

  4. How to Remember 3.11? — Post-Fukushima Documentary and the Politics of Tōhoku Documentary Trilogy (2011-2013) Reviewed International journal

    Ran Ma (Coates, J. and Ben-Ari, A. (eds))( Role: Joint author)

    Routledge  2021.8 

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    Total pages:232   Responsible for pages:136-157   Language:English Book type:Scholarly book

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003154259

  5. Independent filmmaking across borders in contemporary Asia

    馬 然 (映像学)( Role: Sole author)

    Amsterdam University Press  2020  ( ISBN:9789462986640

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    Language:English

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MISC 1

  1. Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989-2005

    Ma Ran

    CHINA QUARTERLY   Vol. 224   page: 1129 - 1130   2015.12

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    Language:English   Publishing type:Book review, literature introduction, etc.   Publisher:CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS  

    DOI: 10.1017/S0305741015001514

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Presentations 25

  1. Yamashiro Chikako’s Eco-Fantasy—Toward an Ecosophy of the Island/s International conference

    Ran Ma

    Society of Media and Cinema Studies  2024.3.17  Society of Median and Cinema Studies

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (public)  

    Venue:Boston, USA   Country:United States  

  2. Un/bounding the Great Wall–Sino-Japanese Documentary Media Connections in the Long 1980s Invited

    Ran Ma

    Harvard-Yenching Institute  2024.3.8  Harvard-Yenching Institute

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    Event date: 2024.3

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:Boston, USA   Country:United States  

    Other Link: https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/un-bounding-the-great-wall-sino-japanese-documentary-media-connections-in-the-long-1980s/

  3. Yamashiro Chikako’s Eco-Fantasy—Toward an Ecosophy of the Island/s Invited International conference

    Ran Ma

    Council of East Asian Studies Talk Series  2024.2.15  Yale University

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    Event date: 2024.2

    Language:English   Presentation type:Oral presentation (invited, special)  

    Venue:New Haven, USA   Country:United States  

  4. Border-crossing Asia Invited International conference

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    Topics in Asian Film Studies grad seminar, New York University  2023.10.13  New York University, USA

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    Event date: 2023.10

    Language:English   Presentation type:Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

    Venue:New York University, USA   Country:United States  

  5. Yamashiro Chikako’s Eco-Fantasy—Toward an Ecosophy of the Island/s International conference

    Ran Ma

    Association for Asian Studies in Asia (AAS-IN-ASIA)  2023.6.25  Association for Asian Studies in Asia (AAS-IN-ASIA)

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    Event date: 2023.6

    Language:English   Presentation type:Symposium, workshop panel (nominated)  

    Venue:Kyungpook National University, Korea   Country:Korea, Republic of  

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Works 2

  1. Coproducing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media.STEPHANIE DEBOER.Minneapolis and London:University of Minnesota Press,2014

    2014.9

  2. Coproducing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media.STEPHANIE DEBOER.Minneapolis and London:University of Minnesota Press,2014

    2014.9

Other research activities 1

  1. Launch event for the Journal of Chinese Independent Cinema Observer

    2021.5

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    Launch Event for the Bilingual Journal Chinese Independent Cinema Observer & Online Forum “Sino-Japanese Connections in Independent Film Cultures” (by Chinese Independent Film Archive)

KAKENHI (Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research) 4

  1. Chinese Independent Cinema in Transformation: Visual Politics in Perspective

    Grant number:22K00230  2022.4 - 2026.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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    Authorship:Principal investigator 

    Grant amount:\4290000 ( Direct Cost: \3300000 、 Indirect Cost:\990000 )

  2. Sinophone Imaginaries in Contemporary Asian Visual Cultures

    Grant number:18K12263  2018.4 - 2022.3

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists  Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

    Ma Ran

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    Grant amount:\3770000 ( Direct Cost: \2900000 、 Indirect Cost:\870000 )

    Despite that my project was extended for another half a year due to the slow progress of my translation plan, overall the last year of this project also saw some satisfactory progress. Not only I was able to work on translating my book into Japanese (expected to be published with Japanese publisher), but also this project was smoothly bridged with the new JSPS project that I work on. Over the 4 years' span, I consider my project a successful one. With the Kakenhi, I was able to participate conferences and conduct many field trips abroad and in Japan, which laid solid basis for my research work and the final publication of my monograph, Independent Filmmaking across Border in Contemporary Asia. Besides, I was also able to hold both online and offline screening and talk events related to my research, which contributed to a wider range of publics and transnational community of film lovers and researchers.

  3. East Asian Film Cultures in the Post-Cold War Era: Film Festivals and their Transnational Network

    Grant number:15K16665   2015.4 - 2018.3

    Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists(B)

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    Authorship:Principal investigator 

  4. Digital Film Archives: What the Future Will Bring

    Grant number:20H01219  2020.4 - 2025.3

    Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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    Authorship:Coinvestigator(s) 

 

Teaching Experience (On-campus) 16

  1. Asian cinema after 1945

    2021

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    This course positions the survey of Asian cinemas within the socio-historical exigencies and cultural context of Japan, Korea, Greater China and Southeast Asia since 1945 and aims to facilitate the understanding of Asian film traditions in relation to the sociopolitical history and discourses of modernities in this region and beyond. Students are expected to acquire the basic knowledge on Asian film history, and are urged to learn to interpret and analyze films by engaging with contemporary socio-cultural issues that became significant during the timeframe under examination.

  2. Critical analysis of visual culture

    2021

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    This course positions the survey of Asian cinemas within the socio-historical exigencies and cultural context of Japan, Korea, Greater China and Southeast Asia since 1945 and aims to facilitate the understanding of Asian film traditions in relation to the sociopolitical history and discourses of modernities in this region and beyond. Students are expected to acquire the basic knowledge on Asian film history, and are urged to learn to interpret and analyze films by engaging with contemporary socio-cultural issues that became significant during the timeframe under examination.

  3. Cinema Theory and Practice I

    2021

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    This seminar aims to survey and examine some of the current debates in media and cienma studies, in paying specific attention to the Asian context and Sinophone mediascapes, both of which have been rarely covered or touched upon in other similar postgraduate courses but is vital to students who aspire to develop their critical horizons vis-à-vis the positioning of media and visual cultures amidst current global geopolitical circumstances. The seminar is structured by following the ‘keywords’ that are in one way or another addressing the cutting-edge topics in media and visual studies today, with a line-up of the most updated and highly selective readings.

  4. New perspectives on cinema studies

    2020

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    As rightly pointed out by art historian Boris Groys, “there is…nothing more traditional than an orientation to the new”. Traversing and re-examining some of the most exciting and pressing research topics/questions in Film Studies today, this lecture aims to generate refreshing insights into the study of Asian film cultures in a globalizing era. Specifically, our weekly lectures will look at contemporary cinema culture from two broadly intersecting aspects, 1) how cinemas engage contemporary (East) Asian societies aesthetically and politically; 2) how the cycle and dynamics of film production, circulation, exhibition (spectatorship) have been related to the discourses of national cinema, transnational cinema, and global cinema. Most case studied films are from the region of East Asia.

  5. Critical Film Analysis 

    2021

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    This course is designed to engage the students with important research perspectives in Film Studies on theory, method and analysis. Building upon the study of a selection of film from both Hollywood productions and world cinema, we would navigate the students through several crucial strands of film theories and cultivate their ability in critically approaching the text, style, aesthetics, and politics of a film work.

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Teaching Experience (Off-campus) 1

  1. 中国社会特殊研究Ⅱ

    2021.10 - 2022.2 Aichi University)

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    Level:Postgraduate 

 

Social Contribution 2

  1. To work as jury member for Beijing International Short Film Festival

    Role(s):Advisor

    Beijing International Short Film Festival  2021.12

  2. An Online Cinema Screening and Dialoguing-with-the-Filmmakers Series: Questioning Normative Boundaries—Re-examining Gender, the Body, and Identity in a Global Context

    Role(s):Presenter, Organizing member

    Nagoya University, Gender Research Library  2020.11 - 2021.1

Academic Activities 3

  1. to write a themed introduction for Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival (2021)'s Okinawan cinema program International contribution

    Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival   2021.8

  2. to review Manuscript ID Screen-2020-170.R1 entitled "Weaving the Nation with the World: The PRC’s Transnational Film Distribution in the 1950s and 1960s International contribution

    Role(s):Peer review

    Screen  ( Online ) 2021.4

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    TITLE: Weaving the Nation with the World: The PRC’s External Film Geographies in the 1950s and 1960s

    ABSTRACT: This study approaches the 1950s and 1960s PRC transnational film distribution from the perspective of film geographies and investigates how the PRC created and maintained a film cosmos by linking the nation with the world. It locates the film cosmos within the frame of ongoing mediation between the state’s shifting self-positioning, the domestic cultural regime building, and the international Cold War wrestling. This paper argues that these PRC film geographies reflected but not equated with the regional geopolitics and the Cold War order. The spectrum of the film titles and the distribution of film geographies constitute eddies within a broader geopolitical Cold War imaginary and socialist Mao cultural imaginary in current scholarship.

  3. Editorial board member for the journal of Chinese Independent Cinema Observer International contribution

    Role(s):Review, evaluation

    the Chinese Independent Cinema Archive (Newcastle University)  ( Online ) 2021.1

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    Type:Scientific advice/Review 

    Chinese Independent Cinema Observer is a bi-lingual peer-reviewed journal dedicated to the study of Chinese independent films and film culture. It publishes twice a year on the official website of Chinese Independent Film Archive (CIFA).