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Hye Jean Chung
About
Hye Jean Chung is Professor of Cultural Studies at Kyung Hee University in South Korea. Her book, Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production (Duke University Press, 2018), discusses the material conditions of digital pipelines and global film production. Her work has been published in Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Visual Studies, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and also in the edited collections, Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film and Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema. She is currently pursuing projects on the development of the Korean VFX industry and virtual geographies in contemporary science fiction.
Areas of Focus
digital production pipelines, visual effects, computer animation, digital labor, media technology, production studies, global cinema, Korean cinema
Relevant Publications
Beyond the Digital Surface: Uncovering Material Traces of Labor and Location (2024)
‘Envisioning a Transnational Future in Space Sweepers’ (2021)
Digital Reincarnation: The Mediated Bodies and Multiple Lives of The Mummy (2023)
Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production (2018)
Media Heterotopias and Science Fiction: Transnational Workflows and Transgalactic Spaces in Digitally Composited Ecosystems (2015)
The Reanimation of the Digital (Un)Dead, or How to Regenerate Bodies in Digital Cinema (2015)
Media Heterotopia and Transnational Filmmaking: Mapping Real and Virtual Worlds (2012)
Kung Fu Panda: Animated Animal Bodies as Layered Sites of (Trans)National Identities (2012)
Global Visual Effects Pipelines: An Interview with Hannes Ricklefs (2011)
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