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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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We are an international network and community of scholars researching and teaching on the topic of visual effects. We embrace diverse, high quality scholarship (research and practice based) on any aspect of visual effects, including historical and theoretical approaches, aesthetic analyses, industry and software studies, film philosophy, reception studies, animation studies, and more. If you are producing high quality research (written, visual, programmed or otherwise) and would like to have a profile on this site feel free to contact us.
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Hye Jean Chung
About
Hye Jean Chung is Associate 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 Cinema Journal, Visual Studies, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and also in the edited collection, Simultaneous Worlds: Global Science Fiction Cinema. She is currently working on projects that examine posthuman characters in digital cinema and virtual geographies in contemporary science fiction.
Areas of Focus
digital aesthetics, visual effects, computer animation, digital production pipelines, digital labor, media technology, industrial and cultural discourse, production studies
Relevant Publications
Digital Reincarnation: The Mediated Bodies and Multiple Lives of The Mummy
Media Heterotopias: Digital Effects and Material Labor in Global Film Production
Media Heterotopias and Science Fiction: Transnational Workflows and Transgalactic Spaces in Digitally Composited Ecosystems
The Reanimation of the Digital (Un)Dead, or How to Regenerate Bodies in Digital Cinema
Media Heterotopia and Transnational Filmmaking: Mapping Real and Virtual Worlds
Kung Fu Panda: Animated Animal Bodies as Layered Sites of (Trans)National Identities
Global Visual Effects Pipelines: An Interview with Hannes Ricklefs
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