Speaker: Chenshu Zhou, Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Zoe Meng Jiang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Friday, April 11, 2025
Time: 4:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Room 436, 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
This talk expands on the popular notion of “screen time” to think about the time one spends on consuming screen-based media (e.g. cinema, television, digital media) as a crucial interface linking modern everyday life to political economies. How much time should screens take up in people’s lives? How to determine when screen consumption is productive, and when it becomes a waste of time? Through two seemingly unrelated case studies, itinerant film exhibition during the Great Leap Forward Movement (1958-1962) and contemporary online live streaming, I show how the management of screen time negotiates dominant paradigms of productivity across different historical periods.
Chenshu Zhou (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of the award-winning book Cinema Off Screen: Moviegoing in Socialist China (University of California Press, 2021).
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