GMRC presents Xinyu Lu on March 25, 2009

The Global Media Research Center at SIUC presents Xinyu Lu.

The New Documentary Movement has emerged as an important medium by which to examine some of the social, political, and historical disjunctions in contemporary China. In fact, the New Documentary Movement can be seen as an integral part of those social developments and also as part of a historical movement, which use their own style to maintain a dialogue with society. This dialogue includes investigation, interpretation and intervention. The significance of the New Documentary Movement lies in the activist engagement of the filmmakers with the emotional and living conditions of Chinese people in all walks of life in contemporary China.

Lu Xinyu is a professor and the Chair of the Broadcasting Department, School of Journalism, at Fudan University, where she also serves as senior research fellow. Her many writings include the publication Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement (Beijing, SDX Joint Publishing Company, 2003). Lus research is focused on the relationships between Chinese visual culture, mass media and the social development. Her new book entitled Writing and What It Obscures was published by Guangxi Normal University Press, 2008. Originally trained in literature, she joined the faculty of Fudan University in 1993, shortly after completing the universitys Ph.D. program in Western Aesthetics. Professor Lu is spending a year as a visiting scholar in the department of cinema studies at New York University.

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