Stephanie DeBoer

Phone:

(812) 856-3708

Email:

sdeboer@iu.edu

Department:

International Studies

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Research Summary

My research, creative activities, and teaching address the co-constitution of place, space, and location as they are produced within transnational, regional, and urban screen media cultures. My work is interdisciplinary, multi-modal, and often collaborative. It draws from critical screen, cinema, and media studies, critical geography studies, urban and infrastructure studies, global, transnational, and regional studies, as well as digital humanities and creative practice.

In addition to teaching and working in my home unit of Cinema and Media Arts/Studies, The Media School, I also teach in the Department of International Studies, School of Global and International Studies. I am also affiliated with the Department of Geography, East Asian Languages and Cultures, as well as the Cultural Studies Program.

Research and Creative Interests

• Global Media
• Studies Screen Cultures
• Video & Media Arts
• Media Geographies & Infrastructures
• Media Production/Co-Production
• Japanese and Chinese Screen Media
• Inter-Asian Screen Media
• Digital Humanities & Creative Practice

Courses Commonly Taught

Undergraduate

• F204: Screen Cultures
• C219: Media in the Global Context
• F392: From Video Screens to Video Art
• F398: Chinese Cinemas
• F413/I305: Media Screens and Global Frames
• F413/I305: Global Media Infrastructures
• X478: Uncovering the Media City: Public Screen Cultures and Urban China (Field Experience in Media)

Graduate

• C503: Introduction to Media Theory
• C596: Trans/national Film and Media: Core Concepts
• C792:  Space, Place, and Media: Approaches in Media and Geography

Publication Highlights

• Locating Media Art, Screens, and Architectural Complexes in Urban China [book manuscript under development]
• “On Adjacency: Infrastructural Tactics for Urban Screens in Transit,” Leonardo, [forthcoming]
• “New Media / New Asia: Dominant and Residual Geographies of Emerging Media Arts.” The Asian Cinema Handbook.  Eds. Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam, Aaron Magnan-Park.  London: Palgrave. [forthcoming].
• Coproducing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
• “Working Through China: Scaled Convergence and the Contingencies of East Asian Film Co-production.” Screen, 56.2 (Summer) 2015.
• “Film and Media Locations: Toward a Dynamic and Scaled Sense of Global Place,” Framing the Global: Entrypoints for Research. Ed. Hilary Kahn. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press), 2014.
• “Co-Producing Cross-Border Action: Technologies of Contact, Masculinity and the Asia-Pacific Border.” Culture, Theory & Critique, 5.1 (April) 2011.
• “Framing Tokyo Media Capital and Asian Co-production,” East Asian Cinemas: Regional Flows and Global Transformations. Ed. Vivian Lee. London: Palgrave P, 2011.
• “Japanese Film, Co-productions and Regional Desires in the 1960s.” Japanese Film Lives: Audiences, Producers  (Vol. 3). Eds. Kurosawa Akira, Yomota Inuhiko, Yoshimi Shunya, Li Fengyu. Tokyo: Iwanami P, 2010. [published in Japanese]
• “Scaling the TV Station: Fuji Television, Digital Development and Fictions of Global Tokyo.” Television, Japan, Globalization. Ed. Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto et. al. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2010.
• “Tokyo, Television, and the Urban Imaginary.” Tokyo Studies. Ed Yoshimi Shunya, Wakabayashi Mikio. Tokyo: Kinokuniya P, 2005.  [published in Japanese]
• “Sayon no Kane/Sayon’s Bell.” Ed. Justin Boyer. 24 Frames: The Cinema of Japan and Korea. London: Wallflower P, 2004.

Creative and Collaborative Work

• Co-convener (with Petra Johnson) of the Shanghai-based Screens Collective, a media art collective that addresses fundamental questions concerning the potential of urban screens as sites of public contact. Please see our (upcoming) presentation at the Media Architecture Bienalle 2018 for a description of our project in development, “On the Way: A Screens Collective Project on the Infrastructural Affects of Waiting in Urban Transit,” which is supported by the Making Lab, Tongji University College of Innovation and Design: https://mab18.org/schedule/
• Curator and co-editor of collection of IU undergraduate essays in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture. On urban screens in Hong Kong and Shanghai, with introduction by yours truly. Essays resulted from the 2018 field/travel course, X478: Uncovering the Media City: Public Screen Cultures and Urban China. http://www.mediapolisjournal.com/2018/06/uncovering-the-media-city-public-screens-and-urban-china/
• Co-organizer of international symposium, “Emergent Visions: Adjacency and Urban Screens.” With Kristy H.A. Kang (Nanyang Technological University) and Anne Balsamo (UT Dallas). Hosted by the School of Art, Design & Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, March 30-April 1, 2018.
• IDAH Faculty Fellow (2017-2018, Indiana University) and convener of the “Screen Ecology Project,” an ongoing (and continuing) campus investigation of public screens and their potentials for facilitating public dialogue, encounter, and collaboration. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/22460
• Producer & Artistic Consultant, China Remixed Public Video Art Exhibition (Isaac Leung, Curator and Chairperson of Videotage, Hong Kong), Feb. 1-March 10, 2017.