Inside the Mind of the Influencing Machine: Set Design in the Age of Cold War Television
Weihong Bao, UC-Berkeley
Wed, 4/26 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 100 Jones Hall
Committee for Film Studies
Join the Committee for Film Studies for the third and final lecture in our spring 2023 series that brings prominent film scholars into conversation with members of the Princeton community. This event features Weihong Bao, Associate Professor of Film and Media at the University of California-Berkeley.
Talk title
“Inside the Mind of the Influencing Machine: Set Design in the Age of Cold War Television”
Weihong Bao is Associate Professor of Film and Media at UC-Berkeley. She is the author of Fiery Films: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915-1945 (University of Minnesota Press, 2015), honored by the Modernist Studies Association Best Book Prize in 2016. She has co-edited two special issues Media/Climates (Representations 2022) and Medium/Environment (Critical Inquiry 2023). She is currently completing a book, “Background Matters: Set Design and The Art of Environment.” The book examines the co-emergence of environmental thinking and set design from early to mid-twentieth century China, across film, theater, architecture, and television. She is the editor-in-chief for The Journal of Chinese Cinemas and co-edits the “film theory in media history” book series published by Amsterdam University Press.
This event is free and open to the public.
The spring 2023 lecture series is sponsored by the Humanities Council’s Committee for Film Studies.
Please email program manager Margo Bresnen at mbresnen@princeton.edu with any questions.
