Globalizing Asian Cultures series:"Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism"

"Getting Real: Chinese Documentary, Chinese Postsocialism", part of the ongoing colloquium series.

Chris Berry, Associate Professor, Film Studies and Dramatic Arts, UC Berkeley, will trace the development and diversification of independent documentary film making in China from videotape to DV since its inception in the early 1990s, and its role in the succession from socialist realism to on-the-spot realism."

Chris Berry received his PhD in Film and Television Studies from UCLA in 1999. He taught at La Trobe University in Melbourne for 10 years prior to coming to UC Berkeley. His research interests include Chinese Cinema, Korean Cinema, and the role of the cinema in the production of individual and collective identities. He is the author of A Bit On The Side: East-West Topographies Of Desire, the editor of Perspectives On Chinese Cinema, the co-coordinator of The House of Kim Ki-Young, and the co-editor of The Filmmaker And The Prostitute: Dennis O'Rourke's "The Good Woman Of Bangkok."