Dr Jane Park

Dr. Jane Chi Hyun Park has a Ph.D. in Radio-TV-Film from The University of Texas at Austin and a M.A. in English from the University of California, Irvine and previously worked at the University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on representations of race and ethnicity, particularly of Asiatic peoples and cultures in film and popular media, including television, popular music, and video games. She has published articles in Global Media Journal and World Literature Today and book chapters in East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren (NYU Press, 2004) and Mixed Race in Film and Television edited by Mary Beltrán and Camilla Fojas (NYU Press, forthcoming). She is completing her book manuscript, entitled Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), which examines the ideological role of Asiatic imagery in US films from the 1980s to the present. She is a member of the American Studies Association, the International Communication Association, the Association of Asian American Studies, and the Society for Cinema and Media Studies in which she is currently serving as Asian/Pacific American Caucus co-chair.

Research and teaching interests: cultural studies, film and media studies, Asian and Asian American Studies, postcolonial theory, and comparative race studies.

Publications

Books
Park, Jane. Yellow Future: Oriental Style in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press (forthcoming).

Journal articles
Park, Jane. “Stylistic Crossings: Cyberpunk Impulses in Anime.” World Literature Today 79, nos. 3-4 (2005): 60-63.

Park, Jane and Karin Wilkins. “Re-orienting the Oriental Gaze.” Global Media Journal, spring 2005.

Book chapters
Park, Jane. “Cibo Matto’s Stereotype A: Articulating Asian American Hip Pop.” Davé, Shilpa, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren, eds. East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture. New York: NYU Press, 2005. 292-312.

Park, Jane. “Virtual Race: The Racially Ambiguous Action Hero in The Matrix and Pitch Black.” Beltrán, Mary and Camilla Fojas, eds. Mixed Race in Hollywood Film and Media Culture. New York: NYU Press (in press).

Beltrán, Mary, Jane Park, Henry Puente, Sharon Ross, and John Downing. “Pressurizing the Media Industry.” Downing, John and Charles Husband, Representing Race: Racisms, Ethnicity and the Media. London: Sage Publications, 2005

Other writing:
Invited columnist, Flow, an online journal of television and media studies, 2008-2009

Poetry:
“Tribute.” The Massachusetts Review, fall 2004

“Amnesia,”“Education,” “Anime Wong,” and “Plane Trips.” Olomo, Omi Osun/Joni L. Jones and Lisa L. Moore, eds. The Austin Project Archive: Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic. Austin, TX: The University of Texas Press (under contract).

Invited Presentations

“Oriental Style: Representations of the Asiatic in Hollywood Action Genre Films”
Global Media Center, Southern Illinois University, Carbonale, IL, September 20, 2007
Curator, “In Media Res,” a multimedia experiment featured on the Making MediaCommons website, funded by the Institute for the Future of the Book (part of the Annenberg Center for Communication at the University of Southern California) and the MacArthur Foundation, February 17, 2007

Participant, “Power, Production, Participation,” an online panel on video game literacies
MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Digital Media and Learning, October, 2006

“Stylistic Crossings: Visions of the Techno-oriental Future in Anime and US Cyberpunk Cinema”
“Traffic and Diaspora: Political, Economic, and Cultural Exchanges between Japan and Asian America,” Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, February 2005

Selected Conferences

“Afro-Asian Masculinities in Contemporary Hollywood Action Films”
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, New York, NY, April 2007

Panel Chair, “Becoming Visible: New Formations of Race and Ethnicity in Eighties Hollywood”
“Multicultural Orientalism: Race as Spectacle in Eighties Hollywood”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2007

“Virtual Race? Mixed-Race Motifs in Science Fiction Cinema”
International Communication Association Annual Conference, Dresden, Germany, June 2006

Panel Chair: “Styles of New Orientalism”
“The Ambivalent Politics of East-West Friendship in The Karate Kid, Gung Ho, and Black Rain”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2006

“Techno-oriental ‘Others’ in Science Fiction Cinema”
International Communication Association Annual Conference, New York, NY, May 2005

“Re-orienting Cyberpunk in Mecha Anime”
Association for Asian American Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 2005

“Orientalism and Gender in ‘Hip Hop Kung Fu’: Ghost Dog, Cradle 2 the Grave, and Kill Bill Volume 1”
American Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2004

“Martial Arts as Virtual Spectacle in The Matrix and its Sequels”
American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hartford, CT, October 2003

“Cultural and Formal Convergence in Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within”
International Communication Association Annual Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2003

“Screening the City: Race, Space, and Production Design in Blade Runner”
Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN, March 2003

“The Failure of the ‘China Film’: Selznick's Attempt to Document Madam Chiang"
Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Denver, CO, April 2002

“All-American Girl: Producing the Asian American Family”
Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Washington D.C., April 2001