About Stephanie DeBoer

Research and Creative Interests

  • screen technologies & cultures
  • video & media arts
  • media geographies & infrastructures
  • media production/co-production
  • global media studies
  • Inter-Asian screen media
  • Japanese and Chinese screen media
  • digital humanities & creative practice

Biography

My current scholarly, curatorial, and collaborative work examines the material, cultural, technological, and spatial formations of media screens – in their dynamics as media infrastructure and environment; their entwinements with transnational, regional, and urban media geographies and ecologies; and their expressions through video and media art. Informed by my longstanding concern for matters of media place, space, and scale, my work draws from critical screen, cinema, and media studies; cultural geography studies; urban and infrastructure studies; global, transnational, and regional studies; inter-Asian cultural studies; as well as digital humanities and creative practice.

In addition to teaching and working in my home unit of Cinema and Media Studies in 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, and the Cultural Studies Program.

Selected Publications

Infrastructures on the Edge: On the Material, Poetic, and Political Valences of Screens in Urban Space [book manuscript under development]

Coproducing Asia: Locating Japanese-Chinese Regional Film and Media.  Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

“Urban LED Screens, Media Facades, and the Infrastructural Politics and Poetics of Digital Light,” Oxford Companion to Chinese Digital Media, Eds. Carlos Rojas, Jinying Li, Yomi Braester. Oxford UP. [Forthcoming]

“On Campus Screen Ecologies: Entry Points for Inhabiting Campus Spaces and Archives,” The Documentary Moment, Eds. Josh Malitsky and Patrik Sjoberg. Bloomington: Indiana UP.  [Forthcoming]

“Urban Screens: Balancing Act Between Artistic and Commercial Application,” Association for for Computing (ACM), with Kristy H.A. Kang and Elke Reinbuber. July 14, 2024.

“Technologies of Co-production, Japan-in-Asia, and the Cold War Production of Regional Place,” The Japanese Cinema Book. Eds. Alastair Phillips, Hideaki Fujiki. London: BFI, 2020. 505-517.

“On Adjacency: Infrastructural Tactics for Urban Screens in Transit (Shanghai version),” Leonardo (special issue on urban interfaces edited by Nanna Verhoeff, Sigrid Merx, and Michiel de Lange) 22.4 (March 15, 2019). 

“New Media / New Asia: From Dominant to Residual Geographies of Emergent Video, Screen, and Media Arts.” The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema. Eds. Gina Marchetti, Tan See Kam. Aaron Magnan-Park. London: Palgrave, 2018. 129-148.

“On the Way: A Screens Collective Project on the Infrastructural Affects of Waiting in Urban Transit,” MAB ’18: Proceedings of the 14th Architecture Biennale Conference, Association for Computing (ACM), with Petra Johnson. November 13, 2018. 152-157.

“Uncovering the Media City: Public Screens and Urban China,” Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Cultures 2:3 (June 20) 2018.

“Working Through China: Scaled Convergence and the Contingencies of East Asian Film Co-production.” Screen, 56.2 (Summer) 2015.

“Locating the Global in the Asias of Cinema and Media,” Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1:1 2014.

“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.