A conversation across two new books: Jean Ma’s At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators and Tung-Hui Hu’s Digital Lethargy. Hybrid: in-person and by Zoom, Stanford Humanities Center, McMurtry 370, 10 AM - 12 PM Pacific Time.

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Jean Ma is the Victoria and Roger Sant Professor in Art in Stanford’s Department of Art & Art History. She has published books on the temporal poetics of Chinese cinema (Melancholy Drift: Marking Time in Chinese Cinema), singing women on film (Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema), and the relationship of cinema and photography (Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography). Her new book At the Edges of Sleep (UC Press) is available through open-access: luminosoa.org/site/books/m/10.1525/luminos.132/