James Wicks, Professor of Film and Media Studies, grew up in Taiwan and teaches Narrative and Documentary Film, Scriptwriting for TV and Film, and Intro to TV & Film Production in San Diego, California. His Ph.D. in Film Studies (Cultural Studies section), with an emphasis on Chinese Cinema, was received from the Literature program at the University of California, San Diego in 2010. He has taught at PLNU since 2009 and joined the Department of Communication Studies in 2021. He has written two books: Transnational Representations: The State of Taiwan Film in the 1960s and 1970s (HKUP, 2014) and An Annotated Bibliography of Taiwan Film Studies (Columbia UP, April 2016) co-authored with Columbia University librarians Jim Cheng and Sachie Noguchi.
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