Yi Song

Biography

Background

Yi Song is a PhD student in Film Studies. Her doctoral project is funded by the Edinburgh Doctoral College Scholarship (2024-2028).

Yi earned an MPhil in Film and Screen Studies with Distinction at the University of Cambridge. Before that, she graduated with First Class Honours in International Communications at the University of Nottingham (Ningbo). 

 

Qualifications

PhD in Film Studies, University of Edinburgh, 2024-ongoing

MPhil in Film and Screen Studies, University of Cambridge

BA in International Communications with French, University of Nottingham (Ningbo)

Research summary

Yi Song's research explores vulnerability in the works of contemporary European women artists. 

 

MPhil Dissertation: "Intimacy and Absence: Children’s Mourning in Contemporary Francophone Cinema", the highest mark in the cohort. 

BA Dissertation: "Isolation, Nihilism and Narcissism of Individuals: A Postmodern Perspective on Spike Jonze's Her (2013)", Best Dissertation Award.

Papers delivered

  • The Ambivalence in Japan’s Postmodern Individualisation: Doppelgänger in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Films. The Pan-Asian Quest for Cultural Authenticity: The Fantastic and the Folkloric in Film and the Creative Industries. University of Nottingham (Ningbo), 3rd-4th May, 2024.

 

  • ‘Our Bodies are Hydrophilic’: Queer Existence as Bodies of Water in Robin Campillo’s 120 BPM (2017). ASMCF 2023: Reclaiming Spaces. Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, London, 7th-8th September, 2023.

 

  • Children, Time, and Mourning in Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman (2021). Film and Screen Studies MPhil Conference. University of Cambridge, 18th May, 2023.

 

  • Articulating Community Memory through Participatory Art: Agnes Varda and JR. Cambridge French Graduate Conference. University of Cambridge, 12th-13th January, 2023.

 

  • Agnes Varda’s Faces, Places (2017): Constructing the Site of Memory through Participatory Art. Museum without Walls Conference. Queen’s University, Ontario, 15th-17th August, 2022.

 

  • Song, Yi, Gilardi, Filippo and Celia Lam. Building Community Museums: Transmedia Storytelling and Audience Engagement. IAMCR 2022: Communication Research in the Era of Neo-Globalisation. Tsinghua University, Beijing, 11th-15th July, 2022.

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