Chris Berry traces the development and diversification of independent documentary film making in China from videotape to DV since its inception in the early 1990s, and its role in the succession from socialist realism to "on-the-spot realism." Chris Berry received his Ph.D. in Film and Television Studies from UCLA in 1999. He taught at La Trobe University in Melbourne for ten years prior to coming to the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include Chinese cinema, Korean cinema, and the role of the cinema in the production of individual and collective identities. He is the author of A Bit on the Side: East-West Topographies of Desire, the editor of Perspectives on Chinese Cinema, the co-coordinator of The House of Kim Ki-Young, and the co-editor of The Filmmaker and the Prostitute: Dennis O'Rourke's "The Good Woman Of Bangkok." This seminar is part of the Winter Colloquium Series on "Globalizing Asian Cultures."