The Adelio Ferrero Award is the "oldest and most renowned Italian award for young film critics, historically featuring two contests, for essays and reviews in Italian. The 38th edition features a section dedicated to video essays (audiovisual works that analyze works and issues related to the audiovisual field)."
Ying-Hsiu Chou (Asian Languages & Literature) has won Second Prize for the Best Video Essay at the 2022 Adelio Ferrero Film and Critics Festival, held in Alessandria, Italy. Her videographic essay, "Deconstructing the Construction: The Female Images in Chinese Detective Films, 2010-2020," is a series of video essays exploring the image of women in the most popular and influential Chinese detective films across China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the recent decade. It centers critical feminist praxis to make an ethnographic inquiry into Chinese cinema through videographic criticism. Chou developed the project with support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities Digitial Humanities Summer Fellowship program.
The Adelio Ferrero Award is the "oldest and most renowned Italian award for young film critics, historically featuring two contests, for essays and reviews in Italian. The 38th edition features a section dedicated to video essays (audiovisual works that analyze works and issues related to the audiovisual field)."
Please join us in sending your congratulations to Chou for this wonderful achievement.