Paola Voci researches and teaches at the University of Otago in Aotearoa New Zealand. She specializes in “Chinese-accented” visual cultures, and, in particular, documentary, animation, and other hybrid video practices. She is the author of China on Video, a book that analyses and theorises “light” movies made for and viewed on computer and mobile screens and co-editor of Screening China's Soft Power, an investigation on the role played by film and media in shaping China's global image. Her current research focuses on vernacular “animateur” practices and postdigital documentary and examines their contribution to histories and theories of the moving image
