China Seminar | 13 December 2007

UH-Shanghai SMART (Student Media Art) Exchange: Films and Filmmakers

Tom Brislin is professor and chairman of the Academy for Creative Media, the University of Hawai‘i’s film school. The founding chair of the School of Communications, enjoining the Journalism and Communications Departments with two B.A. programs, an M.A. program and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, his teaching and research interests include media ethics; global cinema, international and intercultural mass communication; and popular culture.

Before joining UH, Brislin had a 12-year stint at The Honolulu Advertiser as city editor, assistant news editor and education reporter/editor. Prior to that, he edited the Pacific Dateline on Guam, where he also directed radio and TV news and educational TV programming for KUAM AM/FM/TV and Guam Cable TV. Receiving his B.A. from the University of Guam and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Mass Communication at The Ohio State University, Brislin is active in training U.S. and international journalists for the American Press Institute, East-West Center, the Pacific Island News Association, and the Saipan and Micronesia chapters of the Society for Professional Journalists. Brislin administers the nationally acclaimed Carol Burnett Fund for Responsible Journalism ethics programs. His current projects include comparative press values in Asia and Europe; globalization and media ethics; and critical studies in U.S. and global cinema.

Anne Misawa, Assistant Professor, is program leader of the project.