{"id":2131,"date":"2017-10-04T17:05:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T00:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/?page_id=2131"},"modified":"2026-02-02T15:11:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:11:39","slug":"bloom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: Michelle Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-fgo83-60083390e943593a7fe1a1a2c13ab0b1\">\n.flex_column.av-fgo83-60083390e943593a7fe1a1a2c13ab0b1{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-fgo83-60083390e943593a7fe1a1a2c13ab0b1 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding  '     ><style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1zqzr7-c841c66dfaaf73207fa553ed228240f4\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-1zqzr7-c841c66dfaaf73207fa553ed228240f4{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-1zqzr7-c841c66dfaaf73207fa553ed228240f4 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-1zqzr7-c841c66dfaaf73207fa553ed228240f4 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-1zqzr7-c841c66dfaaf73207fa553ed228240f4 av-special-heading-h2  avia-builder-el-1  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Faculty<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-ydeeb-08c87df2ff3e5504d0c189c46b63ec7a\">\n.flex_column.av-ydeeb-08c87df2ff3e5504d0c189c46b63ec7a{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 20px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-ydeeb-08c87df2ff3e5504d0c189c46b63ec7a av_one_third  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_two_third  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='avia-team-member av-71s28z-5fc6749cf6a2f09a04bbc223a6acd70e  avia-builder-el-3  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class=\"team-img-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-3515 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-3515 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-267x300.jpg\" alt='Michelle Bloom'  itemprop=\"image\"   height=\"300\" width=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-267x300.jpg 267w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-768x864.jpg 768w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-916x1030.jpg 916w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-1334x1500.jpg 1334w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-627x705.jpg 627w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy-450x506.jpg 450w, https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/000MBloomUHMtalk918-copy.jpg 1663w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name '  itemprop=\"name\" >Michelle Bloom<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '  itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Professor, <em>Comparative Literature\/French<\/em><\/div><div class='team-member-description '  itemprop=\"description\" ><p>Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Brown University, 1995<br \/>\nDEA in Film Studies, Universit\u00e9 de Paris III - la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1997<\/p>\n<p><strong>Office:<\/strong> HMNSS 2512<br \/>\n<strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:michelle.bloom@ucr.edu\">michelle.bloom@ucr.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >UCR | Department of Comparative Literature and Languages<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-5a16ib-aabac28191d6c41d014b7dc45783246a\">\n.flex_column.av-5a16ib-aabac28191d6c41d014b7dc45783246a{\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 20px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-5a16ib-aabac28191d6c41d014b7dc45783246a av_two_third  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_one_third  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-3p7ctf-fecf36dbc665ccb885c7c38d72624430 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Michelle Bloom teaches comparative literature, film and French. She particularly enjoys offering courses on food and film; French cinema; world film; and Existentialism.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Bloom\u2019s current research in food studies continues to explore the interplay between the Francophone world and the Sinophone world, which she explored in her most recent book, <em>Contemporary Sino-French Cinema: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons<\/em> (University of Hawai\u2019i Press, 2015). <em>Contemporary Sino-French Cinema<\/em> examines the crossover between France, on the one hand, and East Asia (especially Mainland China and Taiwan), in film. Professor Bloom aims to go beyond the polarities of orientalism, instead considering contemporary cinema through the optics of m\u00e9tissage, translation, intertextuality and imitation. Related articles address Sino-French films by directors Dai Sijie, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhangke, Emily Tang Xiaobai and Tsai Ming-liang.<\/p>\n<p>Her first book,\u00a0<em>Waxworks: A Cultural Obsession<\/em>\u00a0(University of Minnesota, 2003) examines wax figures and wax museums and in literature, cinema, history and popular culture. Professor Bloom has also published on Truffaut and Henry James; Baudelaire and Wagner; Balzac and Champleury; Villiers and Zola.<\/p>\n<p>At UCR, Professor Bloom serves as a Wellness Ambassador and LGBT ally. Outside of the classroom, she likes to bake (and eat!) madeleines and to travel to France as well as China\/Taiwan\/Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons<br \/>\n<\/em>December 2015, University of Hawaii Press<\/p>\n<p>Transnational cinemas are eclipsing national cinemas in the contemporary world, and Sino-French films exemplify this phenomenon through the cinematic coupling of the Sinophone and the Francophone, linking France not just with the Chinese mainland but also with the rest of the Chinese-speaking world. Sinophone directors most often reach out to French cinema by referencing and adapting it. They tend to view France as mysterious, sexy, and sophisticated, just as the French see China and Taiwan as exotic.<\/p>\n<p>As Michelle E. Bloom makes clear, many films move past a simplistic opposition between East and West and beyond Orientalist and Occidentalist cross-cultural interplay. Bloom focuses on films that have appeared since 2000. She views the work of well-known directors such as Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Dai Sijie through a Sino-French optic, applying the tropes of m\u00e9tissage (or biraciality), intertextuality, adaptation and remake, translation, and imitation to shed new light on their work. She also calls attention to important, lesser studied films: Taiwanese director Cheng Yu-chieh&#8217;s\u00a0Yang Yang, which depicts the up-and- coming Taiwanese star Sandrine Pinna as a mixed race beauty; and Emily Tang Xiaobai&#8217;s debut film\u00a0Conjugation, which contrasts Paris and post-Tiananmen Square Beijing, the one an incarnation of liberty, the other a place of entrapment. Bloom&#8217;s insightful analysis also probes what such films reveal about their Taiwanese and Chinese creators.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.ucr.edu\/?l=news&amp;article=350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Podcast of Talk at Rivera Library<\/a><\/li>\n<li><em>Waxworks<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guydelisle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guy Delisle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/17504902.2024.2381401\">Framing Silence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/FranceChinaBelfastFlyer.pdf\">FranceChinaBelfastFlyer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/BloomCVs24.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Bloom&#8217;s Curriculum Vitae<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-1xe477-9c21bec904215b82326947a44bcc7a3b-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><a href='https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/people\/faculty\/'  class='avia-button av-1xe477-9c21bec904215b82326947a44bcc7a3b avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-theme-color'  ><span class='avia_button_icon avia_button_icon_left' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue88c' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/span><span class='avia_iconbox_title' >Back to Faculty<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1769,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2131","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2131\/revisions\/5694"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/complitlang.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}