Homay King is Professor in the Department of History of Art and Program in Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College. She is the author of Virtual Memory: Time-based Art and the Dream of Digitality and Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier, which was an inspiration for the 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass, to which she contributed a catalog essay. She is a member of the Camera Obscura editorial collective.
Homay King
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Virtual Roundtable on “UnREAL”
Leading up to the launch of its second season this week, Sarah Gertrude Shapiro and Marti Noxon’s UnREAL has garnered both critical acclaim and scintillating buzz, especially since it was revealed that season 2’s “suitor” on the Bachelor-esque reality show-within-the-show is African American. To date, such a casting decision still hasn’t come to fruition in […]










