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Research Associate, Dynamics of World Cinema
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I specialise in East Asian cinemas, in particular Hong Kong cinema and other Chinese-language cinemas. I was awarded a PhD in Film Studies by the University of St Andrews for my thesis entitled 'Hong Kong Cinema 1982-2002: The Quest for Identity during Transition'.
My work on The Leverhulme Trust project 'Dynamics of World Cinema: Transnational Channels of Global Film Distribution' goes in line with my other research interests, including Asian film industries, diasporic film circulation, regional and national film policy, and non-mainstream cinematic practices. Recently, I have expanded my scope to study online fandom and issues of film promotion.
I am the editor of Cinemas, Identities and Beyond (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), co-editor of Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (with Dina Iordanova; St Andrews Film Studies, 2010), and Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia (with Dina Iordanova; St Andrews Film Studies, 2011, forthcoming). My latest work, 'Red Cliff: The Chinese-language Epic and Diasporic Chinese Spectators', is featured in Robert Burgoyne's The Epic Film in World Culture (Routledge, 2010).
Selected Publications
Editorships
Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia (with Dina Iordanova). St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 2011 (forthcoming).
Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities (with Dina Iordanova). St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 2010.
Cinemas, Identities and Beyond (with D. H. Fleming). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Book Chapters
'East Asia, Film and Migration', in Immanuel Ness (ed) The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012 (forthcoming).
'East Asian Film Festivals: Film Markets', in Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung (eds) Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia. St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 2011 (forthcoming).
'"We believe in ‘film as art'" An Interview with Li Cheuk-to, Artistic Director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF)', in Dina Iordanova and Ruby Cheung (eds) Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia. St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 2011 (forthcoming).
'Funding Models of Themed Film Festivals', in Dina Iordanova with Ruby Cheung (eds) Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and Imagined Communities. St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies, 2010, pp. 74-103.
'Red Cliff: The Chinese-language Epic and Diasporic Chinese Spectators', in Robert Burgoyne (ed) The Epic Film in World Culture. New York: Routledge, 2010, pp. 176-204.
'Always on the Move: Identity in Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild', in Ruby Cheung with D. H. Fleming (eds) Cinemas, Identities and Beyond. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 227-240.
'Corporatising a Film Festival: Hong Kong', in Dina Iordanova with Ragan Rhyne (eds) Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit. St Andrews: St Andrews Film Studies with College Gate Press, 2009, pp. 99-115.
Reviews
Book Review of Gina Marchetti, Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy, in Scope, Issue 13, February 2009.
Review Essay of Meaghan Morris, Siu Leung Li and Stephen Chan Ching-kiu (eds) Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema, and John Anderson, Edward Yang in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 28 (3), 2008.
Book Review of Justin Bowyer (ed) The Cinema of Japan and Korea in Forum for Modern Language Studies, 42 (4), October 2006, 461.
Review Essay of Peter Brunette, Wong Kar-wai, and Stephen Teo, Wong Kar-wai in Film Criticism, XXX(3), Spring 2006, 75-78.
Book Review of Michael Berry, Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers, in Senses of Cinema, Issue 39, April - June 2006.
Conferences and Papers
Invited Talks
Guest Speaker: 'Running out of Time: From Red Cliff through New Media Platforms then back to the Old Days', 'Rethinking Chinese Film Industry: New Methods, New Histories' Conference, Centre for Media and Communication Research and David C. Lam Institute for East-West Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University, 8-9 October 2010.
Guest Speaker: 'Film Festivals: Business Models', Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies 3rd Annual Event, sponsored by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, St Andrews, 14 May 2010.
Guest Speaker: 'Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema: Self and the Othered?', Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews, 2 October 2007.
Conference Papers
'Re-diasporising the Diasporas: The Dynamics of Audience-driven Online Film Promotion', the 4th Annual Conference on ‘Cultural Production in a Global Context: The Worldwide Film Industries', Grenoble Ecole de Management, France, 3-5 June 2010.
'From The Warlords to Red Cliff: The Politics of Film Promotion in the Asia-Pacific and the Diasporic Chinese Online Fandom' (Panel Chair of 'Asian-Pacific Cinemas: Distribution and Reception'), 2010 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, LA, USA, 17-21 March 2010.
'Postcolonial Liminality and Spatial Reconstruction: Fruit Chan's Hollywood Hong Kong (2002)', 2008 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Philadelphia, USA, 6-9 March 2008.
'(De)Territorializing Horror: Domestic Specificities and Transnationalism in Fruit Chan's Dumplings (2004)', 2007 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, Chicago, USA, 8-11 March 2007.
'Forever Journeying: Interstitiality in Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild (1990)', Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, UK, 30 June - 2 July 2006.
'"Her Name is Femme Fatale!": The Politics of Male Representation in Fruit Chan's Hollywood Hong Kong', Conference on Gender and East Asian Cinema, University of Nottingham, UK, 21 October 2005.
'Disturbed Chinese Identity: Female Solidarity and Identity Crisis in Hong Kong Cinema' (Panel Chair of 'Chinese/Hong Kong Film and Television'), 2005 Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, London, UK, 31 March - 3 April 2005. |
