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Angels Wear White (China, 2017)
A girl examines a massive, disembodied foot wearing a white shoe. Could it be a huge sandal, since we’re on the boardwalk of a seaside village? No such luck. The foot – literally objectified in […]
Jinpa (China, 2018) [VIFF 2018]
Jinpa (played by actor/poet of the same name) drives a lorry along a Tibetan plateau. He comes across like a truck-driving rock star, dressed in dusty leather clothes with a constantly present pair of shades. […]
Blue Spring (Japan, 2001)
Blue Spring, directed by Toshiaki Toyoda, is a character driven drama that focuses on a group of teens in their last semester before graduation. The underperforming high school is filled with students who don’t care, […]
Call for Papers – Special Issue of Feminist Media Studies on Queer Pop in Post-2000 China
Since the 2000s, China’s media industrialization and cultural globalization have encouraged a burgeoning “queer pop”——that is, a soaring proliferation of non-normatively gendered and/or sexualized narratives and performances, cultural productions and inventions, artistic expressions and gestures, […]
Trap Street (China, 2013)
Boy meets girl only for state to spy on boy in Trap Street, a stealthy exercise in surveillance state paranoia that marked the directorial debut of Vivian Qu who has since won plaudits for her […]
Preview – Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2018, November 8-16
The Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival (Reel Asian), Canada’s premier pan-Asian festival, has announced its complete programming lineup for the 22nd edition, over 50% of which are directed by women. Returning programmes include Marquee, Vista, […]
Call for Papers – Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore, June 2019
Papers and panel proposals are invited for the 13th Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference: The Environments of Asian Cinemas. With the support of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Media & Creative Industries at LASALLE College […]