Author Archives: Yung Lai

Book Launch Tue, 04.06.2024, 6:00 PM, Goethe-Institut London An evening of short talks and longer conversations over a glass of…

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Please join us in June and July at BFI Southbank for our third series of workshops devoted to re-envisioning film…

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23 May 2024 15:00 to 17:00 Strand Campus, London Marker’s 1962 La Jetée, a celebrated short film about a post-nuclear…

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Professor Earl Jackson will discuss Japanese film theories and beyond in three events at King’s College London and Garden Cinema on 6,…

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This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers…

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Elena Gorfinkel has curated a five screening programme “Grandma’s Grammar” at the Open City Documentary Film Festival London, 24-30 April…

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Visiting Scholar Professor Yizhou Tian from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) joins us for a year with support from the China…

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Victor Fan’s recent essay “Code-Mixing and Code-Switching in Classical Hong Kong Cinemas” has just received the Outstanding Paper Award from…

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Yung-Hang Bruce Lai, “Representations of Christianity in Chinese Independent Cinema: Gan Xiao’er’s Postsocialist Religious Critique,” Religions 15, no. 4 (2024):…

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Mia Parnall, “Intimate Alienations: The Octopus Body as Cinematic Écriture,” The Neutral, no. 3 (2024): The Unhuman. AbstractFor theorists from…

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Sarah Cooper ‘Vegetal Life, Plant Soul: Early British Film Flowers,’ in Mark Cauchi, ed., Cinema and Secularism (New York: Bloomsbury,…

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Erica Carter and Hyojin Yoon, “A Timely Education. Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia (1989)” in Angela McRobbie ed, Ulrike Ottinger: Film,…

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Chris Berry, “Pema Tseden (1969–2023): A Tribute,” Film Quarterly, Spring 2024, Volume 77, Number 3. In 2023, China’s first Tibetan…

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Fan, Victor. “Toward a Cinematic Transtopia.” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 17, no. 1 (2023): 81–94. doi:10.1080/17508061.2024.2312727. AbstractHas Chinese independent cinema begun to…

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