Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781032430478 / Angielski

Wing-Fai Leung

Opis

An emerging interest in a British East and Southeast Asian identity after decades of political and social exclusion has coincided with periods of economic and political challenges in the UK. 　 

Recenzje

‘Engaged scholarship at its best – at once three deeply sensitive and extensive explorations of British East and Southeast Asian films and a powerful intervention that inscribes British ESEA culture as a structure of feeling to push back against the racist violence that followed the Covid-19 pandemic.’ 　

Professor Chris Berry, King’s College London　

‘Through an insightful analysis of three films –She, a Chinese; The Receptionist and Lilting– Leung Wing-Fai makes an important case for British East and Southeast Asian cinema as a significant emerging film and cultural movement. She deftly demonstrates how through an accented cinema that makes visible a range of migratory perspectives from China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Cambodia, filmmakers are powerfully carving out an alternative and contrapuntal creative space.’

Dr Diana Yeh, City, University of London　

Spis treści

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: British East and Southeast Asian Cinema as a Cultural Movement

Chapter 1: Time, Space and the Chinese Migrant in Guo Xiaolu's Works

Chapter 2: Representations of Gendered Labour, Sex Work and Affect　

Chapter 3: Lilting: On the Accented Politics of a Queer Narrative

Conclusion

Index

O autorze

Leung Wing-Fai is a Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries at King’s College London. She researches East Asian films and media, intersectionality, gender and race, and cultural and creative labour. Since 2020, she has initiated collaborative community engagement and research projects that combat anti-East and Southeast Asian racism.