1st Edition
Migration and Identity in British East and Southeast Asian Cinema
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
Biography
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.
‘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
