Gina MARCHETTI 馬蘭清 (Overseas Fellow)

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Fields of Study:

Women filmmakers in the HKSAR, China and world cinema, Contemporary trends in Asian and Asian American film culture

Profile:

Gina Marchetti is Professor in The Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong. She is also Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at The University of Hong Kong. Marchetti teaches courses in film, gender and sexuality, critical theory and cultural studies.

Her books include "Yellow Peril": Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (Berkeley: University of California, 1993),From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2006),Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s INFERNAL AFFAIRS—The Trilogy (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2007),The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012),Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi, 2018)

She has co-edited several anthologies, including Hong Kong Film, Hollywood and the New Global Cinema, with Tan See-Kam (London: Routledge, 2007), Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity and Diaspora, with Peter X Feng and Tan See-Kam (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2009), Hong Kong Screenscapes: From the New Wave to the Digital Frontier, with Esther M. K. Cheung and Tan See-Kam (HKUP, 2011), The Palgrave Handbook of Asian Cinema, with See Kam Tan and Aaron Magnan-Park (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Her current research interests include women filmmakers in the HKSAR, China and world cinema, and contemporary trends in Asian and Asian American film culture.

Visit the website Hong Kong Women Filmmakers for more information about her work on Hong Kong women filmmakers since 1997. To register for her Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Hong Kong cinema (“Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens | 全球化下的香港电影"), click here.