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Andrew Grossman is the editor of the anthology Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade (Harrington Park Press), a regular contributor to and editor of Bright Lights Film Journal, and a columnist for Popmatters. He has contributed book chapters to numerous anthologies, including New Korean Cinema (University of Edinburgh Press); Film and Literary Modernism (Cambridge Scholars); Chinese Connections: Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora (Temple University Press); Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Routledge); Moving Image: Documents of Contemporary Art (MIT Press); Transnational Chinese Cinema: Corporeality, Desire, and the Ethics of Failure (Bridge 21); The Pink Book: The Japanese Eroduction (Yale University: Kinema Club); Movies in the Age of Obama (Rowman-Littlefield); Clint Eastwood's Cinema of Trauma (McFarland); The Encyclopedia of LGBTQIA+ Portrayals in American Film (Rowman-Littlefield); The Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society; Hong Kong Horror Cinema (Edinburgh University Press); Grief and Contemporary Horror Cinema (Lexington); Bloodstained Narratives: Critical Essays on the Giallo (University of Mississippi Press); A Critical Companion to Terry Gilliam (Lexington); East Asian Film Remakes (University of Edinburgh Press); and A Critical Companion to Julie Taymor (Lexington). How to strike at the heart of a beast with the heart of a beast
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“I have been making art for 50 years and have never allowed myself to be corrupted. Quite the opposite, I was locked up.” – Otto Mühl As I tremulously reflect[…]
The cripplingly small-minded art of verisimilitude becomes crippled by its own technology Are Human Beings Real, or Do They Only Act That Way? When we contemplate all the sinister, spirit-truncheoning[…]
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
All jargon and no authenticity? Of the vast numbers of corporate-made genre films that flooded Japanin the 1970s, Donald Richie once remarked that the “West knows nothing of these pictures,[…]
Asian · Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Reviews
Feminism adrift in a sea of ogling orientalism, global capitalism, and fatalist aesthetics INTRODUCTION Chinese Women’s Issues Under the Polar Aesthetics of Female Suffering and Mulan-ism Since the 1919 May[…]
Asian · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
The DVDs of these two rare gay pink films could use some extras and better source prints, but at least they’re here! Sluggishly but steadily, one segment of once-inaccessible Asian[…]
Asian · Historical & Epic · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Truly subversive or mere cinematic “seasoning,” in the director’s own phrase? I am the first to admit that Oshima Nagisa’s Gohatto (1999, more literally “Against the Law,” but titillatingly translated[…]
Asian · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
These boys mix it up, sort of, in India’s first gay indie Writer-director Kaizad Gustad’s Bombay Boys (1998) is, of course, not the first Indian film to deal “seriously” with[…]
