Angie Chen: Hong Kong Film Pioneer
(2023)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2023). Angie Chen: Hong Kong Film Pioneer. In F. Chan, F. Elliott, & A. Willis (Eds.), Women in East Asian Cinema: Gender representations, creative labour and global histories (153-165). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
Outputs (25)
Translating Personas: French Singers on Film (2023)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2023). Translating Personas: French Singers on Film. In K. Fairclough, & J. Wood (Eds.), Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market (95-110). UK: Bloomsbury Academic
Translating Personas: French Singers on Film (2023)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2023). Translating Personas: French Singers on Film. In K. Fairclough, & J. Wood (Eds.), Pop Stars on Film: Popular Culture in a Global Market (95-110). UK: Bloomsbury Academic
Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester (2022)
Book Chapter
Willis, A., & Hayward, R. (2022). Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester. In L. Tsitsou, H. Rana, & B. Wessels (Eds.), The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings. University of Sheffield: The Digital Humanities InstituteThis paper will discuss our curation of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema (CWinGC), a unique year-long programming initiative that took place across 2019 (and into 2020) at HOME, Manchester. It begins by outlining HOME’s cinema offer, identifying ho... Read More about Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester.
Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester (2022)
Book Chapter
Willis, A., & Hayward, R. (2022). Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester. In L. Tsitsou, H. Rana, & B. Wessels (Eds.), The Formation of Film Audiences: Conference Proceedings. University of Sheffield: The Digital Humanities InstituteThis paper will discuss our curation of Celebrating Women in Global Cinema (CWinGC), a unique year-long programming initiative that took place across 2019 (and into 2020) at HOME, Manchester. It begins by outlining HOME’s cinema offer, identifying ho... Read More about Celebrating women in global cinema: curating a year-long programming initiative at HOME, Manchester.
Rapidly shifting landscapes : two case studies in the UK distribution and exhibition of Chinese language films in the twenty-first century (2020)
Book Chapter
Willis, A., & Elliott, F. (2020). Rapidly shifting landscapes : two case studies in the UK distribution and exhibition of Chinese language films in the twenty-first century. In L. Feng, & J. Aston (Eds.), Renegotiating film genres in East Asian cinemas and beyond (17-40). UK: Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55077-6_2This chapter considers the shifting industrial patterns of distributing and exhibiting Chinese-language films in the UK in the twenty-first century. Drawing upon their experiences as film curators, Willis and Elliott provide a detailed analysis of tw... Read More about Rapidly shifting landscapes : two case studies in the UK distribution and exhibition of Chinese language films in the twenty-first century.
British Chinese cinema and the struggle for recognition, even on the margins (2018)
Book Chapter
Chan, F., & Willis, A. (2018). British Chinese cinema and the struggle for recognition, even on the margins. In A. Thorpe, & D. Yeh (Eds.), Contesting British Chinese Culture (151-167). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71159-1
Manchester’s Chinese arts centre : a case study in strategic intervention (2018)
Book Chapter
Chan, F., & Willis, A. (2018). Manchester’s Chinese arts centre : a case study in strategic intervention. In A. Thorpe, & D. Yeh (Eds.), Contesting British Chinese Culture (101-116). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71159-1
Before and after the awful Dr Orloff : rethinking an early career “respectable” Jess Franco (2018)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2018). Before and after the awful Dr Orloff : rethinking an early career “respectable” Jess Franco. In A. Lázaro-Reboll, & I. Olney (Eds.), The Films of Jess Franco (41-63). Detroit, USA: Wayne State University Press
From killer snakes to taxi hunters : Hong Kong horror in an exploitation context (2018)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2018). From killer snakes to taxi hunters : Hong Kong horror in an exploitation context. In G. Bettinson, & D. Martin (Eds.), Hong Kong Horror Cinema (52-63). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press