All Outputs (45)

East asian film stars (2014)
Book
(2014). A. Willis, & W. Leung (Eds.), East asian film stars. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan

East Asian Film Stars brings together some of the world's leading cinema scholars to offer their insights into the work of regional and transnational screen legends, contemporary superstars and mysterious cult personas. This collection of original es... Read More about East asian film stars.

British Chinese short films : challenging the limits of the Sinophone (2014)
Book Chapter
Willis, A., & Chan, F. (2014). British Chinese short films : challenging the limits of the Sinophone. In A. Yue, & O. Khoo (Eds.), Sinophone Cinemas (169-184). Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137311207_10

In an article published in a special issue of the Journal for Chinese Cinemas, considering the possibility of shifting transnational Chinese film studies from a diasporic framework to a Sinophonic one, we argued for the retention of the former agains... Read More about British Chinese short films : challenging the limits of the Sinophone.

Amando de Ossario’s “bind dead” quartet and the cultural politics of Spanish horror (2013)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2013). Amando de Ossario’s “bind dead” quartet and the cultural politics of Spanish horror. In L. Hunt, S. Lockyear, & M. Williamson (Eds.), Screening the Undead: Vampires and zombies in film and television (233-248). London: I B Tauris

Neo-Noir: The cultural significance (and insignificance) of a film style (2013)
Journal Article
Willis, A. (2013). Neo-Noir: The cultural significance (and insignificance) of a film style. Film International, 11(5), 31-37

A critique is presented of the films "Hustle" directed by Robert Aldrich and "Night Moves" directed by Arthur Penn, focusing on the films' relation to American film noir from the 1940s and 1950s. The social and political aspects of films, social chan... Read More about Neo-Noir: The cultural significance (and insignificance) of a film style.

Articulating British Chinese experiences on-screen: 'soursweet' and 'ping pong' (2012)
Journal Article
Chan, F., & Willis, A. (2012). Articulating British Chinese experiences on-screen: 'soursweet' and 'ping pong'. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 6(1), 27-39. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcc.6.1.27_1

The notion of the Sinophone according to Shu-mei Shih attempts takes the delineation of Chinese identities out of ethno-geographic boundaries into linguistic communities. In the case of Chinese cinemas, the emphasis on linguistic communities fails to... Read More about Articulating British Chinese experiences on-screen: 'soursweet' and 'ping pong'.

Memory banks failing: 'Life on Mars' and the politics of re-imagining the police and the seventies (2012)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2012). Memory banks failing: 'Life on Mars' and the politics of re-imagining the police and the seventies. In Life on Mars: from Manchester to New York (57-69). Cardiff: University of Wales Press

Paul Naschy, "Exorcismo" and the reactionary horrors of Spanish popular cinema in the early 1970s (2012)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2012). Paul Naschy, "Exorcismo" and the reactionary horrors of Spanish popular cinema in the early 1970s. In P. Allmer, E. Brick, & D. Huxley (Eds.), European nightmares: Horror cinema in Europe since 1946 (121-131). New York: Columbia University Press

'Painted skin': negotiating mainland china's fear of the supernatural (2011)
Journal Article
Willis, A. (2011). 'Painted skin': negotiating mainland china's fear of the supernatural

Cinema curation as practice and research: the Visible Secrets project as a model for collaboration between art cinemas and academics (2010)
Journal Article
Willis, A. (2010). Cinema curation as practice and research: the Visible Secrets project as a model for collaboration between art cinemas and academics. Screen, 51(2), 161-167. https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjq013

The lost world of Twemlow and Kent-Watson: Mancunian exploitation film in the 1980s and 1990s (2009)
Journal Article
Willis, A., & Lee, C. (2009). The lost world of Twemlow and Kent-Watson: Mancunian exploitation film in the 1980s and 1990s. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 6(1), 58-72. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452109000685

More than simply cowboys, naked virgins, werewolves and vampires? The transatlantic cinema of Leon Klimovsky (2009)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2009). More than simply cowboys, naked virgins, werewolves and vampires? The transatlantic cinema of Leon Klimovsky. In V. Ruetalo, & D. Tierney (Eds.), Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and latin America (129-141). New York: Routledge

Special edition devoted to Hong Kong cinema since 1997 (2009)
Journal Article
Willis, A., & Perks, S. (2009). Special edition devoted to Hong Kong cinema since 1997. Film International, 7(4),

Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope' (2008)
Journal Article
Willis, A. (2008). Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 5(2), 300-317. https://doi.org/10.3366/E1743452108000381

Due to a desire to establish television as a serious medium, television drama has often been seen as a forum for writers, with names such as David Mercer, Dennis Potter and Trevor Griffiths identified by critics as the driving force, or auteur, behin... Read More about Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope'.

The cinema of Alex de la Iglesia (2007)
Book
Willis, A., Triana-Toribio, N., & Buse, P. (2007). The cinema of Alex de la Iglesia. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool (2004)
Journal Article
Buse, P., Triana-Toribio, N., & Willis, A. (2004). A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool. New Cinemas, 2(3), 139-148. https://doi.org/10.1386/ncin.2.3.139/1

This article looks at how Álex de la Iglesia can be studied using reviewed auteurist strategies. Such a study has to take into account how he constructs his persona as director in a process which deviates greatly from the images and roles allocated t... Read More about A popular Spanish auteur: Alex de la Iglesia as a polemical tool.

Este no es juego, es Accion Mutante: The provocations of Alex de la Iglesia (2004)
Journal Article
Buse, P., Triana-toribio, N., & Willis, A. (2004). Este no es juego, es Accion Mutante: The provocations of Alex de la Iglesia. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies, 10(1), 9-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1470184042000236242

Film stars: Hollywood and beyond (2004)
Book
Willis, A. (2004). Film stars: Hollywood and beyond. Manchester, UK: Manchester Univesity Press

Spanish popular cinema (2004)
Book
Willis, A., & Lázaro-Reboll, A. (2004). Spanish popular cinema. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

Defining cult movies: the cultural politics of oppositional taste (2003)
Book
Willis, A., Reboll, A., Stringer, J., & Jancovich, M. (2003). Defining cult movies: the cultural politics of oppositional taste. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press

The cultural politics of re-making Spanish horror films in the twenty-first century : Quarantine and Come Out and Play
Book Chapter
Willis, A. The cultural politics of re-making Spanish horror films in the twenty-first century : Quarantine and Come Out and Play. In I. Smith, & C. Verevis (Eds.), Transnational Film Remakes (54-65). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press