All Outputs (10)

Popular cinema in an era of decline : politics, self-reflexivity and cinematic nostalgia in recent genre films from Hong Kong (2021)
Journal Article

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'.

'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)
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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

Special edition devoted to Hong Kong cinema since 1997 (2009)
Journal Article

Jim Allen : radical drama beyond 'days of hope' (2008)
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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'.

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