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 Institute

This 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_2

This 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.

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

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

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

An icon rises from the grave : the 21st century cult stardom of Paul Naschy (2017)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2017). An icon rises from the grave : the 21st century cult stardom of Paul Naschy. In J. Mari (Ed.), Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television. New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)

Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director (2017)
Book Chapter
Fairclough, K., & Willis, A. (2017). Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director. In N. Morris (Ed.), A Companion to Steven Spielberg (466-478). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118726747.ch26

This chapter looks at Steven Spielberg's career at different stages, considering how it can be read as emblematic of the rise of what might be termed the celebrity director. By the early 1970s, when a new young generation of directors found their way... Read More about Steven Spielberg and the rise of the celebrity film director.

North Square, New Street Law and Outlaws : class and race in recent northern legal television drama (2017)
Book Chapter
Pal, S., & Willis, A. (2017). North Square, New Street Law and Outlaws : class and race in recent northern legal television drama. In E. Mazierska (Ed.), Heading North: The North of England in Film and Television (173-192). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52500-6

'Crossing Hennessy', 'Big Blue Lake' and 'Flowing Stories': Re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong Cinema (2016)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2016). 'Crossing Hennessy', 'Big Blue Lake' and 'Flowing Stories': Re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong Cinema. In F. Chan, & A. Willis (Eds.), Chinese Cinemas : International Perspectives (84-95). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315691893-7

A number of observers of the Hong Kong film industry have identified and discussed the seemingly inexorable drift of major Hong Kong creative talents towards the perceived riches and box office rewards on offer in mainland China. At the same time as... Read More about 'Crossing Hennessy', 'Big Blue Lake' and 'Flowing Stories': Re-centring the local in recent Hong Kong Cinema.

Violence, style and politics : the influence of the Giallo in Spanish cinema of the 1970s (2015)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2015). Violence, style and politics : the influence of the Giallo in Spanish cinema of the 1970s. In E. Oliete (Ed.), Global genres / local films : the transnational dimension of Spanish cinema (103-114). London: Bloomsbury Academic

Film Noir, Hong Kong cinema and the limits of critical transplant (2015)
Book Chapter
Willis, A. (2015). Film Noir, Hong Kong cinema and the limits of critical transplant. In C. Shin, & M. Gallagher (Eds.), East Asian Film Noir: Transnational Encounters and Intercultural Dialogue (163-178). UK: I B Tauris (Bloomsbury)

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

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

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

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

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