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Gina Marchetti

Chairperson of Humanities and Media Studies

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Email
gmarchet@pratt.edu
Phone
718.399.4512
Websites
Hong Kong Women Filmmaker
Hong Kong Cinema through a Global Lens
Transnational China in the Twenty-First Century
Pronouns
She/Her/Hers
Gina MARCHETTI serves as Chair of the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Her books include Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (California, 1993), From Tian’anmen to Times Square: Transnational China and the Chinese Diaspora on Global Screens (Temple, 2006), The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Temple, 2012), Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs—The Trilogy (HKUP, 2007), and Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Hawai’i, 2018). Her research and teaching interests encompass critical and cultural theory, world cinema, Asian and Asian American women filmmakers, and depictions of China and the Chinese diaspora on global screens.
Ph.D., Film, Northwestern University

From Cruel Optimism to Comforting Pessimism: Sex, Gender, Feminism and Hong Kong Protest Culture, October 1–December 31, 2019,” Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context 15:2 (2022).

The Networked Storyteller and Her Digital Tale: Film Festivals and Ann Hui’s ‘My Way‘”, Global Storytelling: Journal of Digital and Moving Images 1:2 (2022)

Where in the World are Chinese Women Filmmakers? Transnational China and World Cinema in the Twenty-First Century.” Studies in World Cinema (published online ahead of print 2021)

Teaching Online on Borrowed Time: Hong Kong Protests, Pandemics, and MOOCs,” Jump Cut #60 (Spring 2021)

Chinese Film Studies Online: Technological Innovations, Pedagogical Challenges, and Teaching Chinese-Language Cinema in the Digital Age,” Journal of Chinese Film Studies, March 11, 2021

Sexual Citizenship and Social Justice in the HKSAR: Evans Chan’s Raise the Umbrellas (2016),” Jump Cut #59 (Fall 2019)

The Gendered Politics of Sex Work in Hong Kong Cinema: Herman Yau and Elsa Chan (Yeeshan)’s Whispers and Moans and True Women for Sale,” Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 10 (Winter 2015). Web. ISSN: 2009-4078.

Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism, and World Cinema (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2018)

The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens: Race, Sex, and Cinema (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012)

Romance and the “Yellow Peril”: Race, Sex, and Discursive Strategies in Hollywood Fiction (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993