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   Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier is an art historian and associate researcher at
the Centre for Historical Culture, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands.
She received her master’s degree in art history from the Université La Sorbonne
– Paris I in 1997, and her Ph.D from the Erasmus University in 2016. The subject
of her doctoral dissertation was ‘Images of Khmer Rouge atrocities, 1975-2015’.
She also works as curator and has organized exhibitions and projects in Israel,
France, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, and Thailand. She was the
recipient of a Leon Milman Memorial Fellowship at the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum in Washington DC (2012), a fellowship at the Stone Summer
Theory Institute at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois (2010),
and was researcher in the Theory Department at Jan van Eyck Academie in the
Netherlands (2005-2006).

   Yomi Braester is Byron and Alice Lockwood Professor in the Humanities and
Professor of Comparative Literature, Cinema and Media at the University of
Washington in Seattle, as well as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Beijing
Film Academy. He is also the co-editor of Journal of Chinese Cinemas. Among
his books are Witness Against History: Literature, Film, and Public Discourse in
Twentieth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 2003) and Painting the City
Red: Chinese Cinema and the Urban Contract (Duke University Press, 2010),
which won the Joseph Levenson Book Prize. Among his current book projects
is Cinephilia Besieged: Viewing Communities and the Ethics of the Image in the
People’s Republic of China, which is supported by a Guggenheim fellowship.

   Marco Dalla Gassa is Senior Lecturer at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His
academic research focuses on Asian cinema, orientalism, cinematic representation
of cultural differences, auteur theory and film analysis. He has collaborated with
several organizations dealing with the promotion and education of cinema (the
Turin National Museum of Cinema, the Venetian film archive ‘Casa del cinema’,
the ‘Festival dei Popoli’ of Florence). He has been a researcher for the Italian
National Childhood and Adolescence Documentation and Analysis Centre. He
has edited and written several academic publications (essays and reviews) in

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peer-reviewed journals and magazines. His main books are two monographic
studies about Abbas Kiarostami (2001) and Zhang Yimou (2003, with Fabrizio
Colamartino), a volume on contemporary Far East cinema (2010, with Dario
Tomasi), a film analysis of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Rashōmon (2012) and a
dissertation about orientalism and exoticism in modernist European cinema
(2016). He is co-curator of the section ‘Global Film Cultures’ of the academic
journal Cinergie: Il cinema e le altre arti.

   Kristian Feigelson is a sociologist and Professor at Université Sorbonne
Nouvelle – Paris 3 where he teaches film studies. He has contributed to various
journals and has published numerous works on Russian cinema and Soviet
Union film culture. He co-edited Bollywood: Industrie des images (a special issue
of Théorème, 16, 2012). His recent publications include La Fabrique filmique:
Métiers et professions (Armand Colin, 2011).

  Pepita Hesselberth is Assistant Professor in Film and Literary Studies at
Leiden University, and research fellow at the Department of Arts and Cultural
Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Her research interests revolve around
questions concerning the production of subjectivity and the fabric of the social
within our increasingly global, networked, and media-saturated society. She is the
author of Cinematic Chonotopes (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the editor of Compact
Cinematics: The Moving Image in the Age of Bit-Sized Media (Bloomsbury, 2016,
together with Maria Poulaki) and Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines
(Brill, 2018). She is currently working on her project on Disconnectivity in
the Digital Age, for which she received a two-year fellowship from the Danish
Council for Independent Research (2015-2018).

   Man-tat Terence Leung received his Ph.D. degree in Humanities and Creative
Writing in 2014. Several of his essays on various subjects, including Kieslowski’s
late ethical-political cinema and Godard-Gorin’s post-1968 militant films, have
been published in internationally refereed edited volumes. His paper on Milan
Kundera’s historical novel Life Is Elsewhere in relation to the Prague/Paris 1968
was published by peer-reviewed journal Partial Answers: Journal of Literature
and the History of Ideas (15.1, 2017). He is now preparing his first monograph,
tentatively entitled The Dialectics of Two Refusals: French May ’68 and Its Chinese
Nexus in Western Cinematic Imaginaries. Leung is currently a full-time lecturer
in General Education (specializing in Film, Cultural and Chinese Studies) in
the School of Professional Education and Executive Development (SPEED) at
Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

  Corrado Neri is Associate Professor at the Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3. He
has conducted extensive research on Chinese cinema in Beijing and Taipei and
published many articles on books and magazine (in English, French and Italian).
His book Tsai Ming-liang on the Taiwanese film director appeared in 2004. Ages

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Inquiets. Cinémas chinois: une représentation de la jeunesse, was printed in 2009.
His third book, Retro Taiwan, has recently been published for l’Asiathèque
(2016). He co-edited (with Kirstie Gormley) a bilingual (French/English) book
on Taiwan cinema (Taiwan Cinema/Le Cinéma taiwanais, 2009), and Global
Fences (with Florent Villard, 2011).

   Sanghita Sen is a researcher and tutor in the Department of Film Studies at
the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She has a doctoral degree from Jadavpur
University for her research on nationalism(s) and popular aesthetics in post-
1992 Indian advertisements. Between 1997 and 2015 she worked in India as an
Associate Professor of English. She is currently pursuing her second doctoral
project, researching the representation of the Naxal Movement in Indian
cinema. Her research interests include Marxism, feminism, post-colonialism,
popular cinema and culture, political cinema and documentaries. She curates
film programmes and writes English subtitles for films in Bengali and Hindi
languages.

   Wendy Xie is an Associate Professor of Chinese at Appalachian State
University. She received her doctorate in Comparative and Chinese Literature
from Yale University in 2010. At Appalachian State University, she teaches
Chinese language, cinema and literature courses. Her recent publications include
‘Japanese Idols in Trans-Cultural Reception: the Case of AKB48’ (in Visual Past,
2.1, 2015). Her current research interests include issues of emotion and intimacy
in Chinese and Japanese popular culture, especially in operatic and cinematic
narratives, in relation to the socio-political history of twentieth-century China
and Japan. She is currently completing a book project on veteran Hong Kong
director Li Han-hsiang. She is also collaborating with Dr. Xiaofei Tu on another
book project entitled J-Pop Goes to China: AKB48, SNH48 and Nationalism.

   Federico Zecca is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’ (Italy).
He is part of the editorial board of the journals Cinéma & Cie: International Film
Studies, Cinergie: Il cinema e le altre arti, L’avventura: International Journal of
Italian Film and Media Landscapes, and Porn Studies. He is a member of the
scientific committee of the Udine/Gorizia FilmForum and one of the coordinators
of the Porn Studies Section of the MAGIS – Gorizia International Film Studies
Spring School. He has published widely on intertextuality, intermediality, media
convergence, Italian popular cinema, and US pornography. Among his books:
Il cinema della convergenza. Industria, racconto, pubblico (2012, edited by),
Gli estremi dell’hard. Due saggi sul porno contemporaneo (2013, with Stephen
Maddison), Cinema e intermedialità. Modelli di traduzione (2013), and Porn after
Porn: Contemporary Alternative Pornographies (2014, co-edited with Enrico
Biasin and Giovanna Maina). He has recently co-edited Inside Gonzo Porn,
special issue of Porn Studies (2016, with Enrico Biasin).


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