Professor
Advising duties:
Acting Chair, Fall 2009Areas of Expertise:
Chinese Cinema, postmodernism, Post Colonial CinemaOffice:
Fine Arts Building, Room 415Phone:
(415) 338-1072E-mail:
jlau3000@yahoo.comOffice Hours:
Thursdays 2:30-3:30 p.m., FA 245 (Cinema Department office); Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 p.m., FA 415
Education
- Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, Northwestern University
Areas of Expertise
- Pan Chinese Cinema
- Post Colonial Cinema
- Post Modern Discourse
Books
- Multiple Modernities. Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia, Editor. Temple University Press, 2003.
Book Chapters
- Chinese Cinema Revisits the City: Beijing Trilogy and Global Urbanism of the Nineties, in Chinese Connections: Critical Perspectives on Film, Identity, and Diaspora. Ed. Gina Marchetti and Peter X. Feng. Temple University Press, 2009.
- Peking Opera Blues: Imploding Genre, Gender, and History, in Film Analysis: A Norton Reader. ed. Jeffrey Geiger and R.L. Rutsky. Publisher: W.W. Norton, 2005.
- Judou—A Hermeneutical Reading of Cross-Cultural Cinema, (reprint) in Celluloid China: Cinematic Encounters with Culture and Society. ed. Harry Kuoshu. Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
- Besides Fists and Blood: Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema and its Comedy Master, (reprint) in Cinema of Hong Kong: History, Arts, Identity. ed. David Desser and Poshek Fu. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Encyclopedic Entry
- History of Hong Kong Cinema and Wong Kar-Wei, in Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film. Editor-in-Chief. Berry Keith Grant. Shirmer Referrence, Forthcoming.
Honors and Awards
- Marquis Who’s Who of American Women, Marquis Publications, 2006-2007
- Marquis Who’s Who in America, Marquis Publications, 2004
- Faculty Summer Research Grant, SFSU, 2003
- Faculty Research Awards, SFSU, 2002, 2003, 2004
