Commissioned

  • ‘Fresh Off the Boat’ Hardly Alone

    During Fresh Off the Boat‘s first season, I was asked by the now-defunct KoreAm Magazine to write on the ABC sitcom from the perspective of a seasoned observer. By this point though, enough ink had already been spilled on the show, with takes ranging from the disappointed to the celebratory, and every wonderful nuance in

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  • Linda Lin Dai at Shaw Brothers

    This essay was commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for the impressive Linda Lin Dai retrospective they mounted in 2011. The essay can also be found at the ACMI website here. With the impact of Communist ideology on Chinese cinema after 1949, “the star” being replaced with “the film worker”, it was up to

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