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Cinema Studies Affiliated Faculty


Poshek Fu




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Professor of History
Professor of Cinema Studies
Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures

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433c Gregory Hall, MC-466
810 S. Wright Street
Urbana, Illinois 61801
phone: (217) 244-20895
fax: (217) 333-2297
email: p-fu1@staff.illinois.edu
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Education
Ph.D. Stanford University


Major research interests
Film history and popular culture
Cultural politics of Chinese and Hong Kong cinema
Film culture and war and colonialism
Chinese-American cinema



Selected Publications
  • Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2003.
  • The Cinema of Hong Kong : History, Arts, Identity. (Editor, with David Desser, and contributor) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • "Telling A Woman's Story: Eileen Chang and The Invention of Woman's Film in Postwar China," in Law Kar ed., Transcending the Times: King Hu and Eileen Chang, Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1998.
  • "Projecting Ambivalence: Chinese Cinema in Semi-occupied Shanghai, 1937-1941," in W. Yeh ed., Wartime Shanghai, New York: Routledge, 1998.
  • "The Ambiguity of Entertainment: Chinese Cinema in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai, 1941-1945," Cinema Journal, 37:1 (Fall 1997).
  • "Decade of Turbulence: Modernity, Youth Culture, and Cantonese Filmmaking in Hong Kong, 1960-1970," in Law Kar ed., Hong Kong Cinema: Fifty Years of Electric Shadows, Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1997.
  • "Patriotism or Profit: Hong Hong Cinema During the Second World War," in Law Kar ed., Early Images of Hong Kong and China, Hong Kong: Urban Council, 1995.
  • Passivity, Resistance, and Collaboration: Intellectual Choices in Occupied Shanghai, 1937-1945. Stanford University Press, 1993 (paperback edition, 1996).




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