Olivia Khoo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 372127 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Olivia Khoo |
| NOMBRES | Olivia |
| APELLIDO | Khoo |
| FIRMA | KHOO O |
| AFILIACIONES | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8383-8877 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 42 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1970 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Doing screen diversity in Australia
This article provides a critical overview of a decade (2015-2025) of interventions undertaken by Australia’s federal, state and territory screen development agencies, and by the public broadcasters ABC and SBS, to address underrepresentation in the Australian screen industry. As in many countries, Australia has seen a recent surge in diversity actions, policies, roadmaps and commitments. We examine the types of interventions which have multiplied…
Queen of Netflix
In 2017, Netflix announced that it had entered into an exclusive multi-year development deal with award-winning American producer and writer Shonda Rhimes. Under this deal, all of Rhimes's future productions (made under her company Shondaland) would be Netflix Originals. This article examines Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte to consider how the traditional period drama has been transformed, in this case through colour-blind and colour-conscious cas…
Sparking Joy and the Exhaustion of Racism
This paper examines two examples of performances and projects that speak to enduring categories of racial objectification, including the relationship of racial subjects to things (objects) themselves. The first is the global phenomenon of Marie Kondo, whose bestselling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and associated Netflix series Tidying Up, are the basis of a multi-million dollar industry based on the trademarked KonMari method, which…
Streaming diversity
The unprecedented growth of video-on-demand (VOD) streaming platforms has brought both new optimism and new complications to concerns around screen ‘diversity’. To what extent have major global and smaller regional VOD platforms invested in screen diversity, at the level of genres, languages, country-of-origin, social representation or creative labour? Just how ‘diverse’ are the catalogues of VOD services? How is this content represented to audie…
Projecting China to the world
Accompanying the increasing immersiveness of cinema in the past two decades, represented by the wide application of 3D technologies, large format screens and experiments with high frame rates, China has developed its own domestic projection technology called Cinity since the late 2010s. This article examines the development of Cinity within the context of China’s global technological film aspirations and its desire to project Chinese films, and C…
Picturing Diversity
This essay asks two related questions: what is unique about streaming services (and Netflix specifically), that generates a greater investment in the diversity of its content, and how does the technology associated with streaming, in particular algorithmic recommendation systems, facilitate an engagement with diversity and inclusion? To answer these questions the essay considers the relationship between Netflix’s Inclusion Strategy, its Recommend…
Asian Cinema
Asia’s film industries have undergone significant transformation in the last 30 years. From bilateral co-production agreements to pan-Asian financing, Asian cinema has assumed a regional identity beyond its constituent national cinemas. This book examines the dynamic industrial and cultural developments that have enabled greater co-operation and integration between Asia’s film industries. It brings a much-needed focus on how collaborative Asian f…
Asian Cinema
Studies the dynamic industrial and cultural transformations that have produced a regional Asian cinema in the last three decadesIncludes case studies that illustrate collaborative models of film production, distribution, exhibition and reception that have shaped a regional Asian cinema in the last three decadesOffers a new framework that synthesises Euro-American film studies approaches and inter-Asia cultural studies methodologiesContributes to …
A voice for elephants
One of cinema’s foundational films, Thomas Edison’s 60-second actuality film Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) documents the tragic circumstances surrounding the first appearance of an elephant on screen. As the title makes explicit, the film records the killing of an Asian elephant named Topsy, a circus performer, in front of a small crowd at Coney Island. Topsy was fed poisoned carrots, electrocuted and strangled, with the electrocution ultimate…
Introduction
Although it has long been considered a non-Asian country located in Asia, Australia is increasingly linked to Asian media circuits, and the rise of the Asian media industries is changing Australian media culture. At the level of consumption, Asian media content – from Bollywood film to Japanese TV to Chinese online video to Korean social media and K-pop – is now more readily accessible than ever to media users in Australia due to broadband connec…
Drone feminism
This paper considers how women filmmakers are using installation in gallery spaces to find alternative ways of telling feminist stories. Focusing on the exhibition “Astro Noise” by Laura Poitras, best known for her documentaries on Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, the paper considers how technology and surveillance operate in Poitras’ exhibition to produce a form of “drone feminism” that visualises spectatorial engagement and embodiment in the …
Diaspora as method
What is the place of the diasporas within the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies movement, and how can Asian diasporas in the West contribute to Inter-Asia's intellectual project of “problematising Asia”? Developing a notion of diaspora as method, this essay highlights the complementary relationship between the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies network. It argues that the Inter-Asia network has much to gain fr…
Embodied Modernities
From feminist philosophy to genetic science, scholarship in recent years has succeeded in challenging many entrenched assumptions about the material and biological status of human bodies. Likewise in the study of Chinese cultures, accelerating globalization and the resultant hybridity have called into question previous assumptions about the boundaries of Chinese national and ethnic identity. The problem of identifying a single or definitive refer…
Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
Short circuits of Southeast Asian cinema
Short films are the new movies of the social web age
Intimate entanglements
When we think of new media today, an image of the ubiquitous smartphone user comes to mind. New media, entangled with gestures of intimacy, are increasingly becoming mainstream as mobile devices further embed within our everyday spaces. In each location, new media is shaping, and being shaped by, place in different ways. Haunted with traces of older media, what constitutes new media today is changing as mobile devices afford new access to multime…
Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia
"Australia's "Asian Century
In late September 2013, Australian news media reported on two very different events related to journeys across the ocean straits that separate Australia from Indonesia. On the evening of September 26th, an Indonesian fishing boat carrying eighty refugees from northern Lebanon who intended to seek asylum in Australia foundered off a West Java beach. The boat sank the following day. Thirty-one people who had been onboard drowned. Some of those who …
Framing Sinophone Cinemas
Sinophone Cinemas
Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from Britai
Missing water
Australia's cultural and political life is dominated by the image of the boat, most recently in the form of border anxiety concerning asylum seekers arriving by boat from the north. In this context, it is surprising to note the cinematic refrain of a literal absence of boats in Asian Australian ‘boat stories’ on screen, by which the visual iconography of the boat (as a physical object) is disavowed at the same time as it is underscored and over-e…
Wong Kawaii
The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema
Singaporean filmmaker Sun Koh's short film Dirty Bitch (Tu Nu [兔女], 2009) was inspired by a violently censored VHS copy of Claire Denis's Nénette et Boni (France, 1996) found by the director at the Singapore public library. While the film can be read as an homage to a well-known French female auteur and to her provocative exploration of youthful sexual identity and fantasy, Koh's condensed-form queer interpretation circulates more productively as…
Bad Jokes, Bad English, Good Copy
Miike Takashi’s Sukiyaki Western Django is a contemporary remake of Sergio Corbucci’s Spaghetti Western Django. In this updated Japanese version all of the characters speak English and there is a notable cameo appearance by Quentin Tarantino that references the continuous series of filmic exchanges that have taken place between Asia and the West, most notably in the context of action cinema. Rather than conceiving of the various movements and exc…
Transnational Australian Cinema
Chapter 1: Reframing Australian Cinema: Transnationalism, Ethics, and Asian Australian Cinema Part A. Reframing National Cinema History Chapter 2: Asian Stereotypes in 1920s Australian Cinema: The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and Lover Chapter 3: Colombo Plan Documentary: Australia and Asia in the Postwar Era Chapter 4: The Transnationalisation of the Australian Western: Japanese-Australian Productions in the Late 1960s Part B. Australia's Film Rena…
Asian Americans and the media
Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham, Cambridge and Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2009, 235 pp., US$26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7456-4274-1 The topic of ‘Asian Americans and the media’ can be approached f
Telling Stories
This paper analyses the representation of Asians in four important Australian films produced in the last two and a half decades: Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously, Stephen Wallaces Turtle Beach, Craig Lahiff's Heaven’s Burning and Sue Brooks’ Japanese Story. It argues that the cinematic encounter between Asians and Australians results in the sacrifice of the Asian character and that this is tied to the development of an Australian natio…
Picturing Diversity
This essay asks two related questions: what is unique about streaming services (and Netflix specifically), that generates a greater investment in the diversity of its content, and how does the technology associated with streaming, in particular algorithmic recommendation systems, facilitate an engagement with diversity and inclusion? To answer these questions the essay considers the relationship between Netflix’s Inclusion Strategy, its Recommend…
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Diaspora as method
What is the place of the diasporas within the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies movement, and how can Asian diasporas in the West contribute to Inter-Asia's intellectual project of “problematising Asia”? Developing a notion of diaspora as method, this essay highlights the complementary relationship between the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies network. It argues that the Inter-Asia network has much to gain fr…
Missing water
Australia's cultural and political life is dominated by the image of the boat, most recently in the form of border anxiety concerning asylum seekers arriving by boat from the north. In this context, it is surprising to note the cinematic refrain of a literal absence of boats in Asian Australian ‘boat stories’ on screen, by which the visual iconography of the boat (as a physical object) is disavowed at the same time as it is underscored and over-e…
Australian cinema up in the air
This paper examines Peter Duncan's film Unfinished Sky as an example of post-national Australian cinema. Addressing dominant frameworks in Australian film criticism that focus on the concept of the national, the paper argues that the ‘national’ has in fact been reconfigured in the cinema of the new millennium, placing it within a post-national or regional environment. In several recent Australian films there has been an increased engagement with …
Slang images
After having lain dormant for some 20 years during 1973 and 1991, the Singaporean film industry is experiencing a revival. Films produced since the early 1990s have been resolutely ‘local’ in their portrayals in an effort to ground this emergent cinematic modernity. Only a handful of these films have, however, received any international attention; most remain ‘too local’, ‘too colloquial’ to be exported further afield. This paper explores those v…
Folding Chinese boxes
(2000). Folding Chinese boxes: Asian exoticism in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 24, Diaspora Negotiating Asian‐Australia, pp. 200-208
Diasporic Hybridity on Australian Screens
The cultural diversity of Australian films, while a fixture on our screens, is not often remarked upon in any depth, save for studies of individual (usually commercially successful) films and directors. This is in marked contrast to the high-profile public commentary on race relations and ethnic tensions between Australia's immigrant groups
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Folding Chinese boxes
(2000). Folding Chinese boxes: Asian exoticism in Australia. Journal of Australian Studies: Vol. 24, Diaspora Negotiating Asian‐Australia, pp. 200-208
Sexing the City
Slang images
After having lain dormant for some 20 years during 1973 and 1991, the Singaporean film industry is experiencing a revival. Films produced since the early 1990s have been resolutely ‘local’ in their portrayals in an effort to ground this emergent cinematic modernity. Only a handful of these films have, however, received any international attention; most remain ‘too local’, ‘too colloquial’ to be exported further afield. This paper explores those v…
Telling Stories
This paper analyses the representation of Asians in four important Australian films produced in the last two and a half decades: Peter Weir's The Year of Living Dangerously, Stephen Wallaces Turtle Beach, Craig Lahiff's Heaven’s Burning and Sue Brooks’ Japanese Story. It argues that the cinematic encounter between Asians and Australians results in the sacrifice of the Asian character and that this is tied to the development of an Australian natio…
The Chinese Exotic
This book examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging from Asia Pacific modernities since the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of cultural artefacts such as films, popular fiction, food, and fashion cultures, the book challenges the dominant tendency in contemporary cultural politics to define Chinese femininity from a mainland perspective that furthermore equates it with notions of primitivism. Rather, it arg…
Cinemas of value
This article examines the use of realist aesthetics in three Australian films, Dee McLachlan's The Jammed (2007), Khoa Do's The Finished People (2003) and M. Frank's Ra Choi (2005) as a way of creating ‘value’ within the terms of an Australian national cinema. These films, among other examples of an emergent ‘Asian Australian cinema’, deploy techniques of realism to build an authenticity of experience for spectators, unfamiliar with seeing portra…
Introduction
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
Futures of Chinese cinema
With the burgeoning interest in Chinese film, this interdisciplinary collection investigates how new technologies, changing production constraints and shifting viewing practices have shaped perceptions of Chinese cinema. It contains essays submitted by international scholars for a workshop held the University of New South Wales in 2006 to consider new directions in Chinese cinema. After the devastation of the economic crisis, the uncertainty of t…
Tokyo drifting
One of Japan's major film production companies, the Toei Corporation, produced a little-known (to most Australians) film entitled The Drifting Avenger in 1968. The film is unique in being a western set in America but shot in Australia with a predominantly Australian cast and produced for Japanese audiences. This article examines both the Japanese and Australian contexts surrounding the film, characterizing The Drifting Avenger an Asian Australian…
Regional approaches to trafficking in women in South-East Asia
This article examines historical efforts that have been made to address the issue of trafficking in women in South-East Asia, with a focus on regional approaches to the problem. In light of recent political developments in the subregion, the article will also assess what impact, if any, the introduction of a new ASEAN human rights body late in 2009 will have on the human rights of trafficked persons. The article argues that, in the absence of est…
Shrimp Western
Ken Takakura, one of Japan's most recognized actors, found himself virtually in the middle of nowhere when he landed in Nundle, Australia, to shoot the Western, Koya No Toseinin/The Drifting Avenger, directed by Junya Sato in 1968.1 Known colloquially outside of Japan as The Japanese Clint Eastwood and well-known for his roles in action and Yakuza films, Takakura was perfect as the brooding, angry, yet kind-hearted Ken, who seeks vengeance agains…
Asian Americans and the media
Kent A. Ono and Vincent N. Pham, Cambridge and Malden, MA, Polity Press, 2009, 235 pp., US$26.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-7456-4274-1 The topic of ‘Asian Americans and the media’ can be approached f
Australian cinema up in the air
This paper examines Peter Duncan's film Unfinished Sky as an example of post-national Australian cinema. Addressing dominant frameworks in Australian film criticism that focus on the concept of the national, the paper argues that the ‘national’ has in fact been reconfigured in the cinema of the new millennium, placing it within a post-national or regional environment. In several recent Australian films there has been an increased engagement with …
Regionalizing Asian Australian identities
The majority of essays in this collection arose out of the 3rd Asian Australian Identities (AAI3) conference held at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, from 10–11 November 2009. Buildin
Chinese Media Studies from an Inter-Asian Perspective
This article interrogates what might be considered specifically 'Chinese' about Chinese media studies. Examining Chinese media studies from the complementary perspectives of Inter-Asian cultural studies and diasporic interventions into Chinese media, the article seeks to define (and to extend) the current limits of the field as it has emerged in both teaching and research. In doing so, it considers what has hitherto constituted the 'legitimate' o…
Bad Jokes, Bad English, Good Copy
Miike Takashi’s Sukiyaki Western Django is a contemporary remake of Sergio Corbucci’s Spaghetti Western Django. In this updated Japanese version all of the characters speak English and there is a notable cameo appearance by Quentin Tarantino that references the continuous series of filmic exchanges that have taken place between Asia and the West, most notably in the context of action cinema. Rather than conceiving of the various movements and exc…
Transnational Australian Cinema
Chapter 1: Reframing Australian Cinema: Transnationalism, Ethics, and Asian Australian Cinema Part A. Reframing National Cinema History Chapter 2: Asian Stereotypes in 1920s Australian Cinema: The Cook, the Thief, the Wife and Lover Chapter 3: Colombo Plan Documentary: Australia and Asia in the Postwar Era Chapter 4: The Transnationalisation of the Australian Western: Japanese-Australian Productions in the Late 1960s Part B. Australia's Film Rena…
Framing Sinophone Cinemas
Sinophone Cinemas
Sinophone Cinemas considers a range of multilingual, multidialect and multi-accented cinemas produced in Chinese-language locations outside mainland China. It showcases new screen cultures from Britai
Missing water
Australia's cultural and political life is dominated by the image of the boat, most recently in the form of border anxiety concerning asylum seekers arriving by boat from the north. In this context, it is surprising to note the cinematic refrain of a literal absence of boats in Asian Australian ‘boat stories’ on screen, by which the visual iconography of the boat (as a physical object) is disavowed at the same time as it is underscored and over-e…
Wong Kawaii
The Minor Transnationalism of Queer Asian Cinema
Singaporean filmmaker Sun Koh's short film Dirty Bitch (Tu Nu [兔女], 2009) was inspired by a violently censored VHS copy of Claire Denis's Nénette et Boni (France, 1996) found by the director at the Singapore public library. While the film can be read as an homage to a well-known French female auteur and to her provocative exploration of youthful sexual identity and fantasy, Koh's condensed-form queer interpretation circulates more productively as…
Sociology (24 obras) · Art (21 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (20 obras) · History (19 obras) · Movie theater (18 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Media studies (17 obras) · Art history (13 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (13 obras) · Geography (11 obras)