Jessica Ka Yee Chan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5840723 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Ka Yee Chan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica Ka Yee |
| FAMILY NAME | Chan |
| SIGNATURE | CHAN J K Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Richmond |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Postcolonial aging, amah, and diaspora in A Simple Life
Based on the life story of the Hong Kong film producer, Roger Lee, A Simple Life/Taojie (Ann Hui [2011] 2012) is a semi-fictional biographical film about the life of Taojie, an amah (Cantonese migrant domestic servant) who served three generations of Lee's family for more than sixty years. The intervention of this essay is two-fold. First, this essay situates A Simple Life in the burgeoning but understudied journalistic and documentary discourse …
The screen kiss in 1937
This article traces the evolution of the screen kiss and the discourse surrounding it in Republican Shanghai leftwing cinema in the 1930s. The period from the 1910s to the 1930s in semi-colonial Shanghai witnessed an influx of Hollywood motion pictures that featured the screen kiss. By the 1930s, the circulation of images of Hollywood screen kiss in semi-colonial Shanghai triggered erotic imagination, comparison with Hollywood norms and most impo…
Chinese Revolutionary Cinema
Anticipating action
In his formalist reading, David Bordwell (2001: 73, 80) uses the term pause-burst-pause pattern to refer to the cinematic expressivity of Hong Kong action cinema. Although the pause-burst-pause paradigm locates stasis and action that lie at the heart of the performance and cinematic representation of physical action, the pause-burst-pause punctuation undergoes aesthetic transformation in the digital age. Through a comparative analysis of five rep…
The screen kiss in 1937
This article traces the evolution of the screen kiss and the discourse surrounding it in Republican Shanghai leftwing cinema in the 1930s. The period from the 1910s to the 1930s in semi-colonial Shanghai witnessed an influx of Hollywood motion pictures that featured the screen kiss. By the 1930s, the circulation of images of Hollywood screen kiss in semi-colonial Shanghai triggered erotic imagination, comparison with Hollywood norms and most impo…
Anticipating action
In his formalist reading, David Bordwell (2001: 73, 80) uses the term pause-burst-pause pattern to refer to the cinematic expressivity of Hong Kong action cinema. Although the pause-burst-pause paradigm locates stasis and action that lie at the heart of the performance and cinematic representation of physical action, the pause-burst-pause punctuation undergoes aesthetic transformation in the digital age. Through a comparative analysis of five rep…
Chinese Revolutionary Cinema
The screen kiss in 1937
This article traces the evolution of the screen kiss and the discourse surrounding it in Republican Shanghai leftwing cinema in the 1930s. The period from the 1910s to the 1930s in semi-colonial Shanghai witnessed an influx of Hollywood motion pictures that featured the screen kiss. By the 1930s, the circulation of images of Hollywood screen kiss in semi-colonial Shanghai triggered erotic imagination, comparison with Hollywood norms and most impo…
Postcolonial aging, amah, and diaspora in A Simple Life
Based on the life story of the Hong Kong film producer, Roger Lee, A Simple Life/Taojie (Ann Hui [2011] 2012) is a semi-fictional biographical film about the life of Taojie, an amah (Cantonese migrant domestic servant) who served three generations of Lee's family for more than sixty years. The intervention of this essay is two-fold. First, this essay situates A Simple Life in the burgeoning but understudied journalistic and documentary discourse …
Art (3 works) · Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)