Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present, and a Questionable Future (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789463722575)

Chris Berry is Professor of Film Studies at King's College London. His publications include The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement (Hong Kong University Press, 2010), co-edited with Lisa Rofel and Lu Xinyu. He was also a co-investigator on the AHRC project, 'Independent Cinema in China 1990-2017: State, Market, and Film Culture' (2019-2024). Luke Robinson is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies in the School of Media, Arts, and Humanities at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and was a co-investigator on the AHRC project, 'Independent Cinema in China 1990-2017: State, Market, and Film Culture' (2019-2024). Sabrina Qiong Yu is Professor of Film and Chinese Studies at Newcastle University, UK. Her research and publications focus on Chinese-language cinema, stardom and performance, gender and sexuality, and censorship. She leads the UK Research Council-funded project (2019-2024) on Chinese independent cinema and the establishment of the Chinese Independent Film Archive. Lydia Wu is a Newcastle University Academic Track Fellow in Culture and Creative Arts. She leads a five-year research project titled Decolonising Film Curation: Asian Cinemas as Method, supported by Newcastle University. She is also the founder of the Association for Curators and Programmers of Asian Cinemas (ACPAC).