Man-Fung Yip

Ex-officio member

Biography

Man-Fung Yip is Chair and Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation (HKU Press, 2017) and co-editor of American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows (Routledge, 2015) and The Cold war and Asian Cinemas (Routledge, 2019). His current research is focused on the cultural Cold War in Asian cinema.

Degrees

Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago M.Phil., Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology B.Soc.Sc., Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Teaching and Research Interests

Chinese-language/Asian film; theories of national and transnational cinema; the cultural Cold War; cinema, mass culture, and modernity

Selected Publications

Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017.

Co-editor, The Cold War and Asian Cinemas. New York: Routledge, 2020.

Co-editor, American and Chinese-Language Cinemas: Examining Cultural Flows. New York: Routledge, 2015.

"Cinematic Solidarity and International Revolutionary Commitment: Cuban Documentaries on Vietnam," The Global Sixties, forthcoming.

"'All of Us Are Part of the Monster': Toxic Sublimity and Ethical Reflexivity in Zhao Liang's Behemoth," in Chinese Cinema in Global Context. Eds. Jing Jing Chang, Jeffery Kyong- McClain, and Russell Meeuf. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022.

"Art in Propaganda: The Poetics and Politics of Vietnamese Revolutionary Cinema," in The Cold War and Asian Cinema. Eds. Poshek Fu and Man-Fung Yip. New York: Routledge, 2020.

"Closely Watched Films: Surveillance and Postwar Hong Kong Leftist Cinema," in Surveillance in Asian Cinema: Under Eastern Eyes. Ed. Karen Fang. New York: Routledge, 2017.