Virginia Crisp
Virginia is researching the marketing and distribution of East Asian cinema in the West and how the practices of this sector of the film industry impacts on the international face of East Asian cinema, people and culture. She is interested in how East Asian films get selected for international release, what themes in these films are highlighted or downplayed, what the new 'extreme' Asian cinema is and what image of the East such a categorisation suggests?
Virginia has a BA in Social and Cultural Studies with Film Studies from Nottingham University and an MA in Film Studies from UCL. Her work to date has focused on subcultural capital and the 'popular' in online anime fan communities and statelessness and timelessness in the work of Otomo Katsuhiro and Miyazaki Hayao.