Su-Anne Yeo
Transnational Screens and Asia Pacific Public Cultures: Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, 1997-2007
Su-Anne is currently completing her PhD thesis under the supervision of Professor Chris Berry.
Her project seeks to understand how globalization is leading to new patterns of independent film and video circulation in the Asian Pacific region. She is particularly interested in the potential of alternative modes of distribution and exhibition, such as themed film festivals, to shape socially-engaged cultures of production and consumption.
Her PhD research is funded by the Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) and the University of London Central Research Fund. During her doctoral studies, she also contributed to the Leverhulme Media Research Program as a Research Assistant for two projects: Spaces of the News, and Tracking the Moving Image.
Research interests include: cultures of screen distribution and exhibition; digital cinema and e-cinema; Chinese cinemas from Hong Kong, the PRC, Taiwan, and the diaspora; Asian North American cultural studies; transnationalism and media globalization; and theories and practices of public culture.
Teaching experience as both a Lecturer and a Teaching Assistant includes a wide range of undergraduate courses in film, television, screen studies, and qualitative methodologies at Goldsmiths, University of London; Royal Holloway, University of London; and Simon Fraser University in Canada.
Recent publications
Yeo, Su-Anne. “Everything Everywhere Alive in Toronto: Situating the Film Practice of Keith Lock.” Elaine Chang, Richard Fung, and Keith Lock Eds. Lock Down Pictures. (Invited Essay, under review with University of Toronto Press)
Yeo, Su-Anne. “Conference Report: Screen Studies Conference: Screen Theorising Today.” Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies. Issue 14. February 2010. Institute of Film and TV Studies. University of Nottingham.
Yeo, Su-Anne. “Vancouver Asian: West Coast Film Cultures, On the Rim and At the End of the Line.” Elaine Chang Ed. Reel Asian: Asian Canada on Screen. Toronto: Coach House Press, 2007. 114-125. (Invited Essay)
Selected conference papers
“Alternative Capital at the Themed Film Festival: Re-Imagining the Work of Pierre Bourdieu.” Paper proposed for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) 52nd Annual Conference. Boston, March 21-25, 2012 (Under Review)
“A Methodology of Failure?: Researching Minor (Transnational) Cinemas.” Paper presented at the 21st Annual Screen Studies Conference, University of Glasgow, July 1-3, 2011
“Quasi-realism and the Fiction/Fact Divide: Cinematic Interventions from Hong Kong and China.” Paper presented at the European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity: After Fiction. University of Copenhagen, June 3-5, 2010
“‘A Will to Cinema’ in Post-97 Hong Kong: Minor Transnationalism and the Hong Kong Asian Independent Film Festival.” Paper presented at the 50th Annual SCMS Conference. Los Angeles, March 17-21, 2010
“‘A Will to Cinema’ in Post-97 Hong Kong: Policy, Practice, and Minor Transnationalism.” Paper presented at the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Annual Conference. London School of Economics and Political Science, January 6-8, 2010
“‘Minor Transnationalism’ and the Case of the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival.” Paper presented at the Postgraduate Symposium, Transnational East Asian Cinema Since 1997, as part of the celebrations for the 50th Anniversary of the journal, Screen. University of Southampton, March 13 and March 20, 2009