Author Fran Martin

Fran Martin

Dr Fran Martin is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She has published widely on media and public culture in contemporary Taiwan, and is author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (Hong Kong University Press, 2003), co-editor of Mobile Cultures: New Media and Queer Asia (Duke University Press, 2003) and translator of Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan (Hawaii University Press, 2003). Her current research project investigates lesbian representation in the transnational Chinese popular cultures that span Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.

The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria

Fran Martin

July 2003

Feature Articles

Martin examines the complex, layered workings of cinematic and cultural referencing in this film and its overall sensibility of temporal disjuncture.