Author Joanne Leow

Joanne Leow

Joanne Leow is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan. She has published research on Singaporean and Canadian texts in the Journal of Asian American Studies, Canadian Literature, and the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. She is writing a book manuscript on authoritarian urban planning, cartography, and contemporary texts from Singapore. She is also leading a SSHRC-funded study of the waterfront developments and relevant cultural texts from Singapore, Hong Kong, Vancouver, and Dubai.

Gestures of Resistance: An Interview with Tan Pin Pin

Joanne Leow

October 2018

Feature Articles

Tan was born in 1969 in Singapore and was trained in law in the United Kingdom and in documentary filmmaking in the United States. Her experimental documentaries and award-winning short films have consistently ...

The Long Take as a Reaction to the Past in Contemporary Romanian Cinema

Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist

The New-Ark: trying to disavow anti-blackness

Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell

What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience

Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea

Thresholds of Work and Non-Work in Tulapop Saenjaroen’s People on Sunday

Wavelengths at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival

Dreaming of the Mountains: The 9th Dharamshala International Film Festival

Ghost Cities: The 58th Viennale

Queer and Australian Features at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival

Live Through This: The 2020 Adelaide Film Festival

“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival

Lethal Weapons, Die Hards and Terminators: Exploring Action-Adventure Cinema in Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie by Eric Lichtenfeld and Action and Adventure Cinema edited by Yvonne Tasker

Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley

When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis

“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982

Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy

Anarchist Cinema: A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki by Stephen Prince

Trade Follows the Film: Cinema and the Wealth of Nations: Media, Capital, and the Liberal World System by Lee Grieveson

A Man from the Boulevard des Capucines (Chelovek s bulvara Kaputsinov, Alla Surikova, 1987)

Stairways to Paradise: Youssef Chahine and Alexandria…Why?

At Home Among Strangers (Свой среди чужих, чужой среди своих, Nikita Mikhalkov, 1974)

German Yearnings, East and West: The Sons of Great Bear (Josef Mach, 1966)

Waiting for Rain: Oppression and Resistance in Youssef Chahine’s The Land (1970)

Of East and West and High and Low: Lemonade Joe (1964)

Abbas Kiarostami’s The Traveller (1974)

Eisenstein, Sergei

Scott, Tony

Menzel, Jiří

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Gestures of Resistance: An Interview with Tan Pin Pin