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Author Brian Hu

Brian Hu

Brian Hu is Assistant Professor of Television, Film, and New Media at San Diego State University. He is the author of Worldly Desires: Cosmopolitanism and Cinema in Hong Kong and Taiwan (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), and his writing on film has appeared in Screen, Film Quarterly, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas. He is the Artistic Director of the San Diego Asian Film Festival.

“To All Beautiful Losers”: Political Pessimism and the Hong Kong Sports Movie

Brian Hu
July 2020
Feature Articles
This article has been peer-reviewed. In the sports drama Dim ng bou (Weeds on Fire, Chan Chi-fat, 2016), high school principal Lo Kwong-Fai proposes to the administration his idea of forming Hong Kong’s firs...
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The World Before Our Eyes: Taipei International Film Festival

Brian Hu
May 2006
Festival Reports
June 26–July 7, 2005 Is there no better metaphor for the ubiquitous “international film festival” than the theme park at the center of Jia Zhang-ke’s The World (2004)? I’ve seen the film at more than one...
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Formula 17: Testing a Formula for Mainstream Cinema in Taiwan

Brian Hu
February 2005
Feature Articles
After 20 years of producing cinema at each extreme – lowbrow mainstream fodder and a formal, serious and politically engaged cinema – Taiwan has turned out its first cross-over hit in the form of a youthful tale of gay utopia!
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To Each Their Own: Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau

Brian Hu
July 2004
Book Reviews
The blanket terms “Asian cinema” and “East Asian cinema” tend to elide the distinctive ways individual nations, regions, and cities have represented themselves in the face of cultural domination. Jenny Kwok Wah...
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Goodbye City, Goodbye Cinema: Nostalgia in Tsai Ming-liang’s The Skywalk is Gone

Brian Hu
December 2003
Feature Articles
Serial alienation in the modern city: a discussion of the multiple "lost objects" of mourning in Tsai Ming-liang's recent short film, ranging from bygone eras of Chinese and Taiwanese cinema to Tsai's own previous features.

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