Author Scarlette Nhi Do

Scarlette Nhi Do

Scarlette Nhi Do is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University. She researches films about the Second Indochina War and uses Freudian psychoanalysis to examine the melancholia underscoring these texts. Scarlette also currently teaches film studies at the University of Melbourne and serves as an executive director of a nonprofit organisation focused on gender justice.

YouTube as the Pirate Archive: South Vietnamese Cinema and Memories of the Second Indochina War

Scarlette Nhi Do

May 2023

Cinema and Piracy

When folks inquire about my research on Second Indochina War cinemas, they usually ask where they can watch the movies I am analysing. “YouTube” I would answer, and they would laugh. It is true and it is odd. F...