Dorothy Lau on how Aamir Khan’s celebrity humanitarianism leverages a national imaginary to build his cosmopolitical persona #StarringAsia

Shensen Cai discussing Rene Liu's role as an unofficial spokesperson for 'Left-over Women' (Sheng Nu) #StarringAsia

Meng Li on how online drag performances are used to critique imagine new versions of masculinity in China #StarringAsia

Xinchen Zhu discussing the predominance of sexualised discourses about Taiwanese female film stars’ sex scenes and nudity in the 1980s #StarringAsia

Chikako Nagayama discussing Li Xianglan/Yoshiko Yamaguchi’s cultural hybridity and the contradictory meanings of domestic spaces in her post-WWII films #StarringAsia

Sojeong Park and Seok-Kyeong Hong offer a fantastic examination of the many meanings of white skin for female stars in South Korea pop culture #StarringAsia

A fascinating end to day one: Anna Yates-Lu on how kugak (national music) stars in South Korea navigate stardom by reworking the traditional and engaging the contemporary #StarringAsia

Joyleen Christensen kicks off day 2 of #StarringAsia by examining the #celebrity ‘blindspot’ in scholarship on Handover-era HK cinema - much #AndyLau love

#SRK looms large in Anushka Kartha's dissection of his sustained stardom #StarringAsia

Ha Hoang beautifully elaborating the employment of a 'K-model' by #VPop stars in Vietnam #StarringAsia

Jian Xu examining the fascinating rise and fall of forbidden #hanmai #wanghong MC Tianyou #StarringAsia

Sabrina Qiong Yu exercising her aca-love for #LeslieCheung, discussing his enduring transcultural and #posthumous #fandom online #StarringAsia

Done with 2020? So is the UPress of Mississippi. So, every book on the site, including mine, will be $20.21 until December 15. Why not buy two! upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/Troubl…

"The alleged recuperation and restoration of American masculinity are destabilized and ambiguous" - Paul Doro on Glen Donnar's Troubling Masculinities: Terror, Gender, and Monstrous Others in American Film Post-9/11 (Univ Press of MS 2020) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… @scmswomen Taylor&Francis News

Yes, it's finally out! My "COVID paper"...written while I was juggling online teaching along with the 6 yr old's distance learning. #ModiWithAkshay: ‘Brand Modi’, social media and Bollywood star power tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Issue 12.2: Special issue on Starring Asia is out now. Congratulations to all the authors and special issue editors Dr Vikrant Kishore and Jian Xu of Deakin University and Glen Donnar of RMIT University ! Check out the issue at our website: tandfonline.com/toc/rcel20/12/2

Special issue editor Dr Vikrant Kishore reflects on his collaboration with Jian Xu and Glen Donnar in an audio introduction now available on our Facebook page: facebook.com/watch/?v=29518…

While we're putting final touches on our Summer issue, another big hand for our #JOKER special issue, guest edited by Sean Redmond tandfonline.com/toc/rfts20/cur… Featuring essays & reviews by Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla Alberto Hermida Mark Kerins Ernest Mathijs Dr Merlyn Seller @uncufunc Glen Donnar & more!

Commemorating #MemorialDay2023 w/ our Peace & Conflict in Media reading list nrftsjournal.org/peace-conflict… feat. @reticentK Steve Jones drstevejones.bsky.social @Tim_Snelson @DrTedGeier @beth_marquis Agnieszka Piotrowska Matt Stanley 🌹 Glen Donnar PMD 🎃 📺 & more! Univ Press of MS LSU Press #WarFilms War & Media Studies SCMS Documentary SIG