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Autobiographical Fantasy and the Feminist Archive (2021)
Journal Article
Bradnock, L. (2021). Autobiographical Fantasy and the Feminist Archive. Archives of American Art Journal, 60(1), 44-61. https://doi.org/10.1086/714301

In the mid-1970s a number of artists in Southern California made works that merged self-portraiture, material documents, life narrative, and fiction or fantasy. The 1976 exhibition Autobiographical Fantasies, Lowell Darling’s This Is Your Life (1973-... Read More about Autobiographical Fantasy and the Feminist Archive.

The Creative Collaboratory Method: Report and Toolkit (2021)
Report
Kennedy, H., Atkinson, S., & Wreyford, N. (2021). The Creative Collaboratory Method: Report and Toolkit. Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada

The purpose of this publication is two-fold:
1. To provide a report which consolidates the findings and outcomes from research undertaken in conjunction with the ReFiguring Innovation in Games project over the past five years – specifically the deve... Read More about The Creative Collaboratory Method: Report and Toolkit.

Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China. In Sound Communities: Music, Media, and Technology in the Asia Pacific (193-209). Bloomsbury Publishing

This chapter examines the production and dissemination of musical cultures in gender and sexual minority communities for political and activist purposes in the Asia Pacific, using the Beijing Queer Chorus (BQC) as a case study. As the longest running... Read More about Change the World Gently with Singing: Queer Choirs in China.

Being LGB in China (2021)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2021). Being LGB in China. In P. Gerber (Ed.), Worldwide perspectives on lesbians, gays and bisexuals: culture, history and law. Volume 3, The global picture (119-137). Praeger Press

As the most populous country in the world, the People’s Republic of China (PRC, otherwise known as mainland China) has an estimated 40 million lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) residents. In a country where homosexuality has only recently been decrim... Read More about Being LGB in China.

Kubrick and the Critics (2021)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2021). Kubrick and the Critics. In N. Abrams, & I. Q. Hunter (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (75-84). Bloomsbury Publishing

“A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2021). “A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China. Translation and Interpreting Studies, 16(2), 219-239. https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.19069.bao

This article traces the historical moment when queer theory first arrived in mainland China in the early 2000s by comparing and contrasting two translated texts in Chinese: Wang Fengzhen’s book Guaiyi Lilun [Peculiar Theory] and Li Yinhe’s book Ku’er... Read More about “A cool kid” Queer theory travels to China.

Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2 (2020)
Book Chapter
Grainge, P. (2020). Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2. In D. Herbert, & C. Verevis (Eds.), Film reboots (205-218). Edinburgh University Press

This chapter is about the anticipation of Top Gun: Maverick as a reboot. The focus, quite purposefully, is on the reboot before it was released or the momentum of advance marketing had begun to build. While Thomas Elsaesser has likened the arrival o... Read More about Anticipating the reboot: teasing Top Gun 2.

The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa. Global Media and China, 5(3), 294-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059436420949985

© The Author(s) 2020. In this article, I examine grassroots cinematic connections between China and Africa by using Queer University, short for the Queer University Video Capacity Building Training Program, a 3-year (2017–2019) participatory video pr... Read More about The queer Global South: Transnational video activism between China and Africa.

Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party (2020)
Journal Article
Pucci, L. (2020). Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party. Tate Papers, 2020(33),

The Italian Communist artist Renato Guttuso found in Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica a language with which to confront the violence of his time, from fascism and the Nazi occupation to the era of Christian Democracy and the Cold War. This article ex... Read More about Guttuso, Guernica, Gramsci: Art, History and the Symbolic Strategy of the Italian Communist Party.

‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19 (2020)
Journal Article
BAO, H. (2020). ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19. Interface: a journal for and about social movements, 12(1), 53 – 63

In this short essay, I introduce the ‘Anti-Domestic Violence Little Vaccine’ campaign in China during the COVID-19. After a brief introduction of the campaign by using first-person accounts from the organiser Guo Jing, I will then sum up some of the... Read More about ‘Anti-domestic violence little vaccine’: A Wuhan-based feminist activist campaign during COVID-19.

The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival (2020)
Book Chapter
Bao, H. (2020). The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival. In S. Presence, M. Wayne, & J. Newsinger (Eds.), Contemporary Radical Film Culture: Networks, Organisation and Activists (190-202). Routledge

This chapter addresses the Euro-American-centrism in the study of radical film cultures by examining cinematic and political practices in a non-Western context. It shifts radical film research’s traditional emphasis on class to an intersectional appr... Read More about The Communist International of Queer Films: The Radical Culture of the Beijing Queer Film Festival.

The cultural politics of Jennifer Lawrence as star, actor, celebrity (2020)
Journal Article
Frame, G. (2020). The cultural politics of Jennifer Lawrence as star, actor, celebrity. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 18(3), 345-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2020.1790479

Jennifer Lawrence emerged as a major star of American cinema following the collapse of the economy in 2008. This article will argue that her image in the initial phase of her fame (2010–16) is reflective of mainstream culture’s response to the crisis... Read More about The cultural politics of Jennifer Lawrence as star, actor, celebrity.

‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history. Continuum, 34(4), 514-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2020.1785079

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article examines the politics of narrating feminist and queer histories in contemporary China. Focusing on Zhao Jing and Shi Tou’s 2015 film, We Are Here, a documentary made... Read More about ‘We Are Here’: the politics of memory in narrating China’s queer feminist history.

Noise (2020)
Book Chapter
Mansell, J. G. (2020). Noise. In Literature and sound (154-169). Cambridge University Press

Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One (2020)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2020). Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One. Feminist Media Studies, 20(4), 530-547. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2020.1754632

© 2020, © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article focuses on the politics of representing HIV/AIDS in the 2011 documentary The Lucky One (宠儿), jointly made by Chinese filmmaker and queer activist He Xiaopei and Zh... Read More about Queering international development: the “pleasure principle” in the participatory video The Lucky One.

Clutter and place (2020)
Book Chapter
Potts, T. (2020). Clutter and place. In T. Edensor, A. Kalandides, & U. Kothari (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Place. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter explores the complex relationship between stuff and place as a way of interrogating the contemporary media obsession with decluttering. While the very idea of place connotes order (as in the maxim ‘a place for everything and everything i... Read More about Clutter and place.