The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas (PDF)

Zhen Zhang is a Professor and directs the Asian Film and Media Initiative in the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, USA. Her publications include An Amorous History of the Silver Screen: Shanghai Cinema 1896-1937; The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century; DV-Made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film; and Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema. She also curates film programs and serves as a jury member for various platforms.

Sangjoon Lee is an Associate Professor of Film Studies at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. Lee is the author of Cinema and the Cultural Cold War: US Diplomacy and the Origins of the Asian Cinema Network (2020) and the editor/co-editor of Hallyu 2.0: The Korean Wave in the Age of Social Media (2015), Rediscovering Korean Cinema (2019), The South Korean Film Industry (2024), and Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas (2024). Lee is also a director of the Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). His works have been translated into Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and Italian.

Debashree Mukherjee is an Associate Professor of Film and Media in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University, USA. She is author of Bombay Hustle: Making Movies in a Colonial City (2020) and editor of Bombay Talkies: An Unseen History of Indian Cinema (2023). Her current book project, Tropical Machines: Extractive Media and Plantation Modernity, develops a media history of South Asian indentured migration and plantation capitalism. Debashree edits the peer-reviewed journal BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies and has published in journals such as Film History, Feminist Media Histories, and Representations.

Intan Paramaditha is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Film Studies at Macquarie University, Australia. She is the author of the