Author Fran Martin

Fran Martin

Dr Fran Martin is Lecturer in Cinema Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She has published widely on media and public culture in contemporary Taiwan, and is author of Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture (Hong Kong University Press, 2003), co-editor of Mobile Cultures: New Media and Queer Asia (Duke University Press, 2003) and translator of Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan (Hawaii University Press, 2003). Her current research project investigates lesbian representation in the transnational Chinese popular cultures that span Hong Kong, Taiwan and the People's Republic of China.

The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria

Fran Martin

July 2003

Feature Articles

Issue 27

Martin examines the complex, layered workings of cinematic and cultural referencing in this film and its overall sensibility of temporal disjuncture.

The 21st century plague: Cinema in the age of COVID-19

And Then We Danced: Queer sounds and movement

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom as Pasolini’s Film on Film

The Russian Doll and Skripov the Spy: ASIO’s Legal Resident (1963) and Peter Butt’s Final Rendezvous (2020)

The America Endangered in The American: A Dark Allegory

The Last Film Festival: the 2020 Berlinale

AFI/AFM 2010 – Places to Fly Away From

Pandemic Diary of a Lonely Cinephile: CPH:DOX 2020

Collective Heroes: Activism and Activation at the International Film Festival Rotterdam

Eclectic and Open to the World: The 9^th Annual Paris Cinema Festival

The Big Goodbye: “Chinatown” and the Last Years of Hollywood, by Sam Wasson

Reading Film: Light into Ink: A Critical Survey of 50 Film Novelizations, by S. M. Guariento

A meet and happy conversation: Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema by Catherine Wheatley

The Past Is Not Even Past: Afterimages, by Laura Mulvey

The Said and the Unsaid (Part II): Australian Film Theory & Criticism (3 vols.), ed. Noel King, Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams

Hard Labour: Cecil Holmes’s Captain Thunderbolt (1953)

Adrift in the Shadows of Fog: Forget Love for Now (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1937)

Kiss Me, Stupid (Billy Wilder, 1964)

A journey through 1930s Japan: Mr. Thank You (Hiroshi Shimizu, 1936)

A Thesaurus of Gestures: Harun Farocki’s Workers Leaving the Factory (1995) and The Expression of Hands (1997)

Wise, Robert

Fernández, Emilio “Indio”

Fei Mu

Huston, John

Linklater, Richard

Author Fran Martin

Fran Martin

The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria