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Bliss Cua Lim

Associate Professor, Film & Media Studies
School of Humanities

Ph.D., New York University, 2001, Cinema Studies

Phone: (949) 824-9431, 5386
Email: flim@uci.edu

University of California
211 Humanities Instructional Bldg
Mail Code: 2435
Irvine, CA 92697

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Research
Interests
Philippine cinema; temporality; postcolonial and feminist film theory; transnational Asian horror and the fantastic; taste cultures.
   
Academic
Distinctions
John Hope Franklin Book Honoree for 2009, Translating Time: Cinema, The Fantastic, and Temporal Critique

Humanities Associates Faculty Teaching Award for 2006
   
Publications SELECT PUBLICATIONS

Books

Translating Time: Cinema, The Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Duke University Press, Fall 2009.

Book Chapters and Journal Articles

“Remade in Silence: Silvia’ Kolbowski’s ‘A Film Will Be Shown without the Sound’” Art Journal 66.3 [College Art Association] Fall 2007. 85-87.

“Generic Ghosts: Remaking the New ‘Asian Horror Film’”, Hong Kong Film, Hollywood And The New Global Cinema ed. Gina Marchetti and Tan See Kam (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), 109-125.

“Serial Time: Bluebeard in Stepford”, Film and Literature: A Reader ed. Robert Stam (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005) 163-190.
“Cult Fiction: Himala and Bakya Temporality” Spectator 24. 2 [Special Issue, Screening Southeast Asia] (Fall 2004): 61-72. [University of Southern California Press].

“Spectral Times: The Ghost Film as Historical Allegory,” positions: east asia cultures critique 9.2 [Special Issue, Asia/Pacific Cinemas: A Spectral Surface] (Fall 2001): 287-329. [Duke University Press]

“American pictures made by Filipinos”: Eddie Romero’s Jungle-Horror Exploitation Films,” Spectator 22.1 [Special Issue, East Asian Images in Transnational Flux] (Spring 2002): 23-45. [University of Southern California Press].

“Dolls in Fragments: Daisies as Feminist Allegory,” Camera Obscura 47 16.2 (Fall 2001): 37-77. [Duke University Press]

“True Fictions, Women’s Narratives, and Historical Trauma”, Geopolitics of the Visible: Essays on Philippine Film Cultures, ed. Rolando B. Tolentino, (Quezon City: Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2000) 145-161.

Creative Publications

Poems from Two Places. (Manila: Anvil, 1995).

And If I Were this Poem and Other Poems. (Manila: Vera Reyes, 1987).
   
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Last updated 08/19/2009