Description: Discusses the changing nature of the East Asian auteur image within platform-driven, cinephilic culture.
Brief description: Dorothy Wai Sim Lau is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (2019), Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (2021), Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary (2024), and East Asian Auteurs, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era (2025). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield in 2022.
Review Quotes: Focusing on East Asian filmmakers and a wide range of cinephilic responses to their work across multiple digital platforms, Dorothy Wai Sim Lau's Rethinking Film Authorship offers fresh insight into understanding the persistence of auteurism as a cultural and intellectual force in the study of film and screen media.-- "Felicia Chan, Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, the University of Manchester"