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Dennis Lo
Dennis Lo is an assistant professor of global cinemas in the English Department at James Madison University. He received a Ph.D. in cinema studies at UCLA and currently teaches histories of global cinema, film and media theories, media industries, and transnational authors and genres, with a specific focus on Chinese-language cinemas. His research explores the intersections of Chinese-language film aesthetics, film authorship, location shooting, media anthropology, cultural geography and cinematic ecocriticism. He is the author of The Authorship of Place: A Cultural Geography of the New Chinese Cinemas (Hong Kong University Press, 2020), which explores the politics and aesthetics of rural location shooting in Chinese-language cinemas. His work has also been published as a chapter in Production Studies, The Sequel!, as well as in numerous refereed journals, including Film-Philosophy and Asian Cinema.