An analysis of Pema Tseden’s film Jinpa (2018), investigating how contemporary Tibetan cinema navigates changing masculine archetypes, Buddhist karmic structures and visual framing against the backdrop of modern Tibetan aesthetics.

This paper examines cinematic engagements with colonial trauma and historical memory in Korean cinema, examining shamanic rituals and nativist narratives in Cho Jung-rae's Spirits' Homecoming (2016) and Park Chan-kyong's Manshin (2013).

A study of Wang Chao's 2018 feature Looking for Rohmer (aka Seeking McCartney), read as part of a new "Queer Cinemas of the Sinosphere" that imagines China as an active participant in global queer culture. The essay traces how tourism, consumption and transnational independent filmmaking work alongside China's official "going out" globalisation project, and how these films destabilise the heteronormative family unit.

Exploring ecocritical aesthetics and cinematic spectrality in Zhao Liang's documentary Behemoth (2015). The article examines industrial landscapes in Inner Mongolia, labour exploitation and Dantean allegories of ecological degradation in postsocialist China.