MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER PhD candidate, Berlin, Germany CHUA BENG HUAT Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore MARK HOBART Professor of Critical Media and Cultural Studies at the Centre for Media and Film Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK HSIEN-HAO SEBASTIAN LIAO Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan MADHUJA MUKHERJEE Lecturer in the Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India CECILIA J. PANG Associate Professor and Head of Performance at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA JI YUN PARK Lecturer at the University of Paris 8, France TEMENUGA TRIFONOVA Assistant Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Film at York University, Toronto, Canada VISHNU T. VARDHAN PhD candidate at the Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster and the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS), Bangalore, India COBUS VAN STADEN PhD graduate from the University of Nagoya, Japan, and currently working in Johannesburg for the South African Broadcasting Corporation VALENTINA VITALI Lecturer in Film History and Theory at the University of East London, UK