ACR Lab’s first multi-year major research project is tentatively titled “Transnational Networks of Cinema and Digital Media in Asia.” This project explores how cinema and digital media industries located in East, South, and Southeast Asia have interacted and influenced each other. Locating Hong Kong as a ‘contact zone’ of the film industries in Asia, this research project draws attention to the industrial networks of directors, actors, authors, technicians, genres and styles, formats, consumers, languages, and capital across trans/inter-regional contexts. ACR Lab, accordingly, will organize an international conferences and a series of virtual and in-person lectures and talks during the first 30-month duration of the CityU start-up grant (2024-2026).

Forthcoming Publications

1. Remapping the Cold War in Asian Cinemas
   Edited by Sangjoon Lee (lead editor) and Darlene Espena. Amsterdam University Press (June 2024).
   https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463727273/remapping-the-cold-war-in-asian-cinemas#:~:text=This%20book%20is%20about%20cinema,height%20of%20the%20Cold%20War.
    

2. The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas
   Edited By Zhen Zhang, Debashree Mukherjee, Intan Paramaditha, Sangjoon Lee
   Routledge (June 2024)
   https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Asian-Cinemas/Zhang-Mukherjee-Paramaditha-Lee/p/book/9781032199405