In this issue

Letter from the Editor Ying Zhu Hong Kong and Social Movements

Hong Kong Unraveled: Social Media and the 2019 Protest Movement
Anonymous

Unleashing the Sounds of Silence: Hong Kong’s Story in Troubled Times
Andrea Riemenschnitter

Tragedy of Errors at Warp Speed
Sam Ho

Imagining a City-Based Democracy: Review of The Appearing Demos: Hong Kong During and After the Umbrella Movement by Laikwan Pang, University of Michigan Press, 2020
Enoch Tam

Building and Documenting National and Transnational Cinema

China and the Film Festival
Richard Peña

Nationalism from Below: State Failures, Nollywood, and Nigerian Pidgin Jonathan Haynes Collective Memory and the Rhetorical Power of the Historical Fiction Film
Carl Plantinga

From Nations to Worlds: Chris Marker’s Si j’avais quatre dromadaires
Michael Walsh

Sino-US Relations

American Factory and the Difficulties of Documenting Neoliberalism
Peter Hitchcock

R.I.P. Soft Power: China’s Story Meets the Reset Button: Review of Soft Power with Chinese Characteristics: China’s Campaign for Hearts and Minds edited by Kingsley Edney, Stanley Rosen, and Ying Zhu, Routledge, 2019
Robert A. Kapp

The Narrative of Virus

Review: On Epidemics, Epidemiology, and Global Storytelling
Carlos Rojas

In this issue
Letter from the Editor - YING ZHU
Research Articles
Consuming the Pastoral Desire: Li Ziqi, Food Vlogging, and the Structure of Feeling in the Era of Microcelebrity - LIANG LIMIN
This Is Not Reality (Ceci n’est pas la réalité): Capturing the Imagination of the People Creativity, the Chinese Subaltern, and Documentary Storytelling - PAOLA VOCI
The Networked Storyteller and Her Digital Tale: Film Festivals and Ann Hui’s My Way - GINA MARCHETTI
“Retweet for More”: The Serialization of Porn on the Twitter Alter Community - RUEPERT CAO
Book Reviews
Dazzling Revelations - Review of Negative Exposures: Knowing What Not to Know in Contemporary China by Margaret Hillenbrand, Duke University Press, 2020 - HARRIET EVANS
Speaking Nations, Edge Ways - Reviews of Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound and Stability by Gerald Sim, Amsterdam University Press, 2020; and Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945–1998) edited by Gaik Cheng Khoo, Thomas Barker, Mary Ainslie, Amsterdam University Press, 2020 - MIN HUI YEO
Film Reviews
Nomadland: An American or Chinese Story? Review of Nomadland, directed by Chloe Zhao, 2020 - YING ZHU
New from Netflix: Mank, Fincher, and A Hollywood Creation Tale - Review of Mank, directed by David Fincher, 2020 - THOMAS SCHATZ
Superheroes: The Endgame - Review of Superhero Movies - PETER BISKIND
Short Essay
Love and Duty: Translating Films and Teaching Online through a Pandemic - CHRISTOPHER REA
Report
Narrating New Normal: Graduate Student Symposium Report - RUEPERT JIEL DIONISIO CAO, MINOS-ATHANASIOS KARYOTAKIS, MISTURA ADEBUSOLA SALAUDEEN, DONGLI CHEN, & YANJING WINNIE WU

IN THIS ISSUE
Guest Editors
Suzanne Scott and Ellen Seiter

Ellen Seiter. Letter from the Editor.

Research Articles
Paige MacIntosh. Transgressive TV: Euphoria, HBO, and a New Trans Aesthetic
Kelsey J. Cummings. Queer Seriality, Streaming Television, and She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Jia Tan. Platformized Seriality: Chinese Time-Travel Fantasy from Prime-Time Television to Online Streaming
Jake Pitre. Platform Strategy in a Technopolitical War: The Failure (and Success) of Facebook Watch
Anne Gilbert. Algorithmic Audiences, Serialized Streamers, and the Discontents of Datafication
Oliver Kröener. Then, Now, Forever: Television Wrestling, Seriality, and the Rise of the Cinematic Match during COVID-19

Book Reviews
Briand Gentry. The Serial Will Be Televised: Serial Television’s Revolutionary Potential for Multidisciplinary Analysis of Social Identity.  Reviews of Birth of the Binge: Serial TV and the End of Leisure by Dennis Broe, Wayne State University Press, 2019, and Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television by Maria Sulimma, Edinburgh University Press, 2021
Grace Elizabeth Wilsey. The Patchwork That Makes a Global Streaming Giant. Review of Netflix Nations: The Geography of Digital Distribution by Ramon Lobato, New York University Press, 2019
Asher Guthertz. The History of the American Comic Book, Revised: Review of Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood by Shawna Kidman, University of California Press, 2019

Film Reviews
Anne Metcalf. Review of Zola (Janicza Bravo, 2020)

In This Issue

Special Issue Editors: Kenneth Paul Tan & Dorothy Lau

Letter from the Editor - YING ZHU

Cold War and New Cold War Narratives: Special Issue Editor’s Introduction - KENNETH PAUL TAN

Research Articles

Notes on Cold War Historiography - LOUIS MENAND

Tales from the Hot Cold War - MARTHA BAYLES

Bomb Archive: The Marshall Islands as Cold War Film Set - ILONA JURKONYTĖ

Das unsichtbare Visier—A 1970s Cold War Intelligence TV Series as a Fantasy of International and Intranational Empowerment; or, How East Germany Saved the World and West Germans Too - TARIK CYRIL AMAR

To Whom Have We Been Talking? Naeem Mohaiemen’s Fabulation of a People-to-Come - NOIT BANAI

The Man without a Country: British Imperial Nostalgia in Ferry to Hong Kong (1959) - KENNY K. K. NG

Imagining Cooperation: Cold War Aesthetics for a Hot Planet - MARINA KANETI

Book Reviews

Through Space and Time - Review of The Odyssey of Communism: Visual Narratives, Memory and Culture edited by Michaela Praisler and Oana-Celia Gheorghiu, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021 - ISABEL GALWEY

Review of Hollywood in China: Behind the Scenes of the World’s Largest Movie Market by Ying Zhu, New Press, 2022 - YONGLI LI

The Cautionary Tale of Painting War Remembrance in China as a New Nationalism - Review of China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism by Rana Mitter, Belknap Press, 2020 - FUWEI ZUO

Tracking American Political Currents - Review of White Identity Politics by Ashley Jardina, Cambridge University Press, 2019, and Fox Populism: Branding Conservatism as Working Class by Reece Peck, Cambridge University Press, 2019 - DAVID GURNEY

Special Issue 3.1 – East Asian Serial Dramas in the Era of Global Streaming Services (Summer 2023)
Special Issue Editors Tze-lan Sang, Lina Qu, and Ying Zhu

IN THIS ISSUE

Tze-lan Sang, Lina Qu, and Ying Zhu - East Asian Serial Dramas in the Era of Global Streaming Services: Special Issue Editors’ Introduction

Research Articles
Ying Zhu - The Therapeutic and the Transgressive: Chinese Fansub Straddling between Hollywood IP Laws and Chinese State Censorship
David Humphrey - Japanese Dramas and the Streaming Success Story that Wasn’t: How Industry Practices and IP Shape Japan’s Access to Global Streaming    
Yucong Hao - Transmedia Adaptation, Sonic Affect, and Multisensory Participation in Contemporary Chinese Danmei Radio Drama
Eunice Ying Ci Lim - The Nostalgic Negotiation of Post-TV Legibility in Mom, Don’t Do That!    
Winnie Yanjing Wu - How Pachinko Mirrors Migrant Life: Rethinking the Temporal, Spatial, and Linguistic Dimensions of Migration

Drama Reviews
Mei Mingxue Nan - Squid Game: The Hall of Screens in the Age of Platform Cosmopolitanism
Shuwen Yang - Review of Light the Night

Short Essay
Sheng-mei Ma - Three Bad Kids, One Loving Killer: Red China Noir in Blakean Symmetry

Special Issue Editor: Haiqing Yu

Haiqing Yu. COVID-19, Satirical Activism, and Chinese Youth Culture: An Introduction

Research Articles
Ying Zhu and Junqi Peng.  From Diaosi to Sang to Tangping: The Chinese DST Youth Subculture Online
Shaohua Guo. Moments of "Madness": Cynicism in Times of COVID
Howard Choy. Laughter in the Time of Coronavirus: Epidemic Humor and Satire in Chinese Women's Digital Diaries
Shaoyu Tang. Political In Between: Streaming Stand-Up Comedy and Feminist Reckoning in Contemporary Mainland China
Jingxue Zhang and Charlie Yi Zhang. The Power of Citation: Feminist Counter-Appropriation of State Discourses in Post-Reform China

Book Reviews
Ethan Tussey. Revised Research Methodology for the Age of Media Industries Speculation - Review of Specworld: Folds, Faults, and Fractures in Embedded Creator Industries by John Thornton Caldwell, University of California Press, 2023
Michael Keane. Precarious Creativity and the State in New Era China - Review of Chinese Creator Economies: Labor and Bilateral Creative Workers by Jian Lin, New York University Press, 2023

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