Dr Gary Bettinson
Senior Lecturer in Film StudiesCurrent Teaching
Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema (Convenor)
Film Theory
Independent Research Disserations
Film Cultures
Documentary Cultures
Media, Film, and Cultural Studies
Apocalypse Then: New Hollywood Cinema (MA)
Cinema and History (MA)
Research Interests
My research interests include approaches to film aesthetics, in particular neoformalism and historical poetics; studies of individual film authors; Hong Kong cinema and Asian filmmaking in general; and American independent and mainstream cinema. I am Editor-in-Chief of Asian Cinema journal (published bi-annually).