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Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius (2014)
Book
Rorato, L. (2014). Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius. Maney Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315095967

© Modern Humanities Research Association and Taylor and Francis 2014. All rights reserved. The idea of writing a book about fictional representations of Caravaggio came to me as far back as 2004 when I was writing a paper on art as inauguration in Pi... Read More about Caravaggio in film and literature: Popular culture's appropriation of a Baroque genius.

‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies (2014)
Journal Article
Feng, L. (2014). ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies. Transnational Cinemas, 5(2), 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1080/20403526.2014.959725

Stars are often associated with glamour and beauty, but in this paper I would like to question how the concept of “chou” (literally meaning ugliness) is embraced in contemporary Chinese cinema. The popularity of chouxing (ugly star) in the Chinese ci... Read More about ‘I’m ugly, but gentle’: performing ‘little character’ in post-Mao Chinese comedies.

A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals (2014)
Journal Article
Harrison, E. M., Weinert, L. A., Holden, M. T. G., Welch, J. J., Wilson, K., Morgan, F. J. E., …Holmes, M. A. (2014). A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals. mBio, 5(3), Article ARTN e00985-13. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.00985-13

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a global human health problem causing infections in both hospitals and the community. Companion animals, such as cats, dogs, and horses, are also frequently colonized by MRSA and can become infect... Read More about A shared population of epidemic methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus 15 circulates in humans and companion animals.

Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Kimyongür, A. (2014). Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction. The Australasian journal of popular culture, 3(1), 33-44. https://doi.org/10.1386/ajpc.3.1.33_1

Critics have evoked parallels between the French experience of Vichy during World War II and the Algerian War of Independence, in terms of their intensely divisive nature and the difficulty the French have had, and continue to have, in acknowledging... Read More about Crime in popular fiction: Remembering the Algerian War of Independence in contemporary French crime fiction.

Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997 (2014)
Book Chapter
Feng, L. (2014). Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997. In East Asian Film Stars (113-127). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029195_8

Anyone who is interested in Hong Kong cinema must be familiar with one name: Chow Yun-fat (b. 1955). He rose to film stardom in the 1980s when Hong Kong cinema started to attract global attention beyond East Asia. During his early screen career, Chow... Read More about Translocal imagination of Hong Kong connections: the shifting of Chow Yun-Fat's star image since 1997.