Global Screen Worlds

A detailed, nuanced, comparative analysis of African and Asian cinemas, expanding the cinema studies canon and decolonizing the methodologies through which we study global cinema.

Lindiwe Dovey is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. From 2019 to 2024, she is the Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project "African Screen Worlds: Decolonising Film and Screen Studies" (www.screenworlds.org).
Kate Taylor-Jones is Professor of East Asian Cinema and Head of the School of East Asian Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her publications include the monograph, Divine Work: Japanese Colonial Cinema and its Legacy (Bloomsbury, 2017) and co-edited works Prostitution and Sex Work in Global Cinema: New Takes on Fallen Women (2017) and International Cinema and the Girl (2015). She is editor-in-chief of The East Asian Journal of Popular Culture.
Georgia Thomas-Parr is a lecturer in film and screen studies at the School of Arts, SOAS, UK. The underlying interest of her research lies in the subjects of girlhood, coming-of-age, and femininity as represented in visual culture (film and media), shaped by gender and feminist critique.