Phoebe PUA
Phoebe Pua is a doctoral candidate with the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore. Her research bridges perspectives of film studies and feminist theory in the context of Southeast Asian cinema. She also works on topics relating to gender, sexuality, and race in popular media such as the James Bond film series. In addition to academic conferences, Phoebe has spoken on these topics at public events in the NUS Museum and Freedom Film Festival Singapore. Her work has been published in Language in Society, Feminist Media Studies, Discourse, Context, and Media, and the Asian Film Archive’s Reframe series.
All publications and conference abstracts are available at https://nus.academia.edu/PhoebePua
Contact: phoebepua@u.nus.edu
| Research interests/ primary fields |
Film studies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Southeast Asia, the third world |
| Dissertation topic/ title | The Third World Woman in Contemporary Southeast Asia’s Feminist Cinema |
| Dissertation supervisor | Valerie WEE |
| Recent presentations | Pua, Phoebe. “She of the Outlands: Rape-Revenge Films and Southeast Asia’s Regional Feminist Cinema.”14th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, 22-26 July 2019, Asia Research Institute.
Pua, Phoebe. “Women and the Rural World in Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema.” Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, 24-26 June 2019, LASELLE College of the Arts. Pua, Phoebe. “Evolution of feminist identity in Southeast Asian rape-revenge films.” International Conference on Gender and Sexuality in Asia, 12-14 November 2018, Monash University Malaysia. Pua, Phoebe. “Universal feminism in the Afghan desert.” The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies, 23-24 November 2017, Australian National University. Pua, Phoebe. “The sound of rape in Southeast Asian feminist texts.” NUS EN Research Day, 17 November 2017, National University of Singapore. Pua, Phoebe. “The inaudible woman in the desert: Three films of post-Taliban Afghanistan by three Iranian Women.” Gender Studies Symposium, 2-3 June 2017, Nanyang Technological University (organized in conjunction with Australian National University, and the University of South Africa). Pua, Phoebe. “Your government the filmmaker: The tourist gaze under ASEAN direction.” Nanyang Graduate Student Colloquium, 17 February 2017, Nanyang Technological University. Pua, Phoebe. “Truly Asia: Aural homo/heterogeneity in Southeast Asian cinema.” 9th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, 20-22 July 2016, University of Nottingham Malaysia. Hiramoto, Mie, and Phoebe Pua. “License to (mis)represent: Queering East Asian characters in James Bond films.” 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference, 19-21 May 2016, City University of Hong Kong. Pua, Phoebe. “The art of motherhood: Producing the maternal in Madonna and child portraiture.” Women’s Studies Symposium, 10-11 December 2015, Nanyang Technological University (organized in conjunction with Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and Australian National University). Hiramoto, Mie, and Phoebe Pua. “From Asia with love: Mediatization of East Asians in the Bond franchise.” 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 17-23 November 2015, Colorado Convention Center. |
| Publications | Journal Publications
Hiramoto, Mie, and Phoebe Pua. “Racializing heterosexuality: Non-normativity and East Asian characters in James Bond films.” Language in Society, vol. 48, no. 4, 2019, 541-563. doi: 10.1017/S004740451900038 Pua, Phoebe. “Iron lady to old lady: the neutering of James Bond’s M,” Feminist Media Studies, vol. 18, no. 1, 2018, 94-107. doi: 10.1080/14680777.2018.1409991 Pua, Phoebe, and Mie Hiramoto. “Mediatization of East Asia in James Bond films.” Discourse, Context and Media, vol. 23, 2018, 6-15. doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2017.01.003 Pua, Phoebe. “Response to ‘Seeking God in early Bergman: The cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light.” CINEJ Cinema Journal, vol.2, no. 1, 2012, 42-57. Brežná, Irena, and Phoebe Pua. (Introduction only) “‘It’s in the film that I try to say everything’: Andrei Tarkovsky on women, spirituality, and the autonomy of the filmmaker.” Metro no. 173, 2012, 72-78. Essays Pua, Phoebe. “The Silent God of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman.” fourbythree, no. 6, 2016. Available online: http://www.fourbythreemagazine.com/issue/silent-god-of-bergman-and-tarkovsky |
| Modules taught | EN2203 Introduction to Film Studies EN3242 History of Film EN3248 Reading the Horror Film |