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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\u2019s Reframe series.<\/p>\nAll publications and conference abstracts are available at\u00a0https:\/\/nus.academia.edu\/PhoebePua<\/a><\/i> Pua, Phoebe. \u201cWomen and the Rural World in Contemporary Southeast Asian Cinema.\u201d Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference, 24-26 June 2019, LASELLE College of the Arts.<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cEvolution of feminist identity in Southeast Asian rape-revenge films.\u201d International Conference on Gender and Sexuality in Asia, 12-14 November 2018, Monash University Malaysia. Pua, Phoebe. \u201cUniversal feminism in the Afghan desert.\u201d The Centre for Arab & Islamic Studies, 23-24 November 2017, Australian National University.<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cThe sound of rape in Southeast Asian feminist texts.\u201d NUS EN Research Day, 17 November 2017, National University of Singapore.<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cThe inaudible woman in the desert: Three films of post-Taliban Afghanistan by three Iranian Women.\u201d Gender Studies Symposium, 2-3 June 2017, Nanyang Technological University (organized in conjunction with Australian National University, and the University of South Africa).<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cYour government the filmmaker: The tourist gaze under ASEAN direction.\u201d Nanyang Graduate Student Colloquium, 17 February 2017, Nanyang Technological University.<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cTruly Asia: Aural homo\/heterogeneity in Southeast Asian cinema.\u201d 9th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference, 20-22 July 2016, University of Nottingham Malaysia.<\/p>\n Hiramoto, Mie, and Phoebe Pua. \u201cLicense to (mis)represent: Queering East Asian characters in James Bond films.\u201d 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference, 19-21 May 2016, City University of Hong Kong.<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cThe art of motherhood: Producing the maternal in Madonna and child portraiture.\u201d Women\u2019s Studies Symposium, 10-11 December 2015, Nanyang Technological University (organized in conjunction with Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge and Australian National University).<\/p>\nHiramoto, Mie, and Phoebe Pua. \u201cFrom Asia with love: Mediatization of East Asians in the Bond franchise.\u201d 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 17-23 November 2015, Colorado Convention Center.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n Hiramoto, Mie, and Phoebe Pua. \u201cRacializing heterosexuality: Non-normativity and East Asian characters in James Bond films.\u201d\u00a0Language in Society<\/i>, vol. 48, no. 4, 2019, 541-563. doi: 10.1017\/S004740451900038<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cIron lady to old lady: the neutering of James Bond\u2019s M,\u201d\u00a0Feminist Media Studies<\/i>, vol. 18, no. 1, 2018, 94-107. doi: 10.1080\/14680777.2018.1409991<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe, and Mie Hiramoto. \u201cMediatization of East Asia in James Bond films.\u201d\u00a0Discourse, Context and Media<\/i>, vol. 23, 2018, 6-15. doi: 10.1016\/j.dcm.2017.01.003<\/p>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cResponse to \u2018Seeking God in early Bergman: The cases of The Seventh Seal and Winter Light.\u201d\u00a0CINEJ Cinema Journal<\/i>, vol.2, no. 1, 2012, 42-57.<\/p>\n Bre\u017en\u00e1, Irena, and Phoebe Pua. (Introduction only) \u201c\u2018It\u2019s in the film that I try to say everything\u2019: Andrei Tarkovsky on women, spirituality, and the autonomy of the filmmaker.\u201d\u00a0Metro<\/i>\u00a0no. 173, 2012, 72-78.<\/p>\nEssays<\/u>
\nContact:\u00a0phoebepua@u.nus.edu<\/a>\n\t\n\n
\n Research interests\/
\nprimary fields<\/td>\nFilm studies, feminist theory, gender and sexuality, Southeast Asia, the third world<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dissertation topic\/ title<\/td>\n The Third World Woman in Contemporary Southeast Asia\u2019s Feminist Cinema<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Dissertation supervisor<\/td>\n Valerie WEE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Recent presentations<\/td>\n Pua, Phoebe. \u201cShe of the Outlands: Rape-Revenge Films and Southeast Asia\u2019s Regional Feminist Cinema.\u201d14th Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies, 22-26 July 2019, Asia Research Institute.\n \n Publications<\/td>\n Journal Publications<\/u>\n
\nPua, Phoebe. \u201cScreening the Forest: Slow days at the Asian Film Archive.\u201d\u00a0Reframe<\/i>, Asian Film Archive, 29 June 2018. Available online:\u00a0https:\/\/www.asianfilmarchive.org\/screening-the-forest-slow-days-at-the-asian-film-archive\/<\/a>\nPua, Phoebe. \u201cThe Silent God of Andrei Tarkovsky and Ingmar Bergman.\u201d fourbythree, no. 6, 2016. Available online:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fourbythreemagazine.com\/issue\/silent-god-of-bergman-and-tarkovsky<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n Modules taught<\/td>\n EN2203 Introduction to Film Studies
\nEN3242 History of Film
\nEN3248 Reading the Horror Film<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n