Dr. Anne T. Ciecko

Global cinema studies (especially Asian, Arab, African, and diasporic cinemas); international transmedia stardom and celebrity; international film festivals; critical theory and cultural studies; gender studies.

Education

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, 1997
M.A., Pennsylvania State University, 1988
B.A., LaSalle University, 1986

Background

Professor Ciecko is an international cinema educator and academic researcher, critic and arts/culture writer, and curator. She has received a 2008 Fulbright Research Scholar award in Film Studies in Jordan. She is editor of Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame (Berg, 2006). As an accredited journalist, she has covered the Fukuoka, Pusan, Dubai, Rotterdam, Hong Kong, and Cairo international film festivals, and has published interviews with Asian and Arab filmmakers. She curates the annual fall film series, New Asia Cinema and Arab Cinema Panorama, on alternate years. An experienced arts administrator, she is dedicated to bridging the classroom and the community with multicultural public programming, community arts, and related service-learning initiatives. Her writing has appeared in the following academic journals and arts publications: Afterimage, Asian Cinema, Asian Journal of Communication, Cinema Journal, Cinemaya, Film Quarterly, History, Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media, Literature/Film, Quarterly, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Spectator: Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Tamkang Review, Velvet Light Trap, and others; and she has given invited talks and workshops on Asian and Asian diaspora cinema and participated in numerous academic conferences and symposia in the U.S. and abroad. Her current and ongoing research interests include global cinema (especially popular Asian cinema, pan-Arab film culture and national cinemas in Arab countries, African cinema and Afropop music, international co-productions, diasporic audiences); international transmedia stardom and celebrity; intercultural film/video and multimedia installations by women; and international film festivals. 

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Books

Ciecko, A. (2006). Contemporary Asian cinema: Popular culture in a global frame. New York: Berg Publisher.

Articles and Book Chapters

Ciecko, A. (2008). "Globe-spotting" [international festival coverage] Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism (April/May).
 
Ciecko, A. (2007/8). coverage of Cairo International Film Festival and the film scene in Amman, Jordan, Asian Cinema (Fall/Winter).
 
Ciecko, A. (2007). "World Cinema" in Encyclopedia of Globalization, edited by Roland Robertson & Jan Aarte Scholte (New York: Routledge), pp. 1267-1271. 
 
Ciecko A. and H. Lee (2007). "Han Suk-kyu and the Cultural Economy of Stardom and Fandom in Contemporary Korean Cinema,” Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World, eds. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington (New York University Press), pp.220-231.

Ciecko, A. (2006). "Introduction to Popular Asian Cinema," "Theorizing Asian Cinema(s)," "Hong Kong: Cinematic Cycles of Grief and Glory," Contemporary Asian Cinema: Popular Culture in a Global Frame, ed. Anne Tereska Ciecko (Berg), pp.1-12, 13-31, 169-181.

Ciecko, A. (2006). “The Hong Kong ‘Film Scene’,”Cinemaya: The Asian Film Quarterly (Vol.1 No.3): 31.

Ciecko, A. (2006). “Bridges Between: Reflections on Dubai and its International Film Festival,” Asian Cinema, (Vol.17.2, Fall/Winter): 17-24.

Ciecko, A. (2006). “A New Day in Old Sana’a: an interview with the director and producer of Yemen’s first feature film,” Asian Cinema (Vol 17.2. Fall/Winter): 26-31.

Ciecko, A. (2006). “Report: International Film Festival Rotterdam 2006,” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 23.3 (2006): 281-286.

Ciecko, A. (2006). “Ada Apa Dengan Sinema Indonesia? (What’s Up with Indonesian Cinema): Interviews with Filmmakers Riri Riza and Rudy Soedjarwo,” Asian Cinema 17.1 (Spring/Summer): 90-107.

Ciecko, A. (2006). “Festival Focus on Asia” (Fukuoka, Pusan, Dubai, Rotterdam) Afterimage: The Journal of Media Art and Cultural Criticism (March/April): 10-11.

Ciecko, A. (2005) "5th Annual New York Korean Film Festival: ‘Truth or Dare’,” Asian Cinema (Fall/Winter), 301-4.

Ciecko, A. (2004). "Muscle, Market Value, Telegenesis, Cyberpresence: The New Asian Movie Star in the Global Economy of Masculine Images" in Global Currents: Media and Technology Now, edited by Tasha Oren and Patrice Petro (Rutgers University Press), pp.186-199.

Ciecko, A. (2004). "Into the Sc(re)enery: Bollywood Locations and Docu-diaspora," Asian Cinema (Fall): 5-20.

Kwon, J-W. and A. Ciecko (2003). "Memory and Amnesia: An Interview with Korean Director Seong-Wook Moon," Asian Cinema Vol.14. No.l (Spring/Summer): 188-195.

Ciecko, A. (2002). "Ways to Sink the Titanic: Contemporary Box-Office Successes in the Philippines, Thailand, and South Korea," Tamkang Review Vol.XXXIII No.2 (Winter): 1-29.

Ciecko, A. (2002). "Sally Potter: The Making of a British Woman Filmmaker," in Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers, edited by Yvonne Tasker (Routledge), pp. 272-280.

Ciecko, A. (2001). "Superhit Hunk Heroes for Sale: Globalization and Bollywood's Gender Politics," Asian Journal of Communication, Volume 11, No.2: 121-143.

Ciecko, A. (2000). "Cultural Studies and Canons: Asian Cinemas across Disciplines and Institutions" Asian Cinema 11.1 (Spring/Summer): 176-186.

Ciecko, A. and S. Lu. (1999). "Self-Reflexivity and the Hong Kong Action Heroine," Post Script 19.1 (Fall): 70-86.

Ciecko, A. (1999). "Representing the Spaces of Diaspora in Contemporary British Films by Women," Cinema Journal (Summer): 67-90.

Ciecko, A. (1999). "Sex, God, Television, Realism and the British Women Filmmakers" Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 51,  No. l (Spring): 22-41.

Ciecko A. and S. Lu (1998). "Televisuality, Capital, and the Global Village in Zhou Xiaowen's Ermo," Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media: 42: 77-83.

Ciecko, A. (1998). "Transgender, Transgenre, and the Transnational: Sally Potter's Orlando" Velvet Light Trap: A Critical Journal of Film and Television,  41: 19-34.

Ciecko, A. (1997). "Transnational Action: John Woo, Hong Kong, Hollywood," in Transnational Chinese Cinemas: Identity, Nationhood, Gender, edited by Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press), pp. 221-37.

Ciecko, A. (1997). "Bataille and Oshima: Notes on Desire" in Bataille's Eye, edited by Deborah Cullen (NY: Distributed Art Publishers/Institute of Cultural Inquiry), pp. 34-37.

Curriculum Vita