Gina Marchetti

Gina Marchetti teaches film, gender, and sexuality at The University of Hong Kong. She is the author of "Romance and the 'Yellow Peril'" (California, 1993), "From Tian’anmen to Times Square" (Temple, 2006), "The Chinese Diaspora on American Screens" (Temple, 2012), and "Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s INFERNAL AFFAIRS—The Trilogy" (HKUP, 2007). Aaron Han Joon Magnan-Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at The University of Hong Kong. He specializes in poly-Asian cinema from a global perspective with a focus on action aesthetics and ethno-cultural nationalism. He has held academic appointments in France, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and the United States.Stacilee Ford is a cultural historian and an honorary associate professor at The University of Hong Kong's Department of History and American Studies Program. She is also a board member of the Women’s Studies Research Centre. She writes about the intersections of history, gender, national identity, and ethnicity.

Articles by Gina Marchetti

Media, Science & the Arts

MOOCs Turn Local into Global

Thursday, January 18, 2018

The popularization of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) has led universities to rethink their missions. “Hong Kong Cinema Through a Global Lens,” a prize-winning MOOC at The University of Hong Kong, combines classroom and online learning to enhance students' exposure to the world. Far from taking teachers out of the learning experience, the MOOC enriches the value of the student-teacher relationship beyond the classroom.