James Tweedie is an assistant professor of comparative literature at the University of Washington. He has published essays in Cinema Journal, Screen, SubStance, and Twentieth Century Literature, as well as the edited volumes Cinema Taiwan (2007) and Open Bazin (forthcoming) and the anthology Queer Screen (2007). He is the coeditor of Cinema at the City’s Edge: Film and Urban Networks in East Asia (2010) and is completing a comparative study of cinematic new waves from the late 1950s to the 1990s.