Program Convenor (Foundation Studies - Central Coast) and Lecturer in Film and Literature, University of Newcastle
Joyleen Christensen's research focuses on issues related to her chosen disciplines of film, media, and cultural studies, as well as her interest in pedagogy and support strategies centred on enabling education.
Her doctoral thesis looked at the career of Hong Kong entertainer, Andy Lau, and examined the production and consumption of contemporary Chinese celebrity against significant social and historical movements in regional and transnational cultural relations over the last thirty years.

The Great Wall fails to bring down the barriers in a lacklustre Chinese-US epic
Feb 17, 2017 07:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Entertainment
Matt Damon was right to insist that commentators wait to see the finished film before making judgements about his role as a white saviour of China in the new Chinese-US coproduction, The Great Wall. That being said, the...