Dorothy Wai Sim Lau is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (2019), Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (2021), Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary (2024), and East Asian Auteurs, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era (2025). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield in 2022.

Focusing on East Asian filmmakers and a wide range of cinephilic responses to their work across multiple digital platforms, Dorothy Wai Sim Lau’s Rethinking Film Authorship offers fresh insight into understanding the persistence of auteurism as a cultural and intellectual force in the study of film and screen media.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sketch the Scene: East Asian Auteurs in Platformised Cinephilic Networks1. Parodying Wong Kar-wai: Remakes and Remixes of Auteurist Brand on Bilibili2. Ozu on Criterion and Letterboxd: The Digitally Mediated Posthumous Auteur Persona3. Becoming Viral and Meme-able: Bong Joon-ho and the Korean-Global Auteur Identity4. Between Independent Power and State Governance: Jia Zhangke’s Contentious Status on Douban5. Self-Making and the Auteurist Discourse of Anthony Chen on Social Networking Platforms6. Sylvia Chang on MUBI: Female Film Authorship and the Promise of Taste MakingConclusion: Film Authorship Reloaded: The Mutating Auteur-Cinephile Politics in East AsiaBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (2019), Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (2021), Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary (2024), and East Asian Auteurs, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era (2025). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield in 2022.

Focusing on East Asian filmmakers and a wide range of cinephilic responses to their work across multiple digital platforms, Dorothy Wai Sim Lau’s Rethinking Film Authorship offers fresh insight into understanding the persistence of auteurism as a cultural and intellectual force in the study of film and screen media.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sketch the Scene: East Asian Auteurs in Platformised Cinephilic Networks1. Parodying Wong Kar-wai: Remakes and Remixes of Auteurist Brand on Bilibili2. Ozu on Criterion and Letterboxd: The Digitally Mediated Posthumous Auteur Persona3. Becoming Viral and Meme-able: Bong Joon-ho and the Korean-Global Auteur Identity4. Between Independent Power and State Governance: Jia Zhangke’s Contentious Status on Douban5. Self-Making and the Auteurist Discourse of Anthony Chen on Social Networking Platforms6. Sylvia Chang on MUBI: Female Film Authorship and the Promise of Taste MakingConclusion: Film Authorship Reloaded: The Mutating Auteur-Cinephile Politics in East AsiaBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Dorothy Wai Sim Lau is an Associate Professor at the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Her research interests include stardom, celebrities, fandom, Asian cinema, Hong Kong cinema, digital culture and screen culture. She is the author of Chinese Stardom in Participatory Cyberculture (2019), Reorienting Chinese Stars in Global Polyphonic Networks: Voice, Ethnicity, Power (2021), Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary (2024), and East Asian Auteurs, Cinephilia and the Media Platform Era (2025). Lau was the visiting scholar at the School of East Asian Studies, The University of Sheffield in 2022.

Focusing on East Asian filmmakers and a wide range of cinephilic responses to their work across multiple digital platforms, Dorothy Wai Sim Lau’s Rethinking Film Authorship offers fresh insight into understanding the persistence of auteurism as a cultural and intellectual force in the study of film and screen media.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Sketch the Scene: East Asian Auteurs in Platformised Cinephilic Networks1. Parodying Wong Kar-wai: Remakes and Remixes of Auteurist Brand on Bilibili2. Ozu on Criterion and Letterboxd: The Digitally Mediated Posthumous Auteur Persona3. Becoming Viral and Meme-able: Bong Joon-ho and the Korean-Global Auteur Identity4. Between Independent Power and State Governance: Jia Zhangke’s Contentious Status on Douban5. Self-Making and the Auteurist Discourse of Anthony Chen on Social Networking Platforms6. Sylvia Chang on MUBI: Female Film Authorship and the Promise of Taste MakingConclusion: Film Authorship Reloaded: The Mutating Auteur-Cinephile Politics in East AsiaBibliographyFilmographyIndex