NIKKI J. Y. LEE is Lecturer in Culture and Gender Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul. Her article ’Salute to Mr Vengeance: The Making of a Transnational Auteur Park Chan-Wook’ appears in East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film (I.B. Tauris, 2008). Her book Branding East Asian Cinema: Orientalism and Auteurism will be published by Hong Kong UP in 2011.
JULIAN STRINGER is Associate Professor in Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham, and co-editor of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies. He is editor of Movie Blockbusters (Routledge, 2003), co-editor (with Chi-Yun Shin) of New Korean Cinema (Edinburgh UP/New York UP, 2005) and co-editor (with Alastair Phillips) of Japanese Cinema: Texts and Contexts