Lim bio and publications

Assistant Professor
Film and Media Studies
flim@uci.edu

Bliss Lim teaches courses on Third World and Postcolonial Studies, Asian national cinemas (Philippines, Hong Kong, and India), temporality, and film genres (camp/cult/trash, horror, and documentary). She is currently working on a book project on fantastic cinema and modern time consciousness, tentatively entitled “Fantastic Cinema: Nonsynchronism and Historical Difference”. She envisions a next research project on taste cultures, with particular emphasis on marketplace orientalism, gendered/sexed consumption, and queer communities.

Selected Publications:
“Spectral Times: The Ghost Film as Historical Allegory.” positions: east asia cultures critique 9.2 [Special Issue, Asia/Pacific Cinemas: A Spectral Surface] (Fall 2001): 287-329.
“ Dolls in Fragments: Daisies as Feminist Allegory.” Camera Obscura 47 16.2 (Fall 2001): 37-77.
“American pictures made by Filipinos”: Eddie Romero’s Jungle-Horror Exploitation Films.” Spectator 22. No.1 (Fall 2002).
“True Fictions: Women’s Narratives And Historical Trauma.” The Velvet Light Trap 45 (Spring 2000): 62-75.
“The Politics of Horror: The Aswang [Filipino Viscera-Sucker] in Film.” Asian Cinema 9.1 (Fall 1997): 81-98.
“Perfumed Nightmare and The Perils Of Jameson’s ‘New Political Culture.’” Philippine Critical Forum 1.1 (1995) 24-37.
“Serial Time: Bluebeard in Stepford.” Film and Literature: A Reader. Ed. Robert Stam (Forthcoming, Blackwell Press, 2003).
The Exorcist. Understanding Film Genres. Eds. Steven Schneider, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (Forthcoming, McGraw-Hill, 2003).