Chengting Mao is a Ph.D. candidate in the Communications and new media programme at the National University of Singapore. She works for Prof Chung Peichi on the research projects of game industries in China and Southeast Asia. She is interested in popular culture, convergence culture, film studies, and gender studies. Her dissertation examines the representation of heroine images in Hollywood. The title of her thesis is “Just Look At it: (Post)Feminism, Postmodernism, and Contemporary Action Heroine Cinema.”
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