Lingnan University Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries (DACI)
ORCID: 0000-0001-8157-4660
Research Interests
Chinese-language Cinema
Film Historiography
Hong Kong Cinema
Film Criticism
Cultural Studies
Urban Studies
Professional Affiliations
- Research Assistant Professor / Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University
- Founder / Cinezen (Film Review Website)
- Founder / Paratext (Academic Review Website)
- Founder / Typesetter Publishing
- Part-time Lecturer / Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Programme Coordinator (2016) / Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Member / Preparatory Committee for the 10th "Dream of the Red Chamber" Award (2023-2024)
- Co-convenor / Lingnan Arts Biennale 2023 Working Group
Academic Honors
- Champion, Literary Criticism Category, Chinese Literature Creation Award 2010
- Award for Young Artist (Arts Criticism)
Professional Experience
2022.01 - Present
Research Assistant Professor
Teaching and research in Chinese-language cinema historiography, Hong Kong cinema, independent cinema, and film policy.
2014 - 2016
Part-time Lecturer, Programme Coordinator (from 2016)
Served as Part-time Lecturer from 2014, and as Programme Coordinator of the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Creative Writing for Film from 2016.
2014.05 - Present
Founder
Founded the film review website Cinezen in May 2014.
2015 - Present
Founder
Founded the academic review website Paratext in 2015.
2015 - Present
Founder
Founded the independent publisher Typesetter Publishing in 2015, specializing in rare academic publications.
Biography
Dr. Enoch Tam Yee-lok is a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Digital Arts and Creative Industries, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. Born in 1981, he holds a B.Eng. in Computer Science (2003), an M.A. in Humanities (2007), and an M.Phil. in Humanities (2009) from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and a Ph.D. in Communication from Hong Kong Baptist University (2018). His research focuses on the film historiography of Chinese-language cinema. He is the founder of the film review website Cinezen, the art news website Paratext , and Typesetter Publishing. He served as a member of the Preparatory Committee for the 10th "Dream of the Red Chamber" Award.
Awards & Recognition
- First Prize in Literary Criticism Category, Hong Kong Public Library Creative Writing Awards
- Award for Young Artist (Arts Criticism), Hong Kong Arts Development Awards
Publications & Representative Works
Complete Bibliography
2025
The Reception Modes of Chinese Web Films: Dynamics of Symbolic Reception and Affective Consumption, 2014–2023
2025
The Coming of Age of Hong Kong: Dung Kai-cheung‘s Celestial Creations and the Works of Man: Vividness and Veracity
Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
2025
Hong Kong social issue films: Socio-economic and mental precarization
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
2024
Precarious Lives through Stephen Chow's Comic Lens: Speculation, Caricature, and Precariat
The Cinema of Stephen Chow Bloomsb
2022
Platform Capitalism
Typesetter Publishing
2020
Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity
Typesetter Publishing
2018
Indiescape Hong Kong: Critical Essays and Interviews
Typesetter Publishing
2017
Therefore I Sit Down and Listen to the Tales of H City Told by Bartender M
Post Script Cultural Collaboration
2017
On Earth We Stand: Hong Kong Independent Film Festival 2008-2017
Typesetter Publishing
2015
The Silver Star Group: A First Attempt at Theorizing Wenyi in the 1920s
Journal of Chinese Cinemas
2013
Colourful Screens: Water Imaginaries in Documentaries from China and Taiwan
Film Culture in an Era of Ecological Transformation
2011
The Happy Times of Blackeye
Twilit Publication
The Coming of Age of Hong Kong: Dung Kai-cheung‘s Celestial Creations and the Works of Man: Vividness and Veracity
Coming of Age in Chinese Literature and Cinema
