Elena Pollacchi

Elena Pollacchi is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Languages and Literatures, University of Gothenburg. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese cinema with a particular emphasis on documentary practices, political narratives, and the interplay between film festivals and cultural soft power. She has published extensively on filmmakers like Wang Bing, Jia Zhangke, and Tsai Ming-liang, analyzing their works' engagement with socio-political themes in China.

Her work interrogates how Chinese art cinema navigates state narratives and constructs alternative realities through documentary formats. Key publications include analyses of Wang Bing's counter-hegemonic storytelling and the geopolitical role of film festivals like Venice in shaping international perceptions of Chinese cinema.

No academic awards or supervised students are listed in the provided materials. She is actively engaged in scholarly discourse on cinema's role in cultural diplomacy and maintains an office at Renströmsgatan 6 in Göteborg.