*New Asian Pacific Cinemas seminar

[Kyung Hyun Kim]

please help us make the announcement.  Please note that the seating is
indeed limited!

Kyung Hyun


New Asian Pacific Cinemas


An International Conference

sponsored by
UC Pacific Rim Research Program
UC Irvine Center for Humanities
and
Positions: East Asian Critique

with the
UC Irvine Department of
East Asian Languages and Literatures
and the
Program in Film Studies

October 8 and 9, 1999
Humanities Instructional Building (HIB) 135
UC Irvine


Seating Limited.  RSVP Required.



Friday, October 8

Panel 1:  3-6pm
Discussants: Chungmoo Choi (UCI), Mayfair Mei-hui Yang (UCSB)

Yingjin Zhang (Indiana University)
The Glocal City in the Transnational Imaginary: Disappearance and
Reinscription in Chinese Urban Cinema

Fatimah Rony (UC Irvine)
Marlon Fuentes' Bontoc Eulogy

Joan Kee (Harvard Universty)
Single Korean Female: Hysteria and the Malaise of the Urban in Contemporary
Korean Film

Saturday, October 9

Breakfast  8:30

Panel 2:  9-12pm
Discussants: Shu-mei Shih (UCLA), Bhaskar Sarkar (UCSB)

Gina Marchetti (Ithaca College)
Counter-Media and Global Screens: Recent Work by Shu Lea Chang

Helen Leung (University of British Columbia, Canada)
The Production of Queerscapes in Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema

Jonathan Beller (UC Santa Cruz)
The Violation of the Real: Philippine Cinema in a Global Frame

Esther Yau (Occidental College)
A Place to Speak Someone's Words: Reiteration, Location and Zhang Yimou's
Realism

Panel 3:  1:30-5:50pm
Disussants: Rey Chow (UCI), Ted Fowler (UCI)

Susan Napier (University of Texas, Austin)
Remaking Master Narratives: History and Identity in Miyazaki Hayao's
Monokehime

Aaron Gerow (Yokohama National University)
A Scene in the Threshold: National Liminality in Contemporary Japanese Cinema

Bliss Cua Lim (New York University)
Ghostly Places, Spectral Women in the Cinema of Nostalgia

Roland Tolentino (University of the Philippines)
Power, Gangsterism and the masses in the films of President Joseph 'Erap'
Estrada

Reception  6:00


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FILM SCREENING  7:00pm  HIB 100
presented by the Film and Video Center

Empty House (Gina Kim, 1999)  24 min. 16mm U.S. Premiere!
Edited from video diary footage, Empty House documents a young woman's
struggles with PMS, depression, and eating disorders.

Fresh Kill (Shu Lea Cheang, 1994) 80 min. 35 mm
Shu Lea Cheang's debut feature, Fresh Kill, brings together global and
local issues through the story of a young lesbian couple's personal
encounter with toxic waste that is being spread throughout New York City
via contaminated sushi.  Cheang's filmic style borrows much from
channel-surfing--in Fresh Kill different storylines and characters "break
into" otherwise static
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The focus of, this conference will be discussion rather than presentation,
and, therefore, we ask all interested parties to RSVP for the event.  We
expect everyone in attendance at the conference to read all of the papers
prior to the conference.  For more information and to RSVP, please call the
department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at (949) 824-2227 or
e-mail mmason at uci.edu by October 4, 1999.