CFP: Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference

[Aaron Gerow]

CALL FOR PAPERS

ASIAN CINEMA IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION

The 1990s witnessed profound changes in Asian media as national systems 
of communication were deregulated and privatized; as these phenomena, 
coupled with the proliferation of new information technology, allowed an 
onrush of outside media owners and programmers to dominate the Asian 
scene; and as national governments began to accept tenets of 
"democratization." Cinema, of course, was also profoundly affected by 
these same factors. The Asian Cinema Studies Society 2000 conference 
hopes to address how deregulation, globalization, and democratization 
have changed the ways Asian cinema is conceptualized, produced, 
distributed, and exhibited.

Some possible questions to be explored are the following: 

Have Asian film industries retained or lost their autonomy in the light 
of globalization? 

What have been the impacts on local film industries of restrictive U.S. 
trade policies, some dealing with culture? 

Have Asian film formats, styles, and genres been changed by 
globalization? 

Have they been further Hollywoodized? 

What have been some of the unique ways used by producers and directors to 
ensure their autonomy and independence? 

Are Asian cinemas freer to tackle political, social, and gender issues 
since the advent of "democratization"? 

Other topics not directly related to the conference theme, but dealing 
with an aspect of Asian cinema, will be considered. Possible topics might 
include:

       Transnational Reception 
       Asian Diaspora Cinemas 
       Fissures in Patriarchal Systems as Asian Women Make Movies 
       International Hybridizations and Their Aesthetic Implications 
       Historical Roots of Current Trends. 

The ACSS 2000 conference, scheduled for May 19 - 21, 2000, will be 
sponsored by the Film and Video Studies Program of the University of 
Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. Proposals for panels, workshops, and papers 
should be submitted by November 30 (Deadline Extended), 1999, to Dr. John 
Lent, 669 Ferne Blvd., Drexel Hill, PA, 19026. Participants will be 
notified by December 31, 1999. Abstract proposals should be no longer 
than 200 words.

You can visit the ACSS website at: 

http://homepages.msn.com/NonProfitBlvd/umagal/ACSSframe.htm