CFP: Asia Exposure

[Aaron Gerow]

CALL FOR PAPERS





CUEAFS Presents


Asia Exposure: East Asian Cinema in a Global Context (Coventry  
University, February 10-11, 2011)

A two-day international symposium and on East Asian Cinema and Film  
Festival (sponsored by Third Window Films) organised by Spencer Murphy  
(Coventry University), John Berra (Nanjing University) and Colette  
Balmain (Coventry University) and funded by Coventry University.

The films that have emerged from East Asia in the past decade have  
invigorated international cinema with their originality and vitality,  
capturing the attention of academics and audiences alike. Asian  
Exposure aims to capture this vitality through a combination of formal  
and informal talks, film screenings at the Warwick Art Centre  
sponsored by Third Window Films, Q&A sessions with key directors,  
workshops and themed events.

·       We seek papers that represent the diversity of East Asian  
Cinema and engage with the films from a variety of perspectives –  
academic, fan based, journalism, festival management, student,  
distribution companies and publishing – across disciplines and  
countries.


·       As this symposium emerges from the work done by CUEAFS  
(Coventry University East Asian Film Society), one of the foremost  
aims of the symposium is to challenge academic boundaries and  
conventions in relation to the production and dissemination of  
knowledge. As such, we actively welcome the submission of abstracts of  
work-in-progress, pre-formed panels, workshops or proposed discussion  
sessions by students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, in addition  
to academics, journalists, and people involved in the consumption,  
promotion and distribution of East Asian Cinema.


·       The purpose of the symposium and film festival is to develop a  
network of people involved with the production, distribution,  
reception and analysis of East Asian cinema.  It is anticipated that  
the symposium will reflect the excitement and interest generated by  
the emergence of East Asian cinema onto the global screen, while also  
offering new insights into local productions and co-productions which  
have been overlooked by scholars and audiences in the West.


The main criteria is that proposals should be related to one of the  
four cinematic territories (China, Hong Kong, Japan or South Korea).  
Pre-formed panels, workshops, presentation of work-in-progress, and  
panels are sought. Suggested areas are below, but we welcome proposals  
on other areas of interest which fulfil the main purpose of the  
symposium.

Traditions and Directions
·       Diasporic texts/Diasporic directors

·       The auteur and the canon

·       Western co-productions and Hollywood Remakes/East Asian co- 
productions and remakes of Hollywood films

·       Academic approaches/theories of East Asian Cinema including  
questions of the transnational and the global

·       Orientalism/Occidentalism/Self-Orientalism

·       National Cinema and nationalism

·       Institution and Industry

·       Relationship between traditional arts and cinema as a  
mechanism of local identification and signification


Representations of Self and Other
·       Class, society and the representation of disenfranchisement

·       Ethnicity, empowerment and disempowerment

·       Gender and sexual politics

·       Sexuality beyond the heterosexual paradigm

·       Consumerism and new sexual identities

·       Monstrous becomings between East and West: zombies/ghosts/ 
cyborgs/vampires

·       Social issues on screen

·       Trauma and national identity


Genre and Beyond
·       Traditional genres

·       Blockbusters and Franchises

·       K-horror/J-horror and A-horror

·       Feminist cinema/Films directed by women

·       Independent cinema/Experimental cinema

·       Queer cinema

·       Pink/Adult cinema

·       Anime – adult/family

·       Youth films

·       War cinema

·       Romance, comedy and melodrama

·       Film adaptations of novels/manga/anime

·       Star as genre

·       Hybrid/diffused genres

·       Technology and East Asian Cinema


Audiences and Reception
·       Fancultures

·       Translation – subtitling and/or dubbing

·       Screen quotas and exhibition

·       Film Criticism/Journalism/Websites

·       Cosplay and performance

·       Different modes of spectatorship (home/cinema/festival)



Promotion, Distribution and Marketing
·       Film Festivals e.g. Pusan Film Festival, London Korean Film  
Festival, FRIGHTFEST and FANTASIA film festivals, gay and lesbian film  
festivals.

·       East Asian cinema on the internet: websites, blogs, on-line  
journals, youtube, specialist Asian film sites

·       Production companies and governmental policy

·       Distribution companies and networks


The symposium will be held at Coventry University from February 10-11,  
2011. This event is being arranged in conjunction with the Third  
Window Film Festival, which will be held at Warwick Art Centre from  
February 11-13, 2011. The festival will host the UK premieres of  
several major releases from East Asia with special guests to be  
confirmed. For more details please go to the symposium website:

Please send a 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper to eastasiancinema at yahoo.co.uk 
.  Pre-formed panels and workshops will be allocated no more than 60  
minutes. General inquiries should be sent to Colette Balmain (balmacolet at aol.com 
).

Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2010
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