Symposium on J & C cinemas in Shanghai

[Hideaki Fujiki]

Dear list members,

We are going to hold a symposium on transmedia, focusing on Chinese and Japanese cinemas, in Shanghai on December 11, 2011, as below. This is part of the symposium titled "Traversing Cultural and Media Boundaries: Translation and Transmedia." Anyone is welcome to join us. I would also appreciate it if you forward this information to people, especially scholars and students in East Asian cinema, who may be interested in the event.

Hideaki Fujiki


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International Symposium
http://www.lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp/research/mcjc/
http://visual-studies.net/

"Traversing Cultural and Media Boundaries: Translation and Transmedia"


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Time: December 11, 2011

Language: English (Discussion is conducted in Chinese and Japanese.)

Location: Conference Room A4 on the 2nd Floor in Shanghai Mart 
		http://www.shanghaimart.com
	    （ShangHaiShi ChangNingQu Yan An Xi Lu 2299）

Sponsored by Research Center for Modern and Contemporary Japanese Culture, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University
			  http://www.lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp/research/mcjc/
Co-sponsored by Center for Foreign Literatures, School of Foreign Languages, Shangahai Jiao Tong University

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December 11 (Sun)
Symposium II: Transmedia

09:45-　Opening Address：FUJIKI Hideaki (Nagoya University)

<SESSION 1> 09:55-
10:00-
YING Xiong (Hokkaido University)
“Becoming-animal and its Speed: Tian Zhuangzhuang’s The Warrior and the Wolf (2008)”

10:25-
MIZUNO Masanori (Tokyo University of the Arts) & MIZUKAWA Hirofumi (Nagoya University)
“Nature and Destruction on the Computer”

10:50-
FUJIKI Hideaki (Nagoya University) & XU Dongmei (Nagoya University)
“Global Film Stardom and Transmedia: Zhang Ziyi's Celebrity Culture”

11:15-11:30 tea break

11:30-12:30
Comment by SUN Shaoyi (Shanghai University) & discussion 

12:30-14:10 lunch

<SESSION 2> 14:10-
14:15-
ZHANG Zhen (New York University) 
"World Expo, Film History and the New (Old) Shanghai Imaginary"

14:40-
KINOSHITA Chika (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)
“Before the Revolution: Intermediality, Mass Culture, and Japanese Cinema, 1929-1931”

15:05-
CHEN Jie (Nanjing University of the Arts)
“Blind Chance or Destiny? : The Revival of the Fatalism in Contemporary Films”

15:30-15:45 tea break

15:45-17:00
Comment by Emilie Yueh Yu YEH (Hong Kong Baptist University) & discussion