One-Day Symposium
Hollywood: East
Cross-currents between contemporary filmmaking in America and East Asia
Wednesday 29 September 2004
10:00am- 4:30 pm
Following the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Ang Lee 2000), more and more remakes, appropriations and hybrid films are emerging from Hollywood and Asian film industries. The popularity of martial arts and samurai themed movies like Kill Bill Vol.1 & 2 (Quentin Tarantino 2003, 2004), Japanese horror and Korean cinema signals a hype reminiscent of 1970s kung fu fever. What do these trends mean for film productions, distribution, exhibition and the festival circuits? How are the co-productions and crossover films changing the nature of Hollywood and East Asian cinemas? These films also offer contemporary audiences different experiences and complex, often contradictory articulations of gender and race.
With new industrial practices, existing theoretical positions within film studies are contested and re-imagined, and ways of understanding contemporary filmmaking have to be re-mapped.
Open to film lovers, industry, scholars and students, Hollywood: East will interrogate these perspectives:
10:30-11:10 Wing-Fai Leung (SOAS, University of London/NMPFT)
ß CEPA, Regional Strategies for Chinese Language Films and the Blockbuster
11:10-11:50 Gary Needham (Nottingham Trent University)
ß The Cathay Musical and Classical Hollywood
12:20-1:00 Julian Stringer (Nottingham University)
ß Remake of Japanese Horror (the Ring Series) (title to be confirmed)
2:00-2:40 Chris Howard (SOAS, University of London)
ß South Korea – A Model Film Industry?
2:40-3:20 David Sin (Film Industry Consultant)
ß The Distribution and Promotion of East Asian Independent Cinema in the UK
3:50-4:30 Leon Hunt (Brunel University)
ß Ong-Bak: New Thai Cinema, Hong Kong and the Cult of the Real
A day pass for the symposium costs £12/£6 concessions (under-15s, OAPs, registered disabled, students, JSA and Passport to Leisure cards). Free for Bite the Mango Festival pass holders.
National Museum of Photography, Film & Television
Bradford BD1 1NQ
Education booking: 0870 7010201
For more information on the symposium: 01274 203409
BITE THE MANGO Film Festival 2004
Cultural Cinema from Around the World
http://www.bitethemango.org.uk/2004/home.asp
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