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> Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference, Istanbul
> 20-23 July 2006
>
> Open Session : 'Globalisaton and Transnational East Asian Cinemas'
>
> Description:
> Alongside Hollywood films’ global prevalence over the world film
> market, we currently witness the unprecedented degree of growing
> recognition and popularity of East Asian films on the worldwide
> scale: the international success of Zhang Yimou’s Hero, the
> popularity of Japanese horror films and critical acclaims in Europe
> of such Korean film directors as Kim Ki-duk (The Isle, Spring,
> Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring
> ) and Park Chan-wook (Old Boy, Lady Vengeance).
>
> The panel aims to draw attention to a wide range of cultural
> phenomenon engendered by East Asian cinemas’ turning transnational:
> What kind of (new) cultural domains do these films create and
> involve as they travel to the foreign lands traversing national
> borders?; Will they be constrained into Orientalist conceptions of
> ‘otherness’ consumed as exotic cultural objects?; Does this
> transnational success bring into significant cinematic or cultural
> changes back in their homeland?; What are the economical powers and
> networks perpetuating it? etc.
>
> The panel discusses whether such transnationalisation of East Asian
> films can be viewed as an inevitable process of globalization or as
> setting alternative or distinctive cultural routes.
>
> Paper proposals of no more than 150 words dealing with
> globalization and transnational East Asian cinemas to be submitted
> by Jan 31, 2006,
> to
>
> Nikki J.Y. Lee (Goldsmiths College, UK)
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