Second call for papers
Genre in Asian Film and Television (collection)
Edited by: Xin Zhang (University of Wales Aberystwyth), Angelina Karpovich (Brunel University), and Felicia Chan (University of Ulster).
This is a second call for papers for a proposed collection investigating genre in Asian film and television. The main motivation for this second call is to fill in gaps in the field that the collection still has room for.
In the first proposal, a call was put forward for essays on studies in Asian cinema and television that aimed to address those genres and locations which have so far been overlooked in much of English-language academic writing on the subject.
Currently, we have submissions in the following areas:
• Anime re-imagining of Europe
• Chinese documentary
• Chinese literary adaptation for television
• Contemporary Japanese costume drama
• Contemporary Singapore cinema
• Genre as a means of cross-cultural negotiation
• Indonesian reality television
• South Korean legal dramas
• Soviet Central Asian film
We would like to include essays on the following topics/areas of research:
• Representations of 'Asia' in genre films/television
• 'Asian genres' versus 'genres in Asian film/television'
• Films/television of/by/for Asian diaspora communities
• Non-Japanese animation or non-anime Japanese animation
• Propaganda films/television
• Television genres in Asia
• Folklore, literary, and comic book adaptations
Proposals on subjects outside these areas are welcome, especially if they are studies that provoke new thinking on where the boundaries surrounding notions of 'Asia' and 'genre' might lie. These may include case studies of individual media texts, comparative studies across generic or national contexts, and overviews of the historical development of genres within particular national (and trans- and inter-national) contexts, as well as of new or lesser explored genres, such as non-Japanese animation produced in Asia.
Proposals of up to 500 words, including a brief author bio and publishing history, and any inquiries, should be sent to asiangenre_at_googlemail.com by 15th October 2007. Completed papers of about 5,000 to 6,000 words are expected by 30th December 2007.
Felicia Chan
Research Associate (Comparative Film Studies)
School of Media, Film and Journalism
University of Ulster
Cromore Road
Coleraine, BT55 7GF, U.K.
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