CALL FOR PAPERS
Transnational Cinema in Globalising Societies: Asia and Latin America
29-31 August
Jointly organised by the Institute for Comparative Cultural Studies,
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China and the Universidad
Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico, to be held in Puebla, Mexico.
Keynote Speakers
o Professor Néstor García Canclini, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
o Professor Robert Stam, University of New York
o Professor Chris Berry, University of London, Goldsmith's College
If cinema was instrumental to nation building processes during the
twentieth century, it has been equally central to their challenging,
interrogation and sometimes reaffirmation in the twenty-first. This is
especially true for Asian and Latin American cinemas, as present
conditions variously described as 'globalisation' or 'flexible
accumulation' have wrought tremendous social change, both rising
standards of living and increasing inequality; allowing for reverse
cultural flows and also exposing the mediascapes of countries in these
two regions to unprecedented contact with 'the West'; reducing their
film production while also increasing availability of films made
there. We invite papers addressing the relationship between these
cinemas and (post)national identity, cinema and
modernity/postmodernity, exilic cinema, diasporic and border
filmmaking, the effects of digital technology on filmmaking and
viewing in Asia and Latin America and, more generally, on the impact
of globalisation on film industries in these two regions.
The following topics would be especially welcome:
* Contemporary issues of audience reception
* The role of co-productions
* Cross-fertilisation of genre across Asian/Latin American Cinemas
* The role of festivals in the construction and promotion of Asian and
Latin American transnational cinemas
* Diasporic cinema
* Asian and Latin American directors and contemporary auteur theory
* The Cultural construction of Stars and Fandom in Internet communities
* Alternative versions of modernity in Asian and Latin American cinema
Send 300 word abstract to the organisers, Armida de la Garza and
Claudia Magallanes, by 1 April 2008 to the following address:
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
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