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Call for Papers: Book Proposal - New Perspectives on Transnational East Asian Cinema Edited by Leon Hunt and Wing-Fai Leung With the success of Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Ringu (and its Hollywood remake), Oldboy and Ong-Bak in the west, contemporary East Asian cinema has transcended geographical, cultural and theoretical boundaries. East Asian cinema challenges existing conceptions in film studies such as textuality, authorship, Hollywood domination, third cinema and national allegory. Approaches to understanding contemporary film-making need to be re-assessed, re-imagined and (literally) re-mapped. The articles in this collection will examine films from the Far East and their transnational consumption as an ever changing process, presenting new perspectives that contest existing frameworks in film studies. This collection of essays will explore developments in the transnationalisation of East Asian cinema (and the ‘Asianisation’ of western cinema), with particular emphasis on crossovers, remakes, hybrids and co-productions. This collection grows out of the ‘Hollywood East’ symposium at National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, from which we have already selected the following papers: Chris Howard, South Korea – A Model Film Industry? Leon Hunt, Ong-Bak: New Thai Cinema, Hong Kong and the Cult of the Real Wing-Fai Leung, Regional Strategies for Chinese Language Films and the Blockbuster Gary Needham, The Cathay Musical and Classical Hollywood David Sin, The Distribution and Promotion of East Asian Independent Cinema in the UK Julian Stringer, Ghost Story: Ringu, The Ring, and Cross-Cultural Film Adaptation Abstracts of not more than 500 words to be sent to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] Deadline: February 15th 2005 * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **