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Call for Papers: Journal of Chinese Cinemas (http://bit.ly/9wEf6E) Special Issue on ³From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas² Guest Editors: Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo From the critical and popular acclaim of Ang Lee¹s Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000) to the Asian Australian success of Tony Ayres¹s The Home Song Stories (2007), diasporic Chinese cinemas have created new filmic sites and visual practices that engage the complex relations between the constructs of China¹, Chinese¹ and Chineseness¹. While the notion of diaspora has broadened these concepts to new areas and new objects of inquiry, Chineseness remains largely a question of ethnicity, bound to nationality. In Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific, Shu-mei Shih (2007) invokes the notion of the Sinophone to respond to the expiry date of the Chinese diaspora as second and third generations become more localized. As a critical concept, the Sinophone removes the emphasis on ethnicity and nationality, and instead highlights communities of Sinitic language cultures spoken and used outside China and on the margins of China and Chineseness². The Sinophone network connects new visualities and communities that have emerged as a result of global capitalism; it critiques home and host cultures, reflecting multi-accented, multilingual histories of transnational migration. This special issue, edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo, focuses on the new cinemas emanating from the Sinophone network, and is scheduled for publication in early 2012. The editors of the special issue now invite abstract submissions of 250-300 words on any of the following aspects: § the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution, consumption and regulation; § cinematic practices of Sinophone resistance, complicity and transformation; § Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production; § new Sinophone visual economies and cultures; § examples of multilingual, multidialect or multi-accented Sinophone cinema in their historical, social or cultural contexts; § comparative Sinophone film studies; § papers in defense¹ of diasporic Chinese cinema frameworks and critiquing the Sinophone model. Each abstract should: · include your name, email and postal address, and institution; · offer a summary of how your proposed essay engages the critical framework of Sinophone cinema. Important dates: · Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 December 2010 · Acceptance notice: 15 January 2011 · Deadline for paper (6000-8000 words) submission: 1 June 2011 Abstract submissions (as word documents by email attachment) to: Audrey Yue (University of Melbourne, Australia): [log in to unmask] Contact for journal information: Song Hwee Lim (Chief Editor, Journal of Chinese Cinemas): [log in to unmask] Are you interested in Intellect or our publications? Find us online... Web: http://www.intellectbooks.com | Blog: http://bit.ly/9mbeMw Facebook: http://bit.ly/IntelectFB | Twitter: http://bit.ly/c83QEk For additional information please contact: James Campbell | Marketing E: [log in to unmask] T: +44 (0) 117 958 9916 -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------