CALL FOR PAPERS!
*International Postgraduate Conference: *
*NEW GENERATION CHINESE CINEMA*
*May **26th-27th** 2011, London. *
Taking market forces and China’s new role as a global leader in economics
and culture as the two key aspects of the period from 2000, the New Chinese
Cinema conference seeks to draw together the disparate threads of Chinese
film practice from the last ten years. Commodification has redrawn the
coordinates of Chinese film: from commercial Chinese blockbusters to
regional films; from popular genre waves to avant-garde art works; from
ethnographic documentaries to amateur works that use digital filming
techniques. Out of a changing post-socialist state, unheralded filmmakers
have found the opportunity to forge a praxis that expresses the thought of a
society under the commodity form. As commodities these films are exchanged
within networks that are both local and global in nature, at international
film festivals, at amateur screenings in China’s cities and villages and via
the Internet. Highlighting the uniqueness and the importance of the films
coming out of China in the era of neoliberal globalisation, this conference
aims to demonstrate the continued importance of film as a key means through
which social change is experienced and expressed.
*Papers on the following categories are particularly welcome, though papers
on other relevant topics will also be given full consideration: *
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+ Film as commodity in neoliberal China
+ Social change and changing film practice
+ Digital filmmaking and the role of the Internet
+ Cinema consumption and China’s new urban middle class
+ Transnational, national, or Cosmopolitan?
+ The rise of regional film-making in China
+ Urban reform and gentrification
+ Genre films e.g. Chinese horror cinema
+ Blockbuster, and Leitmotif (*zhuxuanlu*) films
+ Generational Taxonomy (Fifth, Sixth, Seventh?)—an outmoded concept?
+ Individual Documentary practice
+ Eco-cinema in the PRC
Please send abstracts not exceeding 250 words, accompanied by a brief
biographical sketch to, [log in to unmask] The deadline for submissions
is*25 February 2011*. Submissions from early career scholars and PhD
candidates are strongly encouraged. Receipt of submissions will be
acknowledged via email. Participants will be informed of the committee's
decision by* 18 March 2011*. Registration will begin in late March.
*Keynote Speakers *
Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College), Yomi Braester (University of Washington),
Zhang Zhen (New York University), Lu Xinyu (Fudan University)
*Co-organized by: *
Keith B. Wagner, King’s College London
Kiki Tianqi Yu, Westminster University
Luke Vulpiani, King’s College London
*Co-sponsored by** *King's College London, University of Westminster, *dsl
collection.*
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Kiki Tianqi Yu
Ph.D candidate, University of Westminster
Independent Programmer / video-maker
www.cubemagic.org/
www.vimeo.com/kikiyu
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