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CFP: Time, Space, and the Visceral in Southeast Asian Cinema
9th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC)
July 20th-22nd, 2016, University of Nottingham, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Cinema’s representation and manipulation of space, time, and
spatiotemporal-perception have been critical to the theorization and
practice of the medium since its origins. Accounting for cinema as a text,
an industrial practice, a form of leisure, and a mode of visuality, such
critical approaches have considered the advent and spread of mass
communications technologies as both symptoms and catalysts of drastic
changes in space-time perception and representation, with particularly
dramatic, if often ‘belated,’ effects occurring outside of the West.
In the context of Southeast Asia, how might contemporary readings of local
films, analyses of common exhibition practices like mobile cinemas, or
investigations of the relationship between movies and other longstanding
art forms engage, and possibly challenge, these influential theorizations?
Furthermore, how have local and embodied understandings of spatiality and
temporality, and ways of representing or manipulating space and time –
whether “traditional” or otherwise – influenced and shaped the texture,
formal qualities, or narrative styles of films and cinemas in Southeast
Asia? How might practices and technologies of production, distribution, and
reception contribute to the creation of new spatiotemporal orders?
Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:
Sites of cinema exhibition and reception.
Spatial-temporal distribution patterns, audiences, and publics.
Spaces of production, production cultures, labor.
Scales of media industrial practice (global, regional, national, local).
Representations of intra- and transnational migration, urbanization, the
rural.
Embodiment and spectatorship.
The importance of sound in reception and the production of affect.
Colonial-imperial spaces and film.
Memory, nostalgia, and space.
Screen media, geography, and mapping.
Tourism, travel, and film.
Space, spectatorship, and filmic visuality.
New media, space, and time.
ASEACC welcomes presentations related to the conference theme or to
Southeast Asian cinemas more broadly. Past conferences have included site
visits, screenings, and presentations from academics, critics, filmmakers,
archivists, and others interested in Southeast Asian screen media.
Please check our website archives and conference programs for past paper
topics as we are less likely to accept topics that have been covered
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Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30, 2015. Please send an abstract
(max. 300 words) and short bio (max. 100 words) to: Katinka Van Heeren (
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Jasmine Nadua Trice ([log in to unmask]).