Earlier this year the first East Winds symposium and film festival was held at Coventry University – a three day event with the intention of raising awareness of Asian cinema for a crowd ‘who might normally not have much chance to catch Asian cinema on the big screen.’ The event was, to all intents and purposes, a great success – you can check out the CUEAFS website for some pictures of the events along with an interview with Adam Torrel from Third Window Films who sponsored the festival screenings. Preparations are now underway for next years event and full details of speakers and films will appear later (although Jasper Sharp from Zipungu Fest and Dr. Paul Bowman from Cardiff University have been confirmed as keynote speakers) however this years call for papers has just been released and is posted in full below…
CALL FOR PAPERS
East Winds: East Asian Cinema and Cultural Crossovers
(Coventry University, March 2nd- 4th, 2012)
CONFIRMED KEY NOTES:
Dr. Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) http://cardiff.academia.edu/PaulBowman
Jasper Sharp (Film Curator/ Zipangu Film Festival creator) http://jaspersharp.com/blog/
Due to the success of last years we are pleased to announce the return of the two-day international symposium on East Asian Cinema and Film Festival (sponsored by Third Window Films and Nissan Motors) organised by Spencer Murphy (Coventry University), and Colette Balmain (Coventry University) and funded by Coventry University.
The films that have emerged from East Asia in the past decade have invigorated international cinema with their originality and vitality, capturing the attention of academics and audiences alike. East Winds Symposium aims to capture this vitality through a combination of formal and informal talks, film screenings at Coventry University in partnership with Third Window Films and sponsored by Nissan Motors, Q&A sessions with key directors, workshops and themed events.
· We seek papers that represent the diversity of East Asian Cinema and engage with the films from a variety of perspectives – academic, fan based, journalism, festival management, student, distribution companies and publishing – across disciplines and countries.
· As this symposium emerges from the work done by CUEAFS (Coventry University East Asian Film Society), one of the foremost aims of the symposium is to challenge academic boundaries and conventions in relation to the production and dissemination of knowledge. As such, we actively welcome the submission of abstracts of work-in-progress, pre-formed panels, workshops or proposed discussion sessions by students, both undergraduate and postgraduate, in addition to academics, journalists, and people involved in the consumption, promotion and distribution of East Asian Cinema.
· The purpose of the symposium and film festival is to develop a network of people involved with the production, distribution, reception and analysis of East Asian cinema. It is anticipated that the symposium will reflect the excitement and interest generated by the emergence of East Asian cinema onto the global screen, while also offering new insights into local productions and co-productions which have been overlooked by scholars and audiences in the West.
The main criteria are that the proposals should be related to one of the four cinematic territories (China, Hong Kong, Japan or South Korea). Pre-formed panels, workshops, presentation of work-in-progress, and papers are sought. Pre-formed panels of 3 people are advisable. Suggested areas are below, but we welcome proposals on other areas of interest which fulfil the main purpose of the symposium.
East-West Crossovers
· Remaking East Asian cinema (J-Horror and beyond)
· Hollywood Remakes in East Asian cinema
· East Asian presence in Transnational cinemas
· The Global Wuxia pian film (Crouching Tiger, Hero, Red Cliff etc)
· East Asian Directors in Hollywood
· Asian Film Stars in Hollywood- Problematic Representations
· South Korean Revenge Films
· History of East-West co-productions
· Genre Definitions- (Japan + Korea + Hong Kong = J-Horror)
· The legacy of Tartan Asia Extreme
· Film adaptations of novels/manga/anime
Traditions and Directions
· Diasporic texts/Diasporic directors
· The auteur and the canon
· Western co-productions and Hollywood Remakes/East Asian co-productions and remakes of Hollywood films
· Academic approaches/theories of East Asian Cinema including questions of the transnational and the global
· Orientalism/Occidentalism/Self-Orientalism
· National Cinema and nationalism
· Institution and Industry
· Relationship between traditional arts and cinema as a mechanism of local identification and signification
Representations of Self and Other
· Class, society and the representation of disenfranchisement
· Ethnicity, empowerment and disempowerment
· Gender and sexual politics
· Sexuality beyond the heterosexual paradigm
· Consumerism and new sexual identities
· Monstrous becomings between East and West: zombies/ghosts/cyborgs/vampires
· Social issues on screen
· Trauma and national identity
Genre and Beyond
· Traditional genres
· Blockbusters and Franchises
· K-horror/J-horror and A-horror
· Feminist cinema/Films directed by women
· Independent cinema/Experimental cinema
· Queer cinema
· Pink/Adult cinema
· Anime – adult/family
· Youth films
· War cinema
· Romance, comedy and melodrama
· Star as genre
· Hybrid/diffused genres
· Technology and East Asian Cinema
Audiences and Reception
· Fancultures
· Translation – subtitling and/or dubbing
· Screen quotas and exhibition
· Film Criticism/Journalism/Websites
· Cosplay and performance
· Different modes of spectatorship (home/cinema/festival)
Promotion, Distribution and Marketing
The symposium will be held at Coventry University from March 2nd- 4th 2012.
Please send a 300 word abstract for a 20 minute paper to
Pre-formed panels and workshops will be allocated no more than 60 minutes. General inquiries should be sent to Colette Balmain ().
Deadline for proposals: 2nd January 2012
