Fwd: CFP: Chinese Cinemas in and outside China, October 2013

From: Felicia Chan <[email protected]>

Call for Papers
Chinese Cinemas in and outside China
Cornerhouse, Manchester
11-13 October 2013

Following two highly successful symposia, the Chinese Film Forum UK, a
research network supported by the AHRC, is hosting an international
conference on Chinese cinemas in and outside of China.

Plenary speakers:
Professor Rey Chow, Duke University
Dr Song Hwee Lim, University of Exeter

With the rapid development of the film industry within the People’s
Republic of China since the 1990s a more varied conception of Chinese
cinemas has begun to proliferate internationally. While the mainland’s
large markets are coveted by Hollywood, its own production, distribution
and exhibition capacities have expanded exponentially in the past 20 years,
producing box-office success both domestically and abroad. This explosion
has in turn also has led to a re-thinking of a number of old orthodoxies
concerning Chinese cinemas. This conference intends to make an intervention
in these debates by addressing a number of issues. For example, what is the
impact of this rapid expansion on filmmaking both within and outside China?
Where do films produced outside China fit into notions of Chinese
filmmaking? Are new forms of independent films appearing? What significance
do patterns of both internal and external distribution and exhibition have
on conceptions of Chinese cinemas? What is the impact on the filmmaking of
the Chinese diaspora?

With these issues in mind, proposals are invited on, but not restricted to,
the following:

-        (Re)Negotiating definitions of Chinese cinema
-        Changing production contexts of Chinese cinemas
-        National and global constructions of Chinese cinemas
-        Critical Approaches to Chinese cinemas
-        The impact of mainland Chinese production on the film industries
of Taiwan and Hong Kong
-        Regional co-productions
-        International co-productions
-        Distribution and exhibition of Chinese cinemas
-        Censorship
-        Shifting conceptions and definitions of independent cinema
-        Vernacular Chinese languages and cinema
-        Chinese cinemas outside of China, including South-east Asia, North
America and Europe
-        ‘Chinese’ filmmakers working on non-Chinese-language films
-        Transnational Chinese film stardom


150-200 word proposals for a 20-minute paper presentation and a short
biography, or queries, should be sent by 31st May 2013 to
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> (organisers: Dr Felicia
Chan, University of Manchester, and Dr Andy Willis, University of Salford)

Chinese Film Forum UK was founded to support film from across the Chinese
diaspora and is a joint venture between University of Manchester,
University of Salford, and Manchester Metropolitan University, the
Confucius Institute, Chinese Arts Centre, and Cornerhouse. Further
information can be found at: http://www.cffuk.org<http://www.cffuk.org/>

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Dr Felicia Chan
Lecturer in Screen Studies
Drama
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Mailing address:
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL

Phone: +44 (0)161 275 8963
Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

Profie:  http://manchester.academia.edu/FeliciaChan
Twitter: fish_72
Chinese Film Forum UK: http://www.cffuk.org<http://www.cffuk.org/>

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