CFP: 8th Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference: “Codes, Kitsch, Camp: Genre in/and Southeast Asian Cinemas”

From: Jasmine Nadua Trice [[email protected]]

CALL FOR PAPERS

8th Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference:

“Codes, Kitsch, Camp: Genre in/and Southeast Asian Cinemas”

July 7 – 10, 2014, Thai Film Archive, Salaya, Thailand.

Issues of genre have had long-term and continuing importance for the film
studies field, but the concept has received little serious critical
attention in the specific context of Southeast Asian film.  The 8th
Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas conference will therefore be
interested in interrogating in the broadest terms the relevance and
usefulness of the concept for the analysis of Southeast Asian cinema.  We
seek proposals both for papers that address concepts of genre, in a
Southeast Asian context, from a theoretical perspective and for studies of
specific Southeast Asian genre trends with industrial and/or textual
emphases.  Some possible topics for papers along these lines include the
following (though the list is by no means intended as exhaustive):

-Relevance of “genre” for the Southeast Asian context (e.g., are
theorizations of genre based upon Hollywood examples still viable, or do
they need to be reworked or jettisoned altogether?)

-Redefining the concept of genre for a Southeast Asian context

-Transnational generic exchange or flow

-Reworking of global (Hollywood, Bollywood, the kungfu comedy, etc.) genres
in Southeast Asia

-Genre evolution

-Genre mixing

-Economics of genre in Southeast Asia (e.g., how genre bears upon
production, distribution, exhibition)

-Case studies of specific genres, genre trends, genre films in Southeast
Asia

-Genres specific to Southeast Asia

-Genre and nation

-Genre and issues of identity (gender, class, ethnicity)

-National or regional genre aesthetics

-Genre and censorship

We also welcome submissions for the open call. Please check our website
archives and conference programs for past paper topics as we are less
likely to accept topics that have been covered before:
http://seaconference.wordpress.com/

Abstract Submission Deadline: September 30, 2013

Please send an abstract (max. 300 words) and short bio (max. 100 words) to:
Sophia Siddique Harvey ([email protected]), Khoo Gaik Cheng (
[email protected]) and Katinka Van Heeren ([email protected]). We
are currently attempting to get funding for travel subsidies and
accommodations but cannot offer any as of yet.

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