MCLC: Imagining Chinese Cinemas

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Lim, Song <S.H.Lim at exeter.ac.uk>
Subject: Imagining Chinese Cinemas
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Imagining Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century

9th ­ 10th July 2012 (Monday-Tuesday)
University of Exeter, UK

Funded by a Leverhulme Trust International Network grant, the research
project 'Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption,
Imagination' would like to invite academics and postgraduate students to a
launch event and one day conference to be held at the University of Exeter
from 9th to 10th July, 2012.

The project, led by Dr Song Hwee Lim
<http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/lim/> (University of
Exeter), seeks to examine the role of art and culture (in particular,
film) as a form of 'soft power' capable of shaping both the region¹s
self-image and others¹ perception of Chinese culture, which has varying
impacts on local, national, regional and global levels. It will pay
particular attention to aspects of production, consumption and imagination
that have facilitated the transnational travel of Chinese films.

The network will be officially launched at 2 pm on Monday 9th July at the
XFI Building at the Streatham Campus. We are delighted to announce that
the Keynote Speaker for the launch is Professor Rey Chow (Duke
University), whose talk is entitled OChina as Documentary in the Age of
Hypermediality: Some Basic Questions¹.

A one-day conference on the 10th July will focus on the role of
imagination in the production and consumption of Chinese cinemas in the
21st century. It will feature 12 research papers, and will run from 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Additionally, a one-day workshop will be held on the 11th July
for postgraduates working on Chinese cinemas.

Please register online at the conference webpage
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/research/conferences/chinesecinemas/ by
15th June (Friday) if you intend to come to the events on either or both
days. There is no registration fee, but please indicate if you would like
to attend the conference dinner to be held on 9th July. We are unable to
provide any funding for travel or accommodation.

For more information on the Network, visit our web page:
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/film/research/networks/chinesecinemas/
 

Song Hwee LIM (Dr.)
Senior Lecturer in Film Studies
College of Humanities
University of Exeter
Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive
Exeter EX4 4QH
United Kingdom

Principal Investigator, Leverhulme International Networks Project on
"Chinese Cinemas in the 21st Century: Production, Consumption, Imagination"
http://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/film/research/networks/chinesecinemas/

Editor, Journal of Chinese Cinemas
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=137/

Co-editor, The Chinese Cinema Book
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=379527