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New angles on Chinese film history
New Angles on Chinese Film History
International Conference, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
August 13-15, 2015
Open to the public; no registration required.
For more information:
http://ias.umn.edu/2015/08/13/chinese-film/
 
Thursday, August 13
Founder’s Room, Northrop
5:15 Welcoming remarks: Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota
5:30 Roundtable discussion: The State and Stakes of Chinese Cinemas Studies
Sponsored by the Journal of Chinese Cinemas
Chris Berry, King’s College London
Yingjin Zhang, UC-San Diego
Zhang Zhen, New York University
Xinyu Dong, University of Chicago
Moderator: Song Hwee Lim, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Friday, August 14
Crosby Seminar Room, Northrop
9:30-10:15 Plenary talk : Chris Berry
What (not) to Wear during a Cultural Revolution: Film, Fashion, and Agency in China
(co-authored with Shujuan Zhang, University of Minnesota)
10:15-12:45 Panel 1: China and the Global Cinematic Idiom
Chair: Xin Yang, Macalester College
Wild Roses and Pink Tears: The Afterlife of Lady of the Camellias in Postwar Hong Kong Cinema
Jean Ma, Stanford University
Big Face: The Screen Kiss in Shanghai Cinema of the 1930s
Jessica Ka Yee Chan, University of Richmond
Redrawing the Formation of Movie Star Culture in Shanghai, 1930-1937
Chen Gang, Chinese Agricultural University
Animated History, Plasmatic Reality: China's Folktale Animation Films from 1941 to 1965
Li Guo, Utah State University
Discussant: Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota
2:00-4:30 Panel 2: Institutional History and Film Industry Transformations
Chair: Julian Ward, University of Edinburgh
Provincializing Chinese Cinema: Shanghai Films at the Zhenjiang Mass Education Center
Hongwei Thorn Chen, University of Minnesota
Taiwan's Meteroric Rise as a Film Festival Powerhouse: A Revised Institutional History
James Udden, Gettysburg College
French Producers and the Support of Chinese Art Cinema
Cécile Lagesse, Yale University
Unstable Pixels: Digital Plasmaticness and Semiotic Pluralism in Chinese Independent Animation
Jinying Li, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Yingjin Zhang, UC-San Diego
5:00 Keynote talk: Zhang Zhen
>From Sidewalk Xianchang to Spectral Realism: Yang Lina’s Beijing and Beyond
Saturday, August 15
1210 Heller Hall
9:00-10:30 Panel 3: Rethinking Film and Media Historiography through Genre
Chair: Christine Marran, University of Minnesota
Battle over Comedy: Rereading the Hard Film vs. Soft Film Debate in Shanghai Cinema
Xinyu Dong, University of Chicago
A Cinema of Nonbelonging: Rethinking Hong Kong Mandarin Film Musicals of the 1950s
Tsai Po-Chen, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Space, Scene, and Body Movements: The Construction of the Jianghu Secondary World in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the Shaw Brothers, 1960s-1970s
Liu Shengmei, Beijing University
10:30-10:45 Break
The Secret War: Gender, Code, Media Technology—Chinese Espionage Films during the Second World War
Weihong Bao, UC-Berkeley
Horror, Historiography and the Aesthetic of the Liminal
Xiao Liu, McGill University
Discussant: Chris Berry, Kings College London
1:30-3:30 Panel 4: Cinema as Historical Conjuncture
Chair: Suvadip Sinha, University of Minnesota
Dire Straits: Shifting Boundaries of “Home” in the Cinematic Representation of 1949
Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University
Film Historiography through the Self-reflexive Screen – When a Star is Reborn
Yiman Wang, UC-Santa Cruz
Negotiating the Ideal Womanhood: Ideological Interventions into the Legend of Mulan in Confucian and Republican China
Zhuoyi Wang, Hamilton College
Discussant: Yomi Braester, University of Washington
3:45-5:45 Panel 5: Beyond Mandarin: Dialect and Diasporic Cinemas
Chair: Baryon Tensor Posadas, University of Minnesota
Cantonese Cinema: Industrial Crisis and Reconstruction, 1930-1957
Victor Fan, King’s College London
Singaporean Film as History of the Sinophone: Glen Goei's Forever Fever and The Blue Mansion
Carolyn Fitzgerald, Auburn University
Configuring Translocalism in Taiwanese-dialect Cinema
Wang Chun-chi, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
Discussant: Song Hwee Lim, Chinese University of Hong Kong
by denton.2 at osu.edu on August 8, 2015
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