MCLC: Fashioning the East-Asian Screen

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: hongwei bao (renebao at gmail.com)
Subject: Fashioning the East-Asian Screen
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FASHIONING THE EAST-ASIAN SCREEN, 3-4th May 2012, Nottingham Castle, UK.
About Fashioning the East-Asian Screen

It is no coincidence that almost simultaneously in the 1890s the very
first issue of Vogue appears and the birth of cinema takes place. The
invention of modern life involves this parallel between fashion¹s history
and the screen. However, most of the emphasis in this relationship is
celebrated and documented through American and European cinema. While the
relationship between fashion and Western cinemas has already been explored
in a number of important publications there has been scant attention to
similar themes and issues when it comes to non-Western cinemas, for
example, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and so on. This two-day
event seeks to address this gap both in our knowledge about fashion and
the screen and the role that fashion, clothing, style, costume, and design
plays in East-Asian cinemas. We are also interested in how the screen has
influenced fashion cultures in the region. Furthermore, we wish to
consider the concept of the screen and East-Asia in their broadest sense
to include all screens not just cinema but also television to new media
and similarly we intend the concept of East-Asia to be fluid and
transcultural rather than limited and fixed. Our primary aim with this
event is to begin to map an East-Asian context in terns of the multiple
and mutual contacts between fashion and the screen.

Event Details

This event is a collaboration between Nottingham Trent University and
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery running in tandem with the
exhibition of Chinese textiles Living in Silk and will take place on the
3rd and 4th of May 2012. Attendance is free but places are very limited
due to the unique Castle venue and priority will be given to participants
who propose a paper or workshop. There are two confirmed keynote speakers
Dr Pamela Church-Gibson (London College of Fashion) and Dr Tamar
Jeffers-McDonald (University of Kent). The Thursday evening reception in
Nottingham Trent University¹s Bonington Gallery will include a performance
based installation by MA Framework students and Lucia Tong choreography
for Dance4 relating to the theme of the event.

For further information regarding the event themes and call for papers
contact gary.needham at ntu.ac.uk School of Arts & Humanities. For
information regarding the Bonington Gallery, Dance4 and the MA Framework
contact yvonne.trew at ntu.ac.uk School of Art & Design. For more information
about the Nottingham Castle venue and the Living in Silk exhibition
contactdeborah.dean at nottinghamcity.gov.uk, Visual Arts and Exhibitions
Manager, Nottingham Castle.

Call For Papers

We seek 20 minute papers or 40 minute workshop presentations and we would
invite all proposals that consider the connection between fashion and the
screen in the context of East-Asia. We would like to see a spread of
historical periods represented as well as different disciplinary
perspectives and positions. Some suggested topics might include fashion
and costume as an element of mise en scene, film stars, costume design,
studio films, fashion in film magazines and film in fashion magazines,
period films and fashion/costume orientated genres, fashion Orientalism in
Western-Cinemas, the influence of the screen on the broader East-Asian
fashion culture.

Deadline for paper submission is Monday the 9th of April 2012. Please send
abstracts and proposals with a short bio to gary.needham at ntu.ac.uk.