[ecrea] Call for Proposals: International Conference on Asian Culture Industries, Bangalore

>Call for Papers
>
>International Conference on Asian Culture Industries:
>
>A Comparative Study of India, Japan and South Korea
>
>21st December 2010  22nd December 2010, Bangalore
>
>
>
>The Culture: Industries and Diversity in Asia 
>(CIDASIA) research programme of CSCS invites 
>proposals for papers at the International 
>Conference on Asian Culture Industries to be 
>held in Bangalore on 21st and 22nd December 
>2010. The conference is supported by Japan Foundation, New Delhi.
>
>
>
>We invite scholars working on cinema, 
>television, pop music, animation, gaming, in 
>Asia in general and India, Japan and South Korea 
>in particular to send in their proposals. We 
>also welcome proposals from researchers working 
>on the recent history of entertainment 
>industries and government policy towards in these industries.
>
>
>
>The primary intention of the conference is to 
>explore the possibility of comparative studies 
>of entertainment industries in Asia. We focus on 
>India, Japan and South Korea as a convenient 
>starting point. The conference would like to 
>examine the two way movement of cultural 
>commodities in and out of these countries. 
>Papers on the reception of cultural forms from 
>these countries in other Asian locations too are 
>welcome. We are not interested in papers devoted 
>to detailed analyses of specific cultural texts.
>
>
>
>The culture industries of the countries under 
>consideration have been largely inward looking 
>for much of the post-colonial and post-imperial 
>period. In the second half of the twentieth 
>century they developed on the strength/weakness 
>of their domestic markets, unlike Hong Kong 
>which has a long and unbroken history of 
>producing films for export. The conference will 
>focus on the post-1990 period when for different 
>reasons including underground circulation of 
>cultural commodities in international markets, 
>systematic efforts began to be made in these 
>countries to export entertainment.
>
>
>
>The export of entertainment by Asian countries 
>is coeval with the increasing economic 
>importance of cultural production and 
>consumption in todays world. In India, for 
>example, government agencies have estimated that 
>cultural and creative industries contribute up 
>to 34% of the GDP and employ 30% of the 
>workforce. The circulation of cultural 
>commodities in contexts other than those of 
>their production draws attention to the hitherto 
>under-researched area, namely the increased 
>interface between culture and economics. In a 
>global context where cultural production and 
>consumption are engines of the economy, the 
>manner in which cultural commodities flow, the 
>resistances they encounter, the ways in which 
>they are localized, transformed, and engender 
>new cultural practices and have social and 
>economic consequence that are completely 
>unanticipated by the production centre are issues the conference will address.
>
>
>
>We would like to examine questions related to 
>cultural markets and cultural economy. These include but are not limited to:
>
>
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>a) Cultural impenetrability. Why do certain 
>markets, especially Asian markets, prove to be 
>impenetrable to commodities produced elsewhere? 
>What role does the industrial and business 
>context of the host market play in 
>determining/limiting the flow of imported cultural commodities?
>
>
>
>b) Localization. The acceptance of cultural 
>objects in new markets is a direct consequence 
>of localization, or the mediation of the object 
>by distribution and exhibition sectors of the 
>host country. How are cultural imports localized 
>in the contexts examined? Of particular interest 
>is the role played by film and television 
>industries in localizing imports through 
>context-specific publicity campaigns, dubbing, etc.
>
>
>
>c) Creation of new subcultures. What new 
>sub-cultures are formed in host countries and 
>what is their similarity/difference with their 
>counterparts in the production centre? These 
>subcultures are at times premised on existing 
>cultural stereotypes of the production centre 
>and at other times they seriously challenge 
>stereotypes (as in the case of Korean drama in 
>Japan, which has contributed to the changed perception of Korea in Japan).
>
>
>
>d) Invisible and underground markets and Soft 
>Power. The relative lack of control over 
>distribution and exhibition and the rampant 
>circulation of pirated media content in Asia 
>create a situation in which cultural consumption 
>is actively facilitated by unauthorized and 
>underground markets. Typically, Japanese, Korean 
>and Indian cultural commodities arrive in an 
>authorized, legal market long after illegal 
>channels introduced them there. How do 
>entertainment industries grapple with complex 
>questions posed by unauthorized circulation of 
>their productions? Do current discussions of 
>soft power adequately account for the actual 
>extent of the circulation and influence of imported forms?
>
>
>
>e) Dispersal across media formats. Although 
>dispersal of media content across a range of 
>technologies and formats is not confined to 
>Asia, we would like to draw attention to the 
>ways in which digital technology has mediated 
>the circulation of Asian cultural forms. The 
>conference would like to examine the new 
>opportunities and challenges of post-celluloid 
>technologies for entertainment industries of the region.
>
>
>
>Tentatively, the conference will be organized 
>around the following broad areas:
>
>
>    * Asian Culture Industries: Conceptual and theoretical issues;
>    * Celluloid and post-Celluloid media forms in Asia
>    * Imported entertainment: Case studies of India, Japan and Korea
>    * Export of Culture: focus on comparative 
> studies of more than one context of reception.
>
>
>
>Paper abstracts (250 words) should be submitted 
>to S.V.Srinivas at 
><mailto:(theasianpopular /at/ cscs.res.in)>(cidasia /at/ cscs.res.in). 
>Abstracts may be in Word or RTF formats, 
>following this order: author(s), affiliation, 
>email address, title of abstract, body of 
>abstract. Abstracts should be submitted no later 
>than 30 August, 2010. If an abstract is accepted 
>for the conference, a full draft paper should be 
>submitted by November 10, 2010. The maximum 
>duration of individual presentations within each 
>panel will be 25 minutes. All papers should be 
>unpublished because they will be published on 
>the conference website and/or in an edited conference volume.
>
>Further announcements about registration, 
>funding and venue related details will be made 
>available in due course. Please contact S.V. 
>Srinivas at 
><mailto:(srinivas /at/ cscs.res.in)>(srinivas /at/ cscs.res.in) 
>  or 
><mailto:(theasianpopular /at/ cscs.res.in)>(cidasia /at/ cscs.res.in) 
>for additional information.
>
>
>
>Financial and other support:
>
>
>    * Complete or partial air travel 
> reimbursement will be provided for a limited 
> number of participants traveling from within 
> Asia. Preference will be given to younger applicants.
>    * All participants will be provided basic, 
> non-smoking accommodation free of cost for a 
> maximum of three nights. Meals will be provided during the conference days.
>    * Indian visa costs and taxi fares will not 
> be covered by the organizers.
>
>
>
>If you wish to apply for a travel reimbursement, 
>indicate in a separate paragraph below your 
>abstract the approximate cost of your air ticket 
>and the extent of support you require. As of now 
>we only have funding to reimburse a limited 
>number of fares for participants travelling from 
>locations in Asia and affiliated to institutions 
>in Asian countries. We are in the process of 
>seeking additional funds but at this stage we 
>cannot commit ourselves to supporting travel 
>costs of participants from non-Asian locations.
>
>
>--
>S.V. Srinivas
>Senior Fellow & Coordinator
>CIDASIA Research Programme
>Centre for the Study of Culture and Society
>No. 827, 29th Main Road
>Poornaprajna HBCS Layout
>Uttarahalli, BANGALORE - 560 061
>
>Phone: 91-80-2642 3266/ 67 /68
>Fax: 91-80-2642 3002
>

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