[ecrea] CFP: Hong Kong and Bombay Cinemas Reader

HONG KONG AND BOMBAY CINEMAS: A READER

Call for Papers---A Reader on Hong Kong and Bombay Cinemas

The existing corpus of literature surrounding Asian cinema has addressed 
the discourses of globalization, nationalism, orientalism, 
post-colonialism, and the dichotomies between global, national, and 
regional cinemas. Recently what has become evident though is the 
recognition of Hong Kong Cinema as a major player outside Asia and its 
deepening relationship with Hollywood, and the emergence of Bombay 
Cinema (or Bollywood to use the moniker) as a new cultural and market 
force that is still trying to reposition itself in the pantheon of 
global cinema.

What is missing in the field is a reader that explores the Hong Kong and 
Bombay cinemas as two paradigmatic urban-centered cinemas through an 
inter-Asian lens and discusses their commonalities and differences along 
the circuits of the sacred and profane; unique genres; histories and 
politics; culture, emotion and affect; aesthetics; and socio-linguistics.

We are compiling a reader on contemporary Hong Kong and Bollywood, 
documenting the emergence of the 'New' even as the 'Old' informs it. We 
encourage scholarly contributions from multidisciplinary perspectives. 
Some possible topics include but are not limited to:

1. Cinematic vocabularies in constructing the aesthetics, politics, 
society, and economy of Hong Kong and Bombay;

2. Postcolonial Hong Kong and Bombay cinemas as allegories of national 
histories and local memories, and as visual transmitters of 
state-building and communal empowerment;

3. Dharma, Karma, and/ Guanxi /as the juxtaposition of divine and 
secular justice, and the reconstruction of Hindu mythology and Confucian 
ritualism;

4. Cinematic representations of state and civil society, the underworld 
and the informal economy, vigilantism and terrorism;

5. Cinematic exploration of the structures of feeling such as 
patriotism, class consciousness, urbanism, alienation, assimilation, 
memory, nostalgia;

6. Film festivals in globalizing mainstream and independent cinemas from 
Hong Kong and Bombay;

7. Cinematic appropriation, elaboration, inspiration, and plagiarism in 
the cultural flows between Hollywood, Hong Kong, and Bollywood;

8. Critical pedagogies involved in using Hong Kong and Bollywood films 
in classrooms and the issue of translatability.

Articles should be around 6,000-7,000 words in length with references. 
Please send abstracts or enquiries to Drs. Satish Kolluri 
((skolluri /at/ pace.edu) <mailto:(skolluri /at/ pace.edu)>) and Joseph Tse-Hei Lee 
((jlee /at/ pace.edu) <mailto:(jlee /at/ pace.edu)>) at Pace University in New York, 
U.S. The deadline for abstract submission is March 15, 2012 and 
contributors are expected to submit full papers by September 1, 2012.