[ecrea] CFP: Time, Space, and the Visceral in Southeast Asian Cinema, 9th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference

CFP: Time, Space, and the Visceral in Southeast Asian Cinema

9th Biennial Association for Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC)

July 20th-22nd, 2016, University of Nottingham, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


Cinema’s representation and manipulation of space, time, and
spatiotemporal-perception have been critical to the theorization and
practice of the medium since its origins. Accounting for cinema as a
text, an industrial practice, a form of leisure, and a mode of
visuality, such critical approaches have considered the advent and
spread of mass communications technologies as both symptoms and
catalysts of drastic changes in space-time perception and
representation, with particularly dramatic, if often ‘belated,’ effects
occurring outside of the West.


In the context of Southeast Asia, how might contemporary readings of
local films, analyses of common exhibition practices like mobile
cinemas, or investigations of the relationship between movies and other
longstanding art forms engage, and possibly challenge, these influential
theorizations? Furthermore, how have local and embodied understandings
of spatiality and temporality, and ways of representing or manipulating
space and time – whether “traditional” or otherwise – influenced and
shaped the texture, formal qualities, or narrative styles of films and
cinemas in Southeast Asia? How might practices and technologies of
production, distribution, and reception contribute to the creation of
new spatiotemporal orders?


Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to:


Sites of cinema exhibition and reception.

Spatial-temporal distribution patterns, audiences, and publics.

Spaces of production, production cultures, labor.

Scales of media industrial practice (global, regional, national, local).

Representations of intra- and transnational migration, urbanization, the
rural.

Embodiment and spectatorship.

The importance of sound in reception and the production of affect.

Colonial-imperial spaces and film.

Memory, nostalgia, and space.

Screen media, geography, and mapping.

Tourism, travel, and film.

Space, spectatorship, and filmic visuality.

New media, space, and time.


ASEACC welcomes presentations related to the conference theme or to
Southeast Asian cinemas more broadly. Past conferences have included
site visits, screenings, and presentations from academics, critics,
filmmakers, archivists, and others interested in Southeast Asian screen
media.


Please check our website archives and conference programs for past paper
topics as we are less likely to accept topics that have been covered
before: http://seaconference.wordpress.com/


Abstract Submission Deadline: November 30, 2015. Please send an abstract
(max. 300 words) and short bio (max. 100 words) to: Katinka Van Heeren
((cvanheeren /at/ hotmail.com) <mailto:(cvanheeren /at/ hotmail.com)>), Sudarat
Mustikawong ((smusikawong /at/ yahoo.com) <mailto:(smusikawong /at/ yahoo.com)>), and
Jasmine Nadua Trice ((jnt /at/ ucla.edu) <mailto:(jnt /at/ ucla.edu)>).
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