[ecrea] cfp. Asian Pop Culture fandom in Europe

> Call for papers
>
> Panel proposal for Crossroad 2010, 17-21 June, Hong Kong
>
> "Asian Pop Culture Fandom in Europe"
>
> Traditionally, Asian pop culture's trans national consumption has 
> been studied in terms of strategies of global cultural industry, 
> identity construction of diasporas and migrant audiences, and 
> regionalized dynamics of media consumption (Japan mania, Korean 
> Flow). Meanwhile, the recent and rapidly growing popularity of Asian 
> pop culture in Europe put forward a new set of questions. The huge 
> popularity of Manga (especially in France) and the fandom of Asian 
> Pop music and TV drama among European consumers make incomplete the 
> existing thesis. For example, the growing popularity of Asian drama, 
> and in a degree that of Asian Pop music, is a pure web2 phenomenon 
> that any cultural industry theory can handle. Serial culture that 
> the Manga and the Drama consumption impose is quite different from 
> that of Western seriality. It therefore provides an intense 
> intercultural interface of global era. It also implicates a new 
> gender, generation, and race relationship formation. Between 
> fascination, addiction, and aesthetic judgement, European fans of 
> Asian Pop Culture are blurring the frontiers between legitimate, 
> dominating, and ostensible Western culture and "illegitimate" 
> (violent, infantile, emotional, and even free), docile and invisible 
> Asian popular culture. They are fans of Asian Film d'Auteur as well 
> as that of popular TV drama and Pop idols, paracinemaic critics at 
> the same time camp viewers of Asian stars. This cultural eclectism 
> can provide an interesting field of Reception and Fan studies.
>
> This panel aims above all to identify clearly the cultural dynamics 
> of emerging Asian pop culture fandom in Europe and hope to address 
> the theoretical stakes as gender and race relationship in global culture.
>
> The communication proposal (150 word maximum and a short biography 
> of the author) is to be sent to : 
> <mailto:(skhong /at/ wanadoo.fr)>(skhong /at/ wanadoo.fr), before the 31st 
> January. (The deadline of panel submission is the 14th February)
>
> Please feel free to contact me 
> (<mailto:(skhong /at/ wanadoo.fr)>(skhong /at/ wanadoo.fr)) for any request on the 
> panel programme, and  you can find the pratical information on the 
> conference web site : www.crossroad2010.org
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Sek-Kyeong HONG-MERCIER
> Associate Professor, University of Bordeax, Laboratory MICA

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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