[ecrea] CFP Chinese Cinemas in and outside China

*Call for Papers
Chinese Cinemas in and outside China
Cornerhouse, Manchester
11-13 October 2013*

Following two highly successful symposia, the Chinese Film Forum UK, a 
research network supported by the AHRC, is hosting an international 
conference on Chinese cinemas in and outside of China.

*Plenary speakers:
Professor Rey Chow, Duke University (in collaboration with CIDRAL 
<http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cidra/>, University of Manchester)
Dr Song Hwee Lim, University of Exeter*

With the rapid development of the film industry within the People’s 
Republic of China since the 1990s a more varied conception of Chinese 
cinemas has begun to proliferate internationally. While the mainland’s 
large markets are coveted by Hollywood, its own production, distribution 
and exhibition capacities have expanded exponentially in the past 20 
years, producing box-office success both domestically and abroad. This 
explosion has in turn also has led to a re-thinking of a number of old 
orthodoxies concerning Chinese cinemas. This conference intends to make 
an intervention in these debates by addressing a number of issues. For 
example, what is the impact of this rapid expansion on filmmaking both 
within and outside China? Where do films produced outside China fit into 
notions of Chinese filmmaking? Are new forms of independent films 
appearing? What significance do patterns of both internal and external 
distribution and exhibition have on conceptions of Chinese cinemas? What 
is the impact on the filmmaking of the Chinese diaspora?

With these issues in mind, proposals are invited on, but not restricted 
to, the following:

-        (Re)Negotiating definitions of Chinese cinema
-        Changing production contexts of Chinese cinemas
-        National and global constructions of Chinese cinemas
-        Critical Approaches to Chinese cinemas
-        The impact of mainland Chinese production on the film 
industries of Taiwan and Hong Kong
-        Regional co-productions
-        International co-productions
-        Distribution and exhibition of Chinese cinemas
-        Censorship
-        Shifting conceptions and definitions of independent cinema
-        Vernacular Chinese languages and cinema
-        Chinese cinemas outside of China, including South-east Asia, 
North America and Europe
-        ‘Chinese’ filmmakers working on non-Chinese-language films
-        Transnational Chinese film stardom


150-200 word proposals for a *20-minute paper presentation* and* a short 
biography*, or queries, should be sent by *_31st May 2013_* to 
(cffuk.mcr /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(cffuk.mcr /at/ gmail.com)> (organisers: Dr Felicia 
Chan, University of Manchester, and Dr Andy Willis, University of Salford)

Chinese Film Forum UK was founded to support film from across the 
Chinese diaspora and is a joint venture between University of 
Manchester, University of Salford, and Manchester Metropolitan 
University, the Confucius Institute, Chinese Arts Centre, 
and Cornerhouse. Further information can be found at: 
http://www.cffuk.org <http://www.cffuk.org/>



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Dr Felicia Chan
Lecturer in Screen Studies
Drama
School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

Mailing address:
Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL

Phone: +44 (0)161 275 8963
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