[ecrea] CFP reminder: Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows

*CFP– edited collection *

*Korean Film and Festivals: Global TransculturalFlows***

Film festivals for over seventy years have been the driving force behind 
the global circulation of cinema. Film festivals are also a place where 
cultures are translated and transported into other cultures. Work on 
film festivals is a burgeoningfield of interest in Film Studies. Much 
cutting edge work is currently being published on film festivals in 
relation to world cinemas, yet the relationship between Korean cinema 
and film festivals so far has been relatively neglected.

Until recently, the work on this subject has mainly focused on European 
and North American Film Festivals, with presumptions and expectations 
about different global film cultures being shaped there.Asiais slowly 
becoming more prominent in the international festival world, and so it 
will be crucial to investigate how film festivals inKoreaare engaging in 
this new global prominence of film festivals inAsia, and how this in 
turn is transforming what an international film festival is.

We hope the following volume will expand upon and enlarge thecurrent 
work that has already been done on film festivals in Korea. There are 
also numerous small filmfestivals that are held in Korea, which would be 
beneficial to research to reveal the role they play in Korean 
film culture, and compare their structure and operations to the 
largerKorean filmfestivals.

Korean cinema has been making large waves in international 
film festivals for over a decade now, not to mention having had a long 
history at European film festivals that began in the 1960s. However 
there has not yet been a systematic study on the ideas and problems 
related tocuratingKorean films at international film festivals.

Along with this focus on the growing role of film festivals in relation 
to Korean cinema and lack of research on film festivals within Korea, 
this edited volume "KoreanFilm Festivals: GlobalTransculturalFlows" aims 
to address the following blind spots:

-What constitutes the term ‘world cinema,’ and what issues are at stake 
when Korean cinema enters foreign lands with (different) values attached 
to it?

-How are national narratives created around Korean cinema at 
international film festivals? Although Korean cinema has a long history 
of screenings at international film festivals, why is it that only in 
the past decade has Korean cinema started to win major festival prizes 
and gain a firm place within the rubric of ‘world cinema’?

-If the film festival is the place that aims to exhibit certain kinds of 
films, what place does Korean cinema have within the exhibition network, 
and what type of cinema and images are being sought from Korea by 
international festival curators?

-How is Korean cinema’s global success related to the film industry side 
of film festivals, where business deals are made for the worldwide 
distribution of Koreancinema?

-How can issues of cultural translation be analyzed when looking at what 
exactly Korean cinema represents to international audiences, and what 
those audiences desire from it?

-If we compare how Korean cinema iscuratedwithin film festivals 
inKoreaitself and at international film festivals, what does this reveal 
about thetransculturalflows that emanate fromKoreato the rest of the world?

-How is Korean culture translated through cinema via the 
festival distribution network?

-On the other side of the scale, how do film festivals 
withinKoreaoperate and fit into the international festival world?

The above questions will be explored in this edited volume. Other papers 
related to Korean cinema at international film festivals or Korean 
film festivals but with different angles will also be considered.


*      Call for Papers *

Proposal should include an abstract of 300 words and the name, 
institutional affiliation, a 100 word biography of the author, and the 
title of the paper.

Please submit the abstract by*Jan 10th, 2018* to 
Dr.HyunseonLee:(hs53 /at/ soas.ac.uk) <mailto:(hs53 /at/ soas.ac.uk)>.

The deadline for full chapter submission isthe *1 September****2018*. 
The length of article should be 6000 -8000 words including footnotes and 
bibliography.


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