[Commlist] Action Cinema Now conference

We are delighted to say that the Action Cinema Now conference is 
now open for registrations. The conference runs from Thursday 11 April 
to Saturday 13 April 2019 inclusive.


The conference website is now live, and includes more information on our 
keynotes and panels, and a draft conference schedule: 
https://actioncinemanow.wordpress.com/

<https://actioncinemanow.wordpress.com/>

Early bird registration closes on 1 March 2019. You can register at the 
following link: 
https://www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-social-science/film-theatre-television/action-cinema-now


If you want to attend the conference dinner you need to purchase your 
place as part of the online registration process. You also need to 
confirm your menu choices by clicking on this link: 
https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=xDv6T_zswEiQgPXkP_kOX-iKQI0y3fdGnLJ5IkTyfodUMVY1NjVWNDdEVVRDREFRM0xXUExLUEtCTS4u. 



Further details about the conference's focus are provided below:


At a moment when the relationship between popular culture, politics and 
society is again being sharply debated, action cinema as a dominant form 
of mass cultural production demands to be re-examined, as does the 
critical writing that has documented that form. Action films pose 
pressing questions about the extent to which a popular form can develop 
appropriate responses to the ethical dimensions of representation and 
marginalisation, particularly in a wider context of global 
multi-platform circulation. At the same time, they remain key sites of 
technological and aesthetic innovation and market negotiation shaped by 
complex local and global economic and cultural drivers.

This conference brings together scholars from a range of disciplines in 
a cross-continental, intercultural, intermedial and interdisciplinary 
examination of this wide-ranging form. We seek to analyse action cinema 
in its heterogeneity, and in particular to skew away from traditional 
foci of action scholarship, such as the white cis-gendered male hero. In 
doing so, the conference will address questions of regional exchange, 
aesthetics, performance, and industry.

We are delighted to welcome an impressive array of established and 
emerging scholars from the U.S, Canada, Europe, and India as speakers, 
as well as keynotes from Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund (University of 
Tennessee, Knoxville), Professor Mary Beltrán (University of Texas), 
Professor Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong), and Professor Yvonne 
Tasker, University of Leeds).



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