[Commlist] CFP: De-Westernizing Horror Conference, King’s College London. Extended Deadline.

CFP: De-Westernizing Horror Conference, King’s College London

Please note that we have now extended the abstract deadline for this 
event to _Friday 26^th August_.

De-Westernizing Horror: Reframing the Genre Cinemas of Asia

King’s College London

Monday 31^st October – Tuesday 01^st November, 2022

Keynote Speaker: Meheli Sen (Rutgers University)

In 2012, Saër Maty Bâ and Will Higbee published their necessary and 
urgent intervention,/De-Westernizing Film Studies/. The principle aim of 
their collection was to “consider what forms a challenge to the enduring 
vision of film as a medium – and film studies as a discipline – modelled 
on ‘Western’ ideologies, theoretical and historical frameworks, critical 
perspectives as well as institutional and artistic practices, might take 
today” (2012: 1).

This two-day in-person conference at King’s College London takes up the 
call of Bâ and Higbee and applies it to the field of horror film 
studies. By interrogating the dominance of the West within existing 
theorisations of horror cinema, we will ask how a transnational approach 
to the genre within Asia might help us work towards the broader goal of 
de-Westernizing horror film studies.

In this approach, we are building upon existing work on individual 
national traditions of horror in Asia (e.g./Japanese Horror Cinema/[EUP, 
2005],/Hong Kong Horror Cinema/[EUP, 2018],/Indian Horror 
Cinema/[Routledge, 2017]), along with studies that discuss a range of 
national traditions (e.g./Horror to the Extreme/[HKUP, 2009],/Horror 
International/[WSUP, 2005],/Transnational Horror Cinema/[Palgrave, 
2017]) and we aim to bring scholars working on a range of different 
national horror traditions in Asia into dialogue with each other. 
Moreover, we recognise that East Asian horror has dominated much of the 
discourse to date, so this conference also aims to help draw attention 
to previously neglected horror film traditions in Pakistan, Bangladesh, 
India, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Turkey, and 
Egypt, alongside the major East Asian industries in Japan, Korea, and 
Hong Kong.

Topics may include, but are not limited to the following:

  * Theorising Genre Cinema in an Asian context
  * Global/Local dynamics in Asian horror
  * Transnational connections across national traditions
  * Remakes and Adaptations
  * Politics of Race, Gender and Sexuality
  * Ghosts, zombies, witches and monsters
  * Religion, Folklore and Myth
  * Fandom, Circulation and Reception
  * Marginalised and neglected areas of horror

Please submit an abstract of 300 words along with a short biographical 
note to:

(kclfilmconf2022 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(kclfilmconf2022 /at/ gmail.com)>

Conference Organisers: Dr Iain Robert Smith and Dr Zubair Shafiq (King’s 
College London).

This conference is a collaborative event between King’s College London 
and The Islamia University of Bahawalpur.

Deadline for abstracts has now been extended to _Friday 26^th August._

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