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<DIV>-Apologies for cross-postings-</DIV>
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<DIV>Call for Papers: "The Future of Chinese Cinema"</DIV>
<DIV>1-3 April 2006, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia</DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'"><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Convenors:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Dr.
Olivia Khoo, School of Media, Film and Theatre, UNSW<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Dr.
Sean Metzger, Department of English and Theatre, Duke University, USA
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></SPAN></B><SPAN
lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> </P>
<DIV>Confirmed participants include: <BR>Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of
the Humanities at Brown University, USA.</DIV>
<DIV>Chris Berry, Professor of Film and Television Studies at Goldsmiths
College, UK.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"></SPAN><B><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The
School of Media, Film and Theatre, and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
at the University of New South Wales, will be hosting an international symposium
to explore the future of transnational Chinese cinema. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">After the devastation of the
Asian economic crisis, the uncertainty of the Hong Kong handover and the events
at Tiananmen Square in 1989, the period of the 1990s and beyond has seen the
emergence of a number of fresh new works from the region’s filmmakers. China’s
entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 has ushered in a whole set of
film industry reforms, including the major step of </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU">allowing
independent film companies to produce films no longer requiring affiliation with
any official government studio. Several new</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> independent production and
distribution companies have appeared, aiming to compete with State-owned film
studios</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU">.
</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">A
new urban cinema is emerging in the PRC and there is also a thriving documentary
scene for the first time. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU">The
film industries in Taiwan and Hong Kong have also been greatly affected by the
reforms taking place in the PRC, especially as </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">the last decade has
witnessed a strengthening of the connections and exchanges taking place between
the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan (in terms of personnel, co-financing, and the
use of locations). These changes in the filmmaking climate in Greater China over
the last few years have meant that the landscape of contemporary Chinese
culture, and its cinema, is changing.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">In this symposium, we will
investigate the specifics of these changes and connect them to the historical
antecedents that have preceded and enabled these shifts. Such historicization
requires work not only on contemporary Chinese cinema, but also on the
particular movements of actors and directors in the larger Chinese diaspora that
have laid the foundations for China’s now more obvious transnational cinematic
practices. How, for example, did the movement of actors, directors and producers
in the previous decades create a network for the emergence of such a cinema? In
what ways does the cinematic industry prior to 1949’s transition to state
ownership anticipate the cinema of today? What has been the role of Chinese
diasporic communities in creating both the notion and actual practice of
transnational Chinese cinema? </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU">T</SPAN><SPAN
lang=EN-US style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">his symposium
will bring together a number of fresh new perspectives on the future of
transnational Chinese cinema in order to comment on its continued global
efficacy. </SPAN><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Possible
topics for discussion: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
The independent film scenes emerging in Greater China, including the DV
revolution.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
The new Chinese documentary movement.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
Films by marginalized sectors of the Chinese community, especially women and
queer filmmakers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
The role of international film festivals in the exhibition of Chinese
films.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
The relationship between Chinese cinema and other Asian film cultures, such as
those in Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
Diasporic Chinese filmmakers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
The sustaining problems of film piracy in the region and questions of the
distribution of Chinese cinema to Australia and other parts of the world.
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-US
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">*
Migration and its effects on the historical and current practice of Chinese
filmmaking. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><SPAN lang=EN-AU
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">Please
send a brief curriculum vitae and a one-page summary of your proposed paper
by</SPAN> 1 September 2005. Successful applicants will be notified by 1
November 2005 and full papers (5000-8000 words) are due 15 February 2006.
Successful applicants will be granted a return economy airfare to
Sydney plus contributions to other expenses. Approximately 12 places
will be available. See <A
href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/conferences/chinese_cinema.html">http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/conferences/chinese_cinema.html</A>
for more information or contact Dr. Olivia Khoo: <A
href="mailto:o.khoo@unsw.edu.au">o.khoo@unsw.edu.au</A> </FONT></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<DIV>--<BR>Dr. Olivia Khoo<BR>School of Media, Film and Theatre<BR>University of
New South Wales<BR>Sydney NSW 2052<BR>AUSTRALIA</DIV>
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<DIV>Ph:+61-2-9385-7735<BR>Fax:+61-2-9662-2335<BR><A
href="mailto:o.khoo@unsw.edu.au">o.khoo@unsw.edu.au</A><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>