ACSS Conference Program (2012) Day 1: March 16 (Friday) Time 9:00am 10:45am
Panel A1
Paper Titles
UG Highlights
1. Reformation Era: The Rise of Polygamy Cinema. (Syasyikirana, Wisyesya)
Chair: Gavin Tse
2. New Media Marketing of TV Series in China. (WANG, Suwan) 3. Image of Eastern women by Ibu Muslimah in tetralogy of Laskar Pelangi. (Wicaksana, Gde Evan Garry) 4. The future of Chinese TV Animation: The Case of The Legend of Qin. (Zhang, Garcia) 5. Re-creation and Recreation: National Identities in Seediq Bale (2011). (OuYang, Jennifer)
11:00am 12:45pm
A2
Southeast Asian Connections
1. Vietnam in Hong Kong Cinema. (Tsang, Daniel C.)
Chair: Maureen A. Sabine
3. From Regugees to Citizens, From Asian Americans to Hollywood Actors: The Visible, Invisible Hmong in Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino. (Chiu, Monica)
2. Days of Being Wild: Liminal Bodies and Spaces in Hong Kong-Philippine Translocality. (Boquiren, Laya)
Respondent: Ang Sze-wei 11:00am 12:45pm 1:00pm1:15pm
S1
Screening
Guest Speaker
Screening of Manila By Night (1980) Roger Garcia Director of Hong Kong International Film Festival
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 2:30pm 4:15pm
A3
Student Film Panel
1. Deaf Kid Not Stupid (聾孩不笨, 2012, 12mins) (Tsoi, Terry & Wong,
Chair: Tan See-Kam
2. The Love of Silence (無聲的愛, 2012, 6mins) (Shang, Yun-Lan)
Sammie)
3. You’re the Sign of My Love (那些年，一切由偶遇開始, 2012, 5mins) (Cheung, Anthony) 4. Run for my Dream (跑出我的夢, 2012, 16mins) (Lam, Jenny) 5. Remains (遺物, 2011, 21mins) (Leung, Andy) 6. Recent Memory (關於大學生活，我最近想起的是…, 2012, 06’44”) (Espeland, Alexander) 7. Several things before the bombardment (粉碎前的二三事, 2011, 04’16”)(Lam, Samwai & Lam, Hoi Man) 8. SANITY (2011, 12 minutes) (Un, Scarlett) 4:30pm 6:30pm
A4
Meet the Filmmakers: Shorts screening Chair: Roz Hammers
1. Camp (07’15”)/ Acorus Calamus (10 mins) (Freund, Peter) 2. Chubby Can Kill (2010, 19’49”) (Ung, Kevin) 3. Clips from “Global Indigenous Media – The Yunnan & Vietnam Community Based Visual Education and Communication ( CBV) Project 2006-2009” (around 20mins, Krueger, Karsten)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) Day2: March 17 (Saturday) Time 9:00am 10:45am
9:00am 10:45am
Paper Titles
Panel B1 Cultures of Capitalism
B2
1. Strange Times: Cannibalism and Capitalist Kitsch. (O’Neill, Dan) 2. Not Just Gratuitously Wild: Hong Kong Cinema as a Response to Neoliberalism. (Walters, Mark)
Chair: Mercedes Vazquez
3. A (Neoliberal) River Runs Through it: Some Observations on the Hanriver Renaissance Promotional Videos. (Jin, Hwan Yu)
Women’s Voices & Visions
1. Reinventing a communist Mulan: mythmaking in Youth in the Flames of War. (Jiang, wei)
Chair: Denise Tang
4. Informal Gloablized Media: Pirate cultures and cinema in contemporary Hanoi, Vietnam. (Tran, Tony)
2. Female voice and representation of sexual difference in films directed by Tanaka Kinuyo. (Armendariz, Alejandra) 3. A textual analysis of female consciousness in Twenty-first century Chinese Women directors’ films. (Vanderstaay, Lara) 4. The Film and Video Art of Midi Onodera. (Lesage, Julia)
11:00am – 12:45pm
B3
Screening Migrants Chair: King Pui Wai
1. Migrant Workers, Women, and China’s Modernization on Screen. (Lau, Jenny K.W.) 2. Hong Kong Female migrant workers in the Filmic Apartment Ellipsis. (Waller, Kathleen) 3. Representation of Korean and Zainichi Korean Identity in Post-2000 Japanese cinema. (Lichten, Jack) 4. Dancing the Queer Tango: Queer Homing Desires in Wong Kar-Wai’s Happy Together. (Seid, Danielle M.)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 11:00am 12:45pm
B4
Stardom/Fandom
1. A God and A King: Chow Yun-Fat and Shah Rukh Khan. (Soe, Valerie) 2. Chinese Fansubbing Community: The Conundrum of copyright and beyond. (He, Hilary Hongjin)
Chair: Valerie Soe
3. The queer female stardom emerging from transnational Chinese singing contests. (Au, Wai Man Vivian) 4. Looking for the Chinese star: the nationalism discourse and the shaping of film star image in Shanghai 1920s-1937. (Zheng Ji)
2:30pm – 4:15pm
B5
Sex/Censorship/ Disgust Chair: Chuck Kleinhans
1. Comparative censorship regimes in Hong Kong, the Straits Settlements and Shanghai International Settlement, 1916-1941. (Newman, David) 2. Globalization and film censorship in South Korea, 1988-1996. (Gillespie, Graham Neil) 3. China’s Internet and the Effects of Youth on Pornography. (Jacobs, Katrien) 4. The High Road to Disgust: Fu Bo. (Kleinhans, Chuck)
2:30pm – 4:15pm
S2
Screening
Screening of films (hosted by Ying-E Chi)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 2:30pm 4:15pm
B6
Transformations, Hybridities, Contingencies: Reframing Transnational film, Geography and Fandom in East Asia Chair: Stephanie DeBoer
4:30pm – 6:30pm
B7
Gender & Generation Chair: Staci Ford
1. Affinity and Distantiation between Japanese Cinema and Taiwanesedialect Cinema. (Wang, Chunchi) 2. The Trans-cult-ural Geographies of Hong Kong Film Fandom in Japan. (Morimoto, Lori Hitchcock) 3. Scaled Convergence and the Cultural Contingencies of Asian Coproduction. (DeBoer, Stephanie) 4. Through the Looking Glass Fondly: The Mystery of Japanophilia in Taiwanese Film. (Liao, Hsien-hao Sebastian) 5. The representation of “Kuntilanak” in Indonesian cinema: Reconstructing the Culture of fear. ( Wibawa, IGAK Satrya & Septiani, Dina)
1. Men, Money, and Memory: A comparative consideration of Three Idiots and You are the Apple of My Eye. Ford, Staci. 2. The invention of Romance: Park Chan Wook’s I am a Cyborg, But That’s OK. (Choe, Steve) 3. Transformations in the cinematic representation of youth. (Lam, Derek) 4. Masculinity, Hegemony and Identity: Genders, Ethnicities and Generations in films of Johnnie To and Milkyway Production. (Yim, Sebastian)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 4:30pm 6:30pm
B8
Emerging Cinema in Asia
1. The emergence of a Bhutanese Film industry: The practical and technical challenges, political aspirations and cultural perspectives of a developing cinema tradition. (Adler, Barbara)
Chair: Donna Ong
2. ‘Panchapor Tevy’: Cultural hybridization vs. Khmerization in a Cambodian film classic. (Baumgärtel, Tilman) 3. Going Home, with a friend named Hollywood: a political economic and cultural analysis of major Chinese directors and their recent works. (Ti, Wei) 4. A Claustrophobic State, Taiwan Three Rooms films of the 1970. (Ghermani, Wafa) 5. Sinology or Sinography?: René Viénet’s cinema détourne in the 1970s and the “Asiatic Mode of Production.” (Leung, Man Tat Terence)
6:30pm – 8:30pm
S3
Screening
Orient Top Town (2010, 83 mins) directed by Gina Wong
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) Day 3: March 18 (Sunday) Time 9:00am 10:45am
Panel C1 Film Festivals Chair: Ruby Cheung
Paper Titles Mobile phone cinema in South Korea: a case study of two film festivals. (Wilson, Gavin) Post-War Hollywood in SEAsia: The 1954 Asia-Pacific Film Festival. (Ainslie, Mary) Regarding the Grassroots Chinese Independent Film Festivals. (Ma, Ran) Film Festivals for the Filmmakers: Two Documentary Film Festivals in the East Asian Region. (Cheung, Tit-leung) East Asian Film Festivals and Market Components. (Cheung, Ruby)
9:00am 10:45am
C2
The Evacuated landscapes of Post-1964 Japanese cinema Chair: Kim Icreverzi
1. Lone-wolf Heroism: Takakura Ken’s Ninkyo Eiga. (Icreverzi, Kim) 2. Enclosed Spaces and Empty People in The Films of Adachi Masao. (Noonan, Partrick) 3. Background Video in an Age of ‘Subtractivism’. (Roquet, Paul) 4. Cinematic Journey to Asia in Japanese cinema-imaginary realities and time travel. (Cvetkovik, Andrijana)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 9:00am 10:45am
C3
History & Nationalism Chair: Stephen Chu
1. Qin Shihuang and the Three Kingdoms: Political narratives in the epic wuxia film. (Von Haselberg, Clemens) 2. Making and Debunking of the Myth of the First Emperor of China. (Mou, Sherry) 3. Projected Force and “Abstract Nationalism”. (Freudenberg, Benjamin) 4. Racism/Nationalism? Tsui Hark’s Once Upon a Time in China. (Yeung, Chun Kelly)
11:00am 12:45pm
C4
Time, Trauma, Memory Chair: Esther Yau
1. A Future in the Past? Claiming National Time and Memory in HK Action Cinema. (Yau, Esther C.M.) 2. ‘In the name of memory’: can documentary film retrieve the past? (Shen, Rui) 3. Witnessing, testimony, and commemoration: Ai Xiaoming’s documentary Film Our Children. (Jin, Lei) 4. The cinema of Zhang Yimou: From trauma to physical recovery. (Morag, Raya) 5. Wang Bing’s The Ditch: conflating ‘temporarlities’ and spectacle of horrors in an utopian documentary of the past. (Pollacchi, Elena)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 11:00am 12:45pm
C5
From the Independent to the Mainstream Chair: Liu Xi
1. Bangkok Battleground: Urban Perspectives in the Films of Prachya Pinkaew. (Klemm, Alexander J.) 2. Philippine independent cinema as a cinema of diversity: a thematic analysis of selected 2009 cinemalaya independent films and Philippine mainstream films. (Chua, Mae Ann L.) 3. Sprouting of the mainstream Malaysian Chinese (vernacular) cinema. (Chee, Beh Chun) 4. Scrutinizing Subversive Sensuality: Kim Ki-duk in/and Contemporary Korean Cinema. (Ho, Jason) 5. The Representation and voice of the Subaltern Women in Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian. (Chan, Wing-yan)
11:00am 12:45pm
C6
Archeology of Action & Horror Chair: Perry Johansson
11:00am – 12:45pm
C7
Alternative film scenes in the PRC Chair: Augustine Mok
1. The Martial-Arts Body as Cyber-Intertext: The Case of Donnie Yen. (Lau, Dorothy Wai-sim) 2. Kung Fu Masters on Steroids: Re-negotiating Nationalism and Modernity. (Wong, Wayne) 3. Hong Kong Zombie Movies as a Local-Global film genre: the cultural and ritual interpretation of Lam Ching-ying’s zombie movies. (Wei, Ping.) 1. Beyond Bollywood: Third Cinema, Film Festival and Sino-Indian Relations. (MOK, Chiu Yu Augustine & TAM, Siu Yan Xavier) 2. Challenging Authorities and Building Community Culture: Independent Queer Film Making in China. (FAN, Popo) 3. Flowing Rainbow Screens under the Wall of the Forbidden City: The 10Year ‘Guerrilla Warfare’ of the Beijing Queer Film Festival. (YANG, Yang) 4. Dance with the Ventriloquist’s Subaltern – Valorization of the Oppressed as Subject in and Beyond Wu Wenguang’s Dance with Peasant-Workers (2001). (Wang, Zhuoyi)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 2:30pm 4:15pm
C8
Traversing “China” in Film
1. The notion of Asia in Chinese Cinemas. (Lo, Kwai-Cheung)
Chair: Tim Bergfelder
3. Hong Kong’s Cosmopolitanization in the 1960s: Tracing the ‘Trans-ness’ of Shaw Brother’s Bangpian. (Tan, See-kam)
2. Beyond Sadness: Taiwan Cinema as Creative Cultural Industry. (Zhang, Yingjin)
4. Summer Palace: A Soundscape of Heterotopia. (Lin, Yiping) 2:30pm 4:15pm
C9
Aesthetics: Structure & Story
1. Dismantling the Master’s House: Questioning interpretation in the selfreflexive filmmaking of contemporary East Asian auteurs. (Coe, Jason)
Chair: Steve Fore
3. Dichtomous structure and narrative conventions in Hong Sang-Soo’s Geuk-jang-jeon [A tale of cinema]. (Davis, Robert W.)
2. Lost in Transcultural Time: Narrational Strategies in II Mare and The Lake House. (Bettinson, Gary)
4. ‘What’s Wrong with People of the Same Blood Playing Games Together?’: Queering Revenge in Park Chan-wook’s J.S.A.: Joint Security Area. (Lo, Louis) 2:30pm 4:15pm
C10
Film/Television/ Internet: Industry, Technology, Tourism
1. Film Locations and Sets Turned into primary destinations for Tourists: Evidence from Indonesia. (Imanjaya, Ekky & Kusumawardhana, Indra) 2. Multiplex in Urban China: A case study on Shenzhen Cai-Wu-Wei In-mall multiplexs. (Xu, Yaping) 3. Chinese Audiences and US Sitcoms: the Case of Friends. (Xu, Richard)
Chair: Jaymee Ng
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 2:30pm 4:15pm
C11
Manila by Night I: Up Close & Personal
4:30pm 6:30pm
C12
C13
2. Manila by Night: Visuals (Jamon, Roehl) 3. Sound and Fury, Signifying: Aural Dimensions of Manila by Night (David, Joel)
Chair: Shirley PalileoEvidente 4:30pm 6:30pm
1. Ishmael Bernal: The Man, the Philosopher, the Poet-Artist in Manila by Night and Some Selected Works (Santos Jr., Bayani)
4. Semiological Discourses of Image Order and Functional Dialectics in Manila by Night (Palileo-Evidente, Shirley)
Workshop: Publishing on Asian Film
1. Kleinhans, Chuck (Jump Cut)
Chair: Timothy O'Leary
4. Lewis, Mark (Intellect Press)
Aesthetic Forms
1. Anima[c]tor: Animator, …as Actor?! (Mokhtar, Ezwan Mohd)
Chair: Gordon Ho
2. Lesage, Julia (Jump Cut) 3. Lent, John (Asian Cinema)
2. ‘Chinese school’ animation masters: Their multi-talent works and interesting lives. (Xu, Ying) 3. A feeling of the real: challenging Xianchang in contemporary Chinese cinema. (Bertozzi, Eddie) 4. The long take and the time-image in recent Chinese cinemas: A reconsideration. (Chesney, Duncan McColl) 5. Ozu Yasujiro’s ellipses, gaps and empty spaces. (Hammond, Jeff Michael)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 4:30pm 6:30pm
C14
Film Festivals/ Shorts
1. Let the Deaf’s Dream Blossom with Films:The Role of Hong Kong International Deaf Film Festival in Asian Deaf Cinema. (TAM, Siu Yan Xavier)
Chair: Xavier Tam
2. Malaysian Deaf Short Films : The Beginning. (Nurul Oyun Mohd Salleh, Chee Huay Woon, Lim Chia Wei, Kareem Koh) 3. Twenty years of Chinese independent films at HKIFF: a retrospective analysis. (Pernin, Judith) 4. Destination or Transit?: The Shopping Mall, the Free Zone and the Dubai International Film Festival. (Dickinson, Kay)
4:30pm 6:30pm
C15
Manila by Night II: A Long Take
1. Manila, Tropic City (Jacobo,J. Pilapil)
Chair: Patrick F. Campos
3. To Conform or Not to Conform, That Is the Genderqueer Question: Reexamining the Lesbian Identity in Manila by Night (Cantor,Libay Linsangan)
2. Marcos, Manila by Night, Maynila: Sa mga Kuko ng Liwanag, and the Contestation for Imagery of the Nation (Tolentino,Rolando B.)
4. Manila by Night as Thirdspace (Campos,Patrick F.) 7:30pm – 10:15pm
S4
Screening
Big Blue Lake (2011) hosted by River Vision Production/Golden Scene (7:30pm-9:15pm) and the meet-the-audience session from (9:10-10:15pm)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) Day 4: March 19 (Monday) Time 9:00am 10:45am
Panel D1 Politics & Poetics of Nature Chair: Marie Berne
Paper Titles 1. Geographic and Mythic Space in the Asian Western. (Teo, Stephen) 2. The Ecopoetics of Memories: Landscape and Identity in Tsang Tsuishan’s Big Blue Lake (2011) (Yee, Winnie) 3. Catastrophe and commerce: representation of nature in Feng Xiaogang’s Cinema. (Neri, Corrado) 4. The Re-Enchantment of the Three Gorges: A Globalist, Ecocritical Perspective towards Three Gorges on Film. (Chu, Kiu-wai)
9:00am 10:45am
9:00am 10:45am
D2
D3
Re-visioning Japaneseness: Monga as the site of cross cultural investigation Chair: Ru-Shou Robert Chen China and the World Chair: Frank Dikotter
1. Study of Mon-ga as a Japanized YA movie. (Chen, Ru-Shou Robert) 2. Monga as Grounded Japaneseness – Japan in Taiwan's contemporary Cinema. (Chuang, Yin C.) 3. Images of Japaneseness in gangster movies from Taiwan and Hong Kong. (Chen, Wei-Pin) 4. Cross-cultural explanation and reception of Mon-ga in Japan. (Chu,YuAn)
1. Collaborating with France: the work of Maggie Cheung (HK); Lou Ye (Mainland); Hou Hsiao-hsien and Tsai Mingliang (Taiwan)? (Lagesse, Cecile) 2. Transcultural Spirituality in wuxia films: Taoist and Buddhist philosophies for global consumption. (Low, Yuen Wei) 3. Gaze or contemplation: visual representation of female body in Chinese high concept films. (Zhang, Junting)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 11:00am 12:45pm
11:00am 12:45pm
D4
D5
Recent developments in film industry of Mainland China
1. Blockbuster Films of Contemporary China. (Chen, Xihe) 2. Aesthetic evolution and Anxious appeal of Chinese sowordsmen film in the new century. (Jin, Danyuan) 3. The Concept in the Entropy Changing: The Birth, Transformation, and Dissipation of the “Six Generation” Films. (Nie, Wei)
Chair: Zhen Zhang
4. People power at the faultline: reconfiguring affective images of minoritarian subjectivity in new Chinese documentaries. (Ma, Ning)
Chinese Urban Cinema
1. Jia Zhangke’s Neoliberal China: the Commodification and Dissipation of the Proletarian in The World/Shijie (2004). (Wagner, Keith B.) 2. Confronting the Real, Construing the Reality in Jia Zhangke’s 24 City. (Wang, Chialan)
Chair: Loretta Ho
3. City Cacophony: Zhao Dayong’s Urban Portraits. (Lessard, Bruno) 4. Shanghai Panic: performing urban Linglei (alternative) culture and the Carnivalesque in Postsocialist China. (Berg, Daria & Leung, Wing-fai)
2:30pm 4:15pm
D6
Queer Pleasures & Preoccupations
1. The ‘unconscious’ of queer cinema: on Zero Chou’s Spider Lilies and Drifting Flowers. (Wu, Chia-chi)
Chair: Travis Kong
3. Male Spectacle and Hong Kong Cityscape in the Trilogy of Scud. (Lau, Paris Chi-Chuen)
2. The Perverted Repetition in The River and the Repeated Pathology of Globalization. (Tang, Aubrey)
4. The question of violence and male homoeroticism in the work of Apichatpong. (Hall, Jonathan M.)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 2:30pm 4:15pm
D7
Transnational Chinese Cinema Chair: Tim Gruenewald
1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Gendered Encoding of Martial Arts Cinema. (Yang, Jing) 2. From Page to Image: The Filmic Permutations of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. (Wu, E-chou) 3. Wu Xia (2011): Glocalism and Transnational Chinese Cinemas. (Chen, Yun-hua) 4. The Shared Dream: Transnational HK Cinema through Nostalgia. (Chan, Hiu M.)
4:30pm 6:30pm
D8
Hong Kong through Ann Hui’s Eyes Chair: Evelyn Ng
1. Popular Cinematic Form as Critical Space in the Work of Ann Hui. (Grace, Helen) 2. From Hong Kong with Love: Eileen Chang and Ann Hui. (Deppman, Hsiu-Chuang) 3. Hong Kong Women Filmmakers in Contemporary Global Cinema: A Study of Director Ann Hui. (Marchetti, Gina) 4. Hong Kong New Wave to SAR New Wave: From Ann Hui to Ann Hui and Beyond. (Szeto, Mirana M.)
4:30pm 6:30pm
D9
Audiences, Policies, Geopolitics, and Economics Chair: Tatu Laukkanen
1. Globalization, cultural policy and the education of filmmakers in Japan. (Tezuka, Yoshiharu) 2. The Japanese post-war film quota systm and Japan’s international film trade. (Howard, Christopher) 3. Quirky Guys and Gals: Japanese Cinema through the Third Window. (Berra, John) 4. Between Colonialism and Post-Colonialism in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia (1950-1965): Geo-politics, cinelinks, systems and cinema. (Mak, Grace)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 5:00pm 7:00pm
6:30pm 8:30pm
D10
D11
Hearing It Done: Film Music
1. Encoding and Decoding songs in New Chinese Film. (Du, Wenwei)
Chair: Chih-Ting Chen
3. Women through sound: Music of Farewell My Concubine. (Lin, Zhichun)
Representing Race
1. Tackling Orientalism with Cinematic Art: Cultural Representation in Bruce Lee’s The Way of the Dragon. (Wu, Min-Hua)
2. Popular Music and the Aesthetics of the Self in Wong Kar Wai’s Cinema. (Biancorosso, Giorgio) 4. Seductive, Spectacular and Fast: Formulating the Hindi Film Dance Spectacle from the 1930s to the 1950s. (Iyer, Usha)
2. The Film Versions of Mr. Wu. (Gan, Wendy)
Chair: Kendall Johnson
3. The Little Brown Brother ‘Shoots’ Back: Contesting American Hegemonies in Contemporary Filipino Films. (Valerio, Elvin Amerigo) 4. Caricatures with integrity: subverting Anglo Indian stereotypes in Indian Cinema. (Banerjee, Bidisha)
6:30pm 8:30pm
D12
Girls on the Go Chair: CHAN Hiu Lui, Yo Yo
1. ‘Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere’: travelling women in Wong Kar-wai’s globalized and post-colonial Hong Kong. (Lei, Chinpang) 2. Projections of Diasporic Sensibilities through Travel: Wong Kar Wai in/and My Blueberry Nights. (Chew, Yi Wei) 3. Girls as daughters: the silence of girl under the authoritative role of father in 2Young. (Kam, Chui Ping Iris) 4. Frame “chick”: a semiological analysis of Chinese chick flicks. (Luo, Joyce)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) People Inbetween (2007, 50 mins) directed by Jonnie Clementi Smith
7pm-9pm
S5
Screening
The Offerings (2012, 6 mins) Co-directed by Seth Henderson and Jonnie Clementi-Smith. The Left Behind Woman (2009, 23’57’) directed by Tony Lau
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) Day 5: March 20 (Tuesday) Time 9:00am 10:45am
Paper Titles
Panel E1
Genre Transformation
1. Eastern Westerns: Transnational Mutation of an “American” Genre. (Van den Troost, Kristof) 2. Bombay Noir: Shadows in Bright Lights.
Chair: Julia Kuehn
(Gopalan, Lalitha)
3. Muder by numbers: Domesticating serial killer narratives in Asian cinemas. (Ancuta, Katarzyna) 4. What is “New” About Wuxia Pian?: Exploring the Generic Re/production and Re/invention of Wuxia Pian. (Wu, Helena Yuen Wai)
9:00am 10:45am
11:00am12:45pm
E2
E3
Cinematic Circulation: Diaspora and Co-production
1. Cinema, Gender, and Globalization in Coming Soon (2008) (Tan, Wei Yan Edeline)
Chair: Izumi Nakayama Political Landscapes in China
3. At the edge of Asia: Regional co-production and Australia. (Walsh, Mike)
Chair: Louise Edwards
3. Visualizing the future of the PRC: representation of ‘cityscapes’ in political posters in late 1970s. (Wong, S.L. Natalie)
2. Double Lost in Non-Locality and Locality: The nomadic essence of Hong Kong cinema and culture in an era of globalization. (Chan, Ka Lok Sobel)
1. The Limits of representation: Wang Bing’s Labor Camp films. (Veg, Sebastian) 2. Colour and utopia: The portrayal of harvest in Cultural Revolution narrative films. (Pang, Laikwan)
4. Nanking and the Human: Hiroshima and the Human. (Eng, David L.)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 11:00am12:45pm
E4
Mobilizing desire, desiring mobility Chair: Jeroen De Kloet
1. Standing, Sitting and Jumping: Rooftops in Hong Kong cinema. (de Kloet, Jeroen & Chow, Yiufai) 2. (Im-)mobility in the Transition: The Emergence of Chinese Road Movie. (Wong, Terry Yui-kuen) 3. Constructing the Contemporary Chinese City: Space, Everyday Life and Identity in Emily Tang's Perfect Life. (Coppoolse, Anneke) 4. Training the desiring machine “Last Train Home”. (Chong, Gladys Pak Lei)
2:30pm 4:15pm
E5
Public/Private: Documentary Discourses
1. Beyond Asian? Beyond cinema? Intermediality, the performative and the cosmopolitan in the documentary films of Evans Chan. (Ingham, Mike)
Chair: Ian Aitken
3. Singapore: A nation of dreams or dreams unfulfilled? Probing the Singapore dream in Singapore Dreaming. (Lim, Wah Guan)
2. Private sponsorships and documentary film exhibition in Taiwan. (Shiau, Hong-chi)
4. Bare Life: What Do Animals Teach Us? (Siu, Anthony) 2:30pm 4:15pm
E6
Cinematic Identities Chair: Julianne Yang
1. Reading China in popular Hindi Film – Three points in time: 1946, 1964 and 2009. (Kripalani-Thadani, Coonoor) 2. Under Permanent Exception: Buddhist-Muslim Intimacies in Contemporary Thai Cinema. (Fuhrmann, Arnika) 3. Spectacularization of Overseas Work in Filipino Commercial Film. (Tan, Katrina Ross A.) 4. Uncovering Nepali Cinema: Living in the Shadow of Bollywood. (Pradhan, Jinni)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 4:00pm 6:00pm
E7
1. Family ties: Love, Money, Sex and Power as Portrayed in American and Hong Kong Television families. (So, Winnie)
Defamiliarizing Family
2. The return(s) of 72 Tenants: neighborhood comedy, new localism, and recent HK cinema. (Bao, Ying)
Chair: Issac Leung
3. Social Construction of family interaction in films. (Signo, Cristina M.) 4. Gender Portrayal on Comedy Cinema in Indonesia. (Santyaputri, Lala Palupi)
4:30pm 6:30pm
E8
1. Sounding Tokyo circa 1930: Whither independent cinema? (Fitzhenry, Michael)
Independent/ Experimental
2. Art and Negotiation in a Globalizing World: Moving Images by Contemporary Hong Kong Artists. (Teo, Phyllis)
Chair: Camille Deprez
3. From One Way Street to Great Society: (Un)making History in two Hong Kong independent films. (Lee, Vivian) 4. Spectrality and Mobility of Chinese Cinema and Culture in Transnational Artist Film and Video: On Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves. (Kim, Jihoon)
4:30pm 6:30pm
E9
Trans-border “Reglobalization:” the Hong KongShanghai-China dynamic Chair: Chen Jianhua
1. Re-globalizing Shanghai: The Visual Rhetoric of the Chinese “Global” City. (Sun, Shaoyi) 2. “Nation-widization” and Diasporic Presence: Re-mapping ChineseLanguage Cinema Culture (Shi, Chuan) 3. Negotiating Cultural Identity in Ann Hui’s “Tin Shui Wai” Films (Zhang, Chengjie) 4. Behind the Boom: Hong Kong in the Rise of the Chinese Film Industry (Chu, Katherine) 5. A Hong Kong odyssey: stories of (no) return from Rouge (1987) to Frozen (2010). (Law, Yuk-wa Fiona)
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ACSS Conference Program (2012) 6:00pm – 10:00pm
S6
Datong: Screening & Round Table Discussion
Welcome from Dean Kam Louie, Faculty of Arts (6:00 - 6:10pm) 1. Chan, Evans (Filmmaker) 2. Ingham, Mike 3. Cheung, Esther
Moderator: Mike Ingham
4. Lee, Leo 5. Hjort, Mette 6. Xu, Xi 7. Carroll, John
Post-conference Activity: March 21 (Wednesday) Time
Panel
Activitiy
1:003:00pm
PCA Post-Conference
Screening of shorts "暉仔", "佳叔" and "慰問" (in Cantonese) hosted by Chinese Independent Filmmaking Alliance (1:001:55pm) & post-screening discussion (1:55-2:55pm).
TBA
Activity --
Hong Kong Film Archive Tour
We plan to organize a Hong Kong Film Archive tour for our conference participants. Interested parties please contact Dr. Natalie Wong (
[email protected]) for registration information.
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