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6th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference: Circuits of Exchange (With)in Southeast Asian Cinemas
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-10-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-07-13 |
| Announcement ID: |
169581 |
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6th Annual Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference: Circuits of Exchange (With)in Southeast Asian Cinemas
HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM
JULY 1 – 4, 2010
In recent years, independent filmmakers from Southeast Asia, in particular from The Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia have received some support from film festivals by way of monetary awards and grants. Simultaneously there have been co-productions (Singapore's Raintree Productions and MediaCorp for example) with film production companies outside the country, within the region, and with Hong Kong. Diasporic filmmakers also continue to return to make films in Southeast Asia.
At other levels, individual filmmakers work across several countries within Southeast Asia or in Asia. While film practitioners have been more active on such circuits of exchange, the same cannot be said for film theoreticians in the region. Film theory in Southeast Asia seems haphazard and is applied on an ad hoc basis since its foundations in other bodies of knowledge (continental philosophy, for example) may sometimes provide inadequate ways of framing and theorizing films from Southeast Asia.
This conference therefore sets out to explore the different ways in which filmmakers and film theorists have worked and can work within and beyond the limits of the region: as a product of colonialism and the Cold War, as nodes on a global network linked to economic, cultural, media and socio-cultural structures and flows, as equal and unequal partners in forging an identity that is both universal and particular.
We invite panels on Circuits of Exchange (with)in Southeast Asian Cinemas particularly questions concerning:
• Film Theory or Film Aesthetics in the Southeast Asian
Context: Modified Possibilities, Indigenous
Alternatives
• The Politics of Representation and Naming / Southeast
Asian Cinema
• Theorizing SEAsia Through Transnational Discourses
• Historical Connections within Asia
• Religion and Censorship
• Complicating Genres
• New Media and its Impact on SEAsian Film
• Additional Panel Topics: Intertextuality, Folklore,
Gender & Sexuality
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 31st, 2009
Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) to: Gaikcheng.khoo@anu.edu.au; Sophfeline@earthlink.net; cvanheeren@gmail.com
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Gaik Cheng Khoo
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
Building 14, A.D. Hope Building
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT 0200
Australia
Email: gaikcheng.khoo@anu.edu.au
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