Call for Papers – Reassessing Chinese Independent Cinema: Past, Present… and Future?, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, June 5-6, 2020
If Wu Wenguang’s Bumming in Beijing (1990) is considered to mark the birth of independent cinema in the People’s Republic of China (hereafter China) that...
Preview – New Interdependencies in Chinese Cinema: Glocal Production and Cultural Hybridity, Institute of Advanced Studies, London, November 18
Since 2013, China has become the second-largest film market after the United States. The rapid growth of mainland China’s film industry has profoundly impacted and...
Call For Papers – Rethinking Film Genres: East Asian Cinema and Beyond (University of Hull, 14-15 September 2017)
What is film genre? Does it still matter in today’s film production, distribution and consumption? How have some film genres become so closely associated with...