Call for Papers: Action Cinema Now International Conference, 12-14 April 2019, Reading and London UK
At a moment when the relationship between popular culture, politics and society is again being sharply debated, action cinema as a dominant form of mass...
Call for Papers: Capture Japan – Visual Culture and the Global Imagination
Contributions are now being accepted for a new edited book titled ‘Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present’. The...
Call for Papers – The 11th Centre for Chinese Visual Arts Annual Conference, Birmingham City University, September 10-11
The Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) at Birmingham City University aims to foster new understandings and perspectives of Chinese contemporary arts, design and visual...
Call for Papers – East Asian Journal of Popular Culture
In recent decades, there has been a huge rise in the interest in East Asian popular culture. Since being launched in 2015, the East Asian Journal of...
Preview – Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018, March 9-18
The Osaka Asian Film Festival has become one of the top movie events in Japan over the years and the next run will have its...
Call for Photo Essays – Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review
Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is a joint project of the Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS) at Korea University and the Institute...
Call for Papers – The Korean Television Reader
Despite the large interest in Korean television among academics and fans, studies of Korean television content in Anglo-speaking countries have seen limited publication. This is...
Preview – Two or Three Things I Know About Kim Ki-young, Korean Cultural Centre UK, February 22
The 5th of February marks the 20th anniversary of filmmaker Kim Ki-young’s death. After making his directorial debut in commercial cinema with 1955’s Box of...
Crowdfund This – Eat Drink Boy Girl
The recently announced nominations for the 2018 Academy Awards were hailed as a triumph for diversity in some quarters with Jordan Peele, Daniel Kaluuya, Mary...
Preview – The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2018, Februrary 2-March 28
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme returns to the UK from February 2 to March 28 to bring audiences another taste of the cinematic delights...