[Bilimsel Haber] NOTICE: Symposium - The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social
Change - University of Hong Kong
Sule Tarakcioglu
suletar@kulturad.org
Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:44:44 +0200
From: S. Ford <sford@HKUCC.HKU.HK>
The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social Change
A Symposium sponsored by the Film Culture Project of the
Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Music, and
the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
The Film Scene: Cinema, the Arts, and Social Change will be held at the
University of Hong Kong, April 21-22, 2006 (following the Hong Kong
International Film Festival, April 4-19). This interdisciplinary, two-day
symposium will bring together scholars from Hong Kong and abroad to
explore the
connections between the cinema and the other arts within the context of
social
change. Since its birth, the cinema has been at the crossroads of the
connections among the plastic and performing arts, and, today, film
continues
to question the borders separating various aesthetic practices and media.
Within this complex matrix, the film "scene" emerges as a meeting ground of
artists working in various forms on the cutting edge of aesthetic
exploration
and social change.
Possible topics/panels:
� Defining the "scene": Film as artistic practice and public event
� Film and other art forms (music, dance, theatre, photography, fine
arts,
digital arts, literature, etc.)
� Film Music and the Music Scene (connections to classical music,
Canto-pop, Chinese opera, ethnomusicology, etc.)
� Gender and the film scene: Women's issues, sexuality, masculinity,
queer cinema, etc.
� Film and arts activism: Cinema and the political scene
� Film and the public sphere: modernity, post-modernity, and the
motion
picture
� The Hong Kong "scene": Film and the arts in Hong Kong
� Defining an Asian "scene": The global reach of Asian cinema
� Globalization and the Indie Scene: Independent cinema and
transnational film culture
� The Cyber-Scene: Film and digital culture
� Between Art and Document: Interconnections between video art and
documentary practices
� Being Seen: Stardom, images, and commodities
� History Seen: Colonialism, post-colonialism, and the cinema
� The Money Seen: Film and the circulation of capital
� The Scene as Site: Space, place, and the film scene
� The Spiritual Dimension: Traditional beliefs and contemporary
cinema
� Seen, Scene, and Obscene: Sexuality and the cinema
Professor Ackbar Abbas, author of Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of
Disappearance (Minnesota, 1997), of the Department of Comparative
Literature,
will deliver the keynote address on April 21. Professor Kam Louie, Dean
of the
Faculty of Arts and author of Theorising Chinese Masculinity: Society and
Gender in China (Cambridge, 2002), will offer opening remarks.
We invite all scholars and students working in any academic discipline
to play
a part in the symposium. If you would like to participate, please send
a brief
abstract of your presentation (under 250 words) or a brief outline of
what you
would like to contribute (e.g., chair a panel, organize a workshop,
prepare a
poster session, etc.) to Dr. Gina Marchetti, Comparative Literature, at
marchett@hkucc.hku.hk by February 15, 2006. We will not be able to provide
transportation, accommodations, or honoraria. However, there is no
registration fee for the symposium, and lunch will be provided on April 22.
If you have any further questions, please contact Gina Marchetti,
marchett@hkucc.hku.hk or any of the other members of the organizing
committee,
including Esther Cheung, estherch@hkucc.hku.hk, Chan Hing-yan,
tlychan@hkucc.hku.hk, Giorgio Biancorosso, rogopag@hkucc.hku.hk, Mirana
Sze-to,
mmszeto@hkucc.hku.hk, and Yau Ka-fai, kafaiyau@hkucc.hku.hk.