Call for Papers for American Studies Assn (ASA) annual meeting, November
8-11, 2001, Washington, DC
"Cosmopolitan Cinema: Hollywood and Asia"
This panel seeks to explore some of the cultural aspects of globalization
by focusing on one industry (filmmaking) in one region (the trans-Pacific).
Moving beyond the simple equation of globalization with cultural
homogenization and Americanization, this panel will investigate the
reciprocal flows of cinematic style, genres, creative personnel, and
capital that have linked Hollywood and the multiple centers of Asian film
production since World War II.
Potential topics might include, but are not limited to:
-- influence of Hollywood genres and styles on postwar Japanese and Indian
cinema
-- influence of Hong Kong actors, directors, fight choregraphers in
Hollywood of the 1990s
-- effect of international economic and political relations -- the US
occupation of Japan, the return of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty, the
entry of China into the WTO -- on film production, reception, distribution,
and on film style
-- changing representations of race relations among blacks, whites, Asians
in Asian-influenced Hollywood movies
-- martial arts and representations of gender
-- transnational film production and film audiences
-- cosmopolitanism as a theme
-- queer cosmopolitanisms
Please send 150 word abstract via email to Tina Klein <cklein@mit.edu> by
December 31.
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Tina Klein
MIT, Literature Faculty
Bldg. 14N-412
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617)253-4450
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