Call For Papers
International Conference On:
Cultural Identity, Gender and Everyday Life Practice: Hong Kong Cinema of
the 1970s
August 15-17, 2004 Hong Kong
Department of Cinema and Television, and Humanities Program of Hong Kong
baptist University announce its Call for papers for the 2004 international
conference, August 15-17, on "Cultural Identity, Gender and Everyday Life
Practice: Hong Kong Cinema of the 1970s" in Hong Kong. The conference is
co-sponsored by Hong Kong Film Archive and Hong Kong Baptist University.
Exhibition and film shows of the 70s cinema will be held at Hong Kong Film
Archive during the conference period.
The conference aims to examine and survey the interconnection between Hong
Kong culture and cinema in the 1970s, and to study the traditions of Hong
Kong cinema and the socio-cultural contexts from which the film industry
developed in that period. It was during the seventies that Hong Kong cinema
began to draw wider international attention and created an interested
overseas audience of non-Chinese-speaking film fans. In other words, the
globalization of Hong Kong cinema became more visible from the seventies. It
was also in that decade that Mandarin-language cinema had been gradually
replaced by the revival of Cantonese cinema, thus resulting a more
culturally and linguistically unified image of Hong Kong cinema. On the
other hand, the growing influences of local Cantonese television channels
constituted a significant contributing factor to the development of a
stronger Hong Kong cultural identity of that period. We believe that Hong
Kong cinema of the 1970s is richly rewarding and historically exciting for
studying its cultural practice, and ideological and sexual articulations.
Opening/Keynote Speakers:
Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee, Harvard University;
Ms. Peggy Chiao Hsiung-Ping, Taiwan Film Center and the National Institute
of Art;
Professor Esther Yau, Occidental College;
Professor Poshek Fu, University of Illinois;
Mr. Law Kar, Hong Kong film Archive
Conference Topics:
Hong Kong Identity Formation, Colonialism and Chinese Culture;
Film, Television and Other Media of the 1970s;
Gender Representation;
City Life and the Emergence of Popular Culture;
Politics, Sociology, Ethnography and Hong Kong Community;
Modernity and Tradition;
Standard Chinese Language and Dialect: Mandarin and Cantonese Cinemas in the
1970s;
Overseas Markets and Film Industry Deveolpment in South East Asia and the
world.
Papers reflecting other relevant aspects of Hong Kong cinema in the 1970s
are also welcome.
Registration Fee: HK$ 1,000 (covering conference proceedings, meals and
coffee/tea breaks)
Medium of Deliberation: English and Chinese
Accommodation: Participants can choose on-campus accommodation in the Dr. Ng
Tor Tai International House for HK$ 380 per room and night
We welcome interdisciplinary approaches from an international collective of
scholars in film, humanities, art, and social sciences as well as public
scholars, theorists and writers.
Electronic submission is encouraged. Please return with one page abstract
and curricula vitae.
Deadlines for Abstracts and Papers:
1 March 2004 for abstracts (with C.V.). We will notify all the respondents
of our selection by early April.
30 June 2004 for completed working papers
Abstracts and papers should be sent to: hum@hkbu.edu.hk
or
by mail to:
Humanities Program
Hong Kong Baptist University
Kolwoon Tong
Hong Kong
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