Department of Cultural, Media and Visual Studies

'Chinese Cinema: Space, Identity and Politics' Research Symposium

Date(s)
Friday 5th June 2015 (13:00-17:00)
Description

13:00-13:30 arrival and coffee/tea/refreshments

13:30 welcome (Hongwei Bao)

13:30-15:00 Part 1. Film History and Political (Un)Consciousness

The Shortlived Attempt to Make Minnan Dialect Films in the Mid-1950s in the PRC - Dr Jeremy Taylor (University of Nottingham)

Extraterritoriality in Hong Kong cinema and its Political Consciousness - Dr Victor Fan (Kings College London)

Ghost Shanghai in Taiwan New Cinema and After - Dr Lin Feng (University of Hull)

15:00-15:30 tea/coffee break

15:30-17:00 Part 2. Transnational Filmmaking and Cultural Translation

Translating China: Cultural Brokerage and the Sole Trader Film Festival - Dr Luke Robinson (University of Sussex)

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: Acting Sexy in Hong Kong and China - Dr Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham)

Queer as Catachresis: Queer Filmmaking and LGBT Activism in the People's Republic - Dr Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)

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