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Parallel texts, Intersecting Conversation: Soft Power, Film Festivals, and Cinema

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Date:

12 Jan 2017

Time:

4:00pm – 6:00pm

Venue:

Swire Hall 2, Fung King Hey Building, CUHK

Speaker(s):

Prof. Chris BERRY (King’s College London), Prof. Song Hwee LIM (CUHK) and Dr. Luke ROBINSON (University of Sussex)

Biography of Speaker:

Chris BERRY is Professor of Film Studies at King’s College London, UK. His primary publications include Cinema and the National: China on Screen; Postsocialist Cinema in Post-Mao China: the Cultural Revolution after the Cultural Revolution; Public Space, Media Space; and The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record. He is also a co-editor (with Luke Robinson) of Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation.

Song Hwee LIM is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Celluloid Comrades: Representations of Male Homosexuality in Contemporary Chinese Cinemas (2006) and Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness (2014). He is also co-editor of Remapping World Cinema: Identity, Culture and Politics in Film (2006) and The Chinese Cinema Book (2011), and founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Cinemas. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled “Taiwan New Cinema as Soft Power”.

Luke ROBINSON is Lecturer in Film Studies in the Department of Media and Film, University of Sussex, UK. He is the author of Independent Chinese Documentary: From the Studio to the Street (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and the editor, with Chris Berry, of Chinese Film Festivals: Sites of Translation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). His writing on Chinese-language feature film, animation, documentary, and film festivals has appeared in books and journals including DV-made China: Digital Subjects and Social Transformations after Independent Film, The New Chinese Documentary Movement: For the Public Record, The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics, positions: asia cultures critique, Film Studies, Journal of Children and Media, and Journal of Chinese Cinemas.

Enquiries:

cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk

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