Call for Papers: 21st Century Cinema of the Sinosphere
Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2024 panel organized by Wesley Jacks and Yongli Li
We invite submissions of paper proposals exploring the impact of Chinese globalization as manifested in contemporary transnational cinemas to be held at the SCMS 2024 Annual Conference in Boston.
This panel builds from the term “cinemas of the Sinosphere,” put forward by Chris Berry in 2021 for its dual abilities to cover transnational Chinese cinema “in all its forms” and to link Chinese cinemas to ongoing and competing processes of globalization. For this panel, we welcome proposals that extend, challenge, and respond to Berry’s notion of “cinemas of the Sinosphere” through case studies attuned to specific films and film industries. Of particular interest to the co-organizers are questions of “address” which interrogate how/where/when audiences outside the political boundaries of China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan are catered to/ignored.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- The evolving impact of the Chinese film market on specific global cinema industries
- The success/failure/irrelevance of co-productions and co-production agreements between China and partner nations
- Sinitic language cinemas outside Chinese film industries
- Digital platforms in/surrounding China
- Depictions of “foreign” territories and/or border crossing in films produced by PRC companies
- The push for a transnationally “successful” Chinese blockbuster
- Encounters between neoliberal and big state models in Hong Kong cinema and/or HK-PRC co-productions.
Please submit your proposal (around 250 words) and a brief bio (100 words) as one PDF file no later than August 18th to the panel co-organizers, Wesley Jacks (wesleyjacks@ln.edu.hk) and Yongli Li (yonglili@holycross.edu). Meanwhile, please feel free to email us if you have any questions.