[csaa-forum] CFP: Journal of Chinese Cinemas - From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas

[Fran Martin]

* Apologies for cross-posting*
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Journal of Chinese Cinemas (2012)
Title: From Diasporic Cinemas to Sinophone Cinemas
Guest Editors: Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo

Journal of Chinese Cinemas is the only refereed academic publication in
English devoted to the study of Chinese film.
>From the critical and popular acclaim of Ang Lee¹s Crouching Tiger Hidden
Dragon (2000) to the Asian Australian success of Tony Ayres¹s The Home Song
Stories (2007), diasporic Chinese cinemas have created new filmic sites and
visual practices that engage the complex relations between the constructs of
ŒChina¹, ŒChinese¹ and ŒChineseness¹. While the notion of diaspora has
broadened these concepts to new areas and new objects of inquiry,
Chineseness remains largely a question of ethnicity, bound to nationality.
In Visuality and Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific,
Shu-mei Shih (2007) invokes the notion of the Sinophone to respond to the
expiry date of the Chinese diaspora as second and third generations become
more localized. As a critical concept, the Sinophone removes the emphasis on
ethnicity and nationality, and instead highlights communities of Sinitic
language cultures spoken and used Œoutside China and on the margins of China
and Chineseness¹. The Sinophone network connects new visualities and
communities that have emerged as a result of global capitalism; it critiques
home and host cultures, reflecting multi-accented, multilingual histories of
transnational migration.
This special issue, edited by Audrey Yue and Olivia Khoo, focuses on the new
cinemas emanating from the Sinophone network, and is scheduled for
publication in early 2012. The editors of the special issue now invite
abstract submissions of 250-300 words on any of the following aspects:
* the political economy of Sinophone film production, distribution,
consumption and regulation;
* cinematic practices of Sinophone resistance, complicity and
transformation; 
* Sinophone communities as sites of cultural production;
* new Sinophone visual economies and cultures
* examples of multilingual, multidialect or multi-accented Sinophone cinema
in their historical, social or cultural contexts;
* comparative Sinophone film studies;
* papers Œin defense¹ of diasporic Chinese cinema frameworks and critiquing
the Sinophone model.


Each abstract should:

- include your name, email and postal address, and institution;
- offer a summary of how your proposed essay engages the critical framework
of Sinophone cinema.

Important dates: 
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 December 2010
Acceptance notice: 15 January 2011
Deadline for paper submission (6000-8000 words): 1 June 2011
Abstract submissions (as word documents by email attachment) to: Audrey Yue
(University of Melbourne, Australia): aisy at unimelb.edu.au

Contact for journal information: Song Hwee Lim (Chief Editor, Journal of
Chinese Cinemas): S.H.Lim at exeter.ac.uk





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