<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Dear all,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Please see below the Call for Papers for a workshop I'm organising on "Film Stardom in Southeast Asia", which takes place at Monash University's Malaysia campus on 24 and 25 November of this year. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Best wishes,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Jonathan</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br clear="none"></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,"Lucida Grande",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt"><br clear="none">Film Stardom in Southeast Asia</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14pt">- Workshop -</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Monash University Malaysia, 24 & 25 November 2016</span></b></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">All across Southeast Asia film stars have attained an important place in popular culture, appearing in magazines and newspapers, on billboards and cinema marquees, at public events and premieres, and now on the internet. While some are from cinemas from outside the region, such as Hollywood or Hindi cinema, Southeast Asian cinemas have also built their own distinctive star systems, which have produced a host of successful stars. These stars often possess the general features of stardom commonly noted in film scholarship, such as glamour and charisma, while at the same time offering nationally (or even regionally) specific inflections of the phenomenon, embodying local tastes, values and ideologies. Many have reached stellar levels of fame, with Mitr Chaibancha in Thailand, P. Ramlee in Malaysia and Nora Aunor in the Philippines, for example, all attaining legendary status in their respective countries. And yet there is little academic work focusing on the region’s stars.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">This workshop on film stardom in Southeast Asia will contribute to existing scholarship in Star Studies and Southeast Asian cinema studies in a number of key ways. It will explore such questions as: how do Southeast Asian film stars contribute to the marketing, business and economics of the industries they work in? In what ways are Southeast Asian films shaped by their stars, through their extra-filmic personas and/or their star performances? How do the region’s stars give insight into the social and political contexts of life in Southeast Asia? To what extent do film stars offer a fresh perspective on Southeast Asian film history?</span></div><div style="text-align:justify;text-indent:18pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Potential topics include, but are not limited to:</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"></div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Case studies of particular stars and star systems from the region<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Nationally specific ideas of stardom in Southeast Asia (e.g. in Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam)<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Stardom and identity (e.g. class, ethnicity, gender, sexuality)<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Stars of independent and auteur cinema<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Stardom’s relationship with empire and post-colonialism<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The influence of stardom from other parts of the world (e.g. Hollywood, India, Hong Kong)<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Religion and stardom in Southeast Asia<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Transnational Southeast Asian stars<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Stardom and Southeast Asian film genres<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Stardom and performance (including the influence of regional performance traditions)<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">The role of stars in mediating notions of tradition and modernity<br clear="none"></span><br clear="none"></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Fans, audiences and reception studies</span><br clear="none"></li></ul><div></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt">This two-day workshop will be a closed-door event, only open to the workshop’s speakers and discussants. Speakers will give a 20-30 minute presentation, which will be followed by discussion and Q&A.</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt">Confirmed speakers include: Mary Ainslie (University of Nottingham, Malaysia), Katarzyna Ancuta (Assumption University of Thailand), Thomas Barker (University of Nottingham, Malaysia), Annette Hamilton (University of New South Wales), David Hanan (Monash University) and Rolando Tolentino (University of the Philippines, Diliman).</span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt">The workshop will take place at Monash University Malaysia, located just outside Kuala Lumpur: </span><span lang="EN-AU"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="http://www.monash.edu.my/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">http://www.monash.edu.my/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt"></span></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center"></div><div style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt">If you are interested in participating please submit a 300-word abstract for a paper along with a short bio to Jonathan Driskell (</span><span lang="EN-AU"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" href="mailto:jonathan.driskell@monash.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">jonathan.driskell@monash.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.5pt">) by 1 August 2016.</span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b><font size="2" face="arial narrow, sans-serif">DR JONATHAN DRISKELL</font></b></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Course Coordinator<br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b>School of Arts and Social Sciences</b></span><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Monash University Malaysia<br>Jalan Lagoon Selatan<br>47500 Bandar Sunway<br>Selangor Darul Ehsan<br>Malaysia<br><br></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">T: (+603) 5514 6128<br>F: (+603) 5514 6365</font><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">E: <a href="mailto:jonathan.driskell@monash.edu" target="_blank">jonathan.driskell@monash.edu</a></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial narrow, sans-serif">Staff profile: <a href="http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/staff/academic/dr-jonathan-driskell" target="_blank">http://www.sass.monash.edu.my/staff/academic/dr-jonathan-driskell</a></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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