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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 /
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/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 Lee's /Crouching Tiger 
Hidden Dragon/ (2000) to the Asian Australian success of Tony Ayres's 
/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 'China', 'Chinese' and 'Chineseness'. 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 'outside China 
and on the margins of China and Chineseness'. 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 'in defense' 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): [log in to unmask]

Contact for journal information: Song Hwee Lim (Chief Editor, /Journal 
of Chinese Cinemas/): [log in to unmask]



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