>Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 16:51:21 -0600 >Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >Sender: [log in to unmask] >From: [log in to unmask] (David Desser) >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: book series announcement >X-Sender: [log in to unmask] > >Hi all. > >FYI. > >Also, please feel free to pass this along to other Film and Asian-studies >related listservs to which you may belong. KineJapan is my only listserv, >so I'd be grateful to those who did, indeed, pass this on to other relevant >lists. > >Thanks. > >David Desser > > >Film and Popular Culture in Modern Asia > >Poshek Fu and David Desser, series editors > >Call for Manuscripts or Proposals: > >Poshek Fu, Department of History, and David Desser, Unit for Cinema >Studies, University of Illinois, and the University of Michigan Press >announce a new series: "Film and Popular Culture in Modern Asia." The >series editors seek proposals or completed manuscripts dealing with aspects >of Asian film and popular culture that place films within their >cultural-political contexts and locate them in relation to other popular >cultural forms. We are particularly interested in studies which utilize >cross-disciplinary approaches, examine different cultural forms and their >interconnections, and which transgress national and regional boundaries. >We welcome studies combining theoretical insights with rigorous >scholarship. Under-studied cinemas, including Filipino, Indian, >Indonesian, Korean, and Thai; under-studied areas, for instance, >historical and critical analyses of regional film industries; and studies >of the relation between film and other popular cultural texts and their >transnational appeals and connections, are especially welcome. Please >contact Poshek Fu at: [log in to unmask] or David Desser at [log in to unmask] >Mail: Poshek Fu, Department of History, 810 S Wright, Urbana, IL 61801 >USA or David Desser, Unit for Cinema Studies, 3092 FLB/707 S. Mathews >Ave., Urbana, IL 61801 USA > > > > Full Alert Film Review http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/fafr.htm Funhouse http://wlt4.home.mindspring.com/funhouse.htm ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]