Back when I started studying Japanese cinema, I took Noël Burch at his word when he wrote that there was no film theory to be found in Asia. I suspect the common sense in the halls of SCMS conference hotels hasn't changed all that much. But this conference will turn that upside-down. More than 60 papers on film theory in Japanese, Korean and Chinese, ranging from the 1910s to the present! Check it out. Come if you can. http://filmtheories.org/upcoming-conference-film-theory-in-korea-japan-and-sinophone-asia-university-of-michigan-2012/ Markus Nornes _________________________________ A. M. Nornes Chair, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures Professor, School of Art & Design University of Michigan North Quad 6F, 105 S. State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1608 Phone: 734-763-1314 FAX: 734-936-1846 ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org