About this Event
PRESENTED BY THE ASIAN FILM & MEDIA INITIATIVE (AFMI), NYU
JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2024
5.15pm-6.30pm
Performance Studies Studio, 6th Floor, Tisch School of the Arts (721 Broadway)
Followed by reception
Asian cinema studies has rapidly expanded under the impact of globalization, compounded by the resurgence of varied nationalisms, resistance movements, and the affordances of digital media. Differentiated experiences of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have further heightened interest in local politics and cultural activism, newer media and the digital everyday, and a renewed geopolitical divide between East and West and between North and South. A new “companion” to Asian cinemas therefore feels necessary and urgent in these times. This collaborative volume takes up emerging questions in the field to weave a model for a “trans-Asian” film studies that is cognizant of the durability of the nation state as well as alternative models of situated multiscalar ideas of place and belonging.
SPEAKERS (editors and contributors)
TEJASWINI GANTI (NYU)
JINYING LI (BROWN)
DEBASHREE MUKHERJEE (COLUMBIA)
ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN (HARVARD)
ZHEN ZHANG (NYU)
SPECIAL GUESTS
THOMAS LOOSE (NYU)
SAMUEL JAMIER (NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL)
CO-SPONSORED BY
THE MARTIN SCORSESE DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN, AND AFRICAN STUDIES (MESAAS) AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least 24 hours before the start of the event. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
721 Broadway room 612, 721 Broadway, New York, United States
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