ICS Fall 2011 Speakers Series

November 16, 12:00pm - 1:30am
Mānoa Campus, Burns 2118 (East-West Center) Add to Calendar

“Film Studies, Cultural Studies, and Asian Cinema” Wimal Dissanayake, PhD

Film Studies is increasingly coming under the sway of Cultural Studies. In the 1980s and 1990's the ‘Screen School’, largely under the guidance of Jacques Lacan and Louis Althusser, exercised a deep influence on the growth of film studies. Questions of textual production, textual subjectivity, subject-positioning were paramount. However since the late 1990s there gas been a gradual widening of the discursive field of cinema; textual subject has yielded to cultural subjectivity; contexts of production, dissemination and reception have become as important as the intricacies of texts themselves. The concept of culture as a site where meanings are made, unmade, and remade, has gained ascendancy. As a consequence increasing attention is being paid to the wider cultural discourse that inflects cinema; questions of race, gender, class, minorities, migration, history, globalization, capitalist modernity are becoming more important. The relationship between cinema and everydayness has assumed a new vibrancy. It is against this background of interpretive change that I wish to examine Asian cinema, and how a Film Studies re-energized by Cultural Studies will enable us to understand better the complex trajectories of Asian cinema.


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Free, open for public

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International Cultural Studies Graduate Certificate Program, Mānoa Campus

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Hala Ghoname, 8089447593, culture@hawaii.edu, http://www2.hawaii.edu/~culture/

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