ASIAN CINEMA RESEARCH LAB

The Hub Of Film Studies in Asia

The Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab) is a network of Asian cinema and media researchers working in Asia and beyond. The ACR Lab aims to forge strong alliances with the world’s leading film studies institutions and film festivals.

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Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab) Book Talk: Global Entanglements Bong Joon Ho’s Cinematic Geographies

This talk is a retrospective examination of the entire body of work of the renowned South Korean film director, Bong Joon Ho, looking specifically at the way in which his films thematize social entanglements at various scales. The scalar focus in these treatments ranges from the micro to macro, from the local idiosyncrasies of a Korean apartment complex in which neighbors get on each other’s nerves to global systems of commerce and exchange in which multinational corporations compete in increasingly cut-throat markets. We may think of Bong Joon Ho’s body of work as offering a capacious geography that spatializes in film the complex web of social entanglements that shape life in the 21st century, and all this from the perspective of late capitalist South Korea, which turns out to offer special insight into our contemporary historical moment.

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New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies City University of Hong Kong – New York University Joint Symposium

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.

“New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies” symposium is organized by the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in partnership with the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Asian Film & Media Initiative (AFMI), and Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). This symposium is a subsequent event for the publication of The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas, a massive volume of Asian cinema studies, which was edited by Zhang Zhen, Sangjoon Lee, Intan Paramaditha, and Debashree Mukherjee.

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Book Talk

Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab) Book Talk: Global Entanglements Bong Joon Ho’s Cinematic Geographies

This talk is a retrospective examination of the entire body of work of the renowned South Korean film director, Bong Joon Ho, looking specifically at the way in which his films thematize social entanglements at various scales. The scalar focus in these treatments ranges from the micro to macro, from the local idiosyncrasies of a Korean apartment complex in which neighbors get on each other’s nerves to global systems of commerce and exchange in which multinational corporations compete in increasingly cut-throat markets. We may think of Bong Joon Ho’s body of work as offering a capacious geography that spatializes in film the complex web of social entanglements that shape life in the 21st century, and all this from the perspective of late capitalist South Korea, which turns out to offer special insight into our contemporary historical moment.

Read More »
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New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies City University of Hong Kong – New York University Joint Symposium

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.

“New Directions in Trans-Asian Cinema and Media Studies” symposium is organized by the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong in partnership with the Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Asian Film & Media Initiative (AFMI), and Asian Cinema Research Lab (ACR Lab). This symposium is a subsequent event for the publication of The Routledge Companion to Asian Cinemas, a massive volume of Asian cinema studies, which was edited by Zhang Zhen, Sangjoon Lee, Intan Paramaditha, and Debashree Mukherjee.

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