The ACR Lab’s Book Talks and Lecture Series will feature some of the most recent scholarly publications and new research projects in Asian cinema and media studies. Through these book talks and lectures, we will interact and discuss different issues in Asian Cinema and media studies.
22 Nov 20249:00 pm – 10:40 pm (HK time/GMT+8)Virtual (Zoom) Registration link: https://cityu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eQErPK3URbiDRCFZY-YnPA#/registration As shown by the success of Squid Game and Parasite, South Korea’s film industry
Date: 12 December 2024
3:00pm-4:30pm
Venue: Multimedia Laboratory (M5055),5/F,
Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Language: English
Speaker: Prof. Dal Yong JIN (Simon Fraser University)
Date: 12 November 2021 (Friday), 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Leslie Barnes (Australian National University) and Joseph Mai (Clemson University) will discuss their book “The Cinema of Rithy Panh” with contributors Khatharya Um (UC Berkeley), Jennifer Cazenave (Boston University), Raya Morag (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Lindsay French (RISD), an opening address by Mariam B. Lam (UC Riverside), and moderated by Darlene Espena (Singapore Management University).
Date: 12 November 2021 (Friday), 10:00 pm – 11:30 pm
Leslie Barnes (Australian National University) and Joseph Mai (Clemson University) will discuss their book “The Cinema of Rithy Panh” with contributors Khatharya Um (UC Berkeley), Jennifer Cazenave (Boston University), Raya Morag (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Lindsay French (RISD), an opening address by Mariam B. Lam (UC Riverside), and moderated by Darlene Espena (Singapore Management University).
Date: 5 November 2021 (Friday), 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Jasmine Nadua Trice (Associate Professor, UCLA) will introduce her new book “City of Screens: Imagining Audiences in Manila’s Alternative Film Culture” and discuss it with Patrick F. Campos (Associate Professor, UP Diliman).
Date: 17 September 2021 (Friday), 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Nam Lee (Associate Professor, Chapman University) will introduce her new book, “The Films of Bong Joon-Ho”.
Date: 10 September 2021 (Friday), 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Kenny K.K. Ng (Associate Professor, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University) will introduce his new book Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: Hong Kong Cinema with Sino-links in Politics, Art and Tradition.
Date: 16 July 2021 (Friday), 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Lalitha Gopalan (the University of Texas in Austin) will introduce her new book Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital Asia, the first book on independent filmmaking in India
Date: 25 June 2021 (Friday), 11:00am – 12:30pm (GMT +8)
Stephen Teo (Nanyang Technological University) will introduce his new book Chinese Martial Arts Film and the Philosophy of Action.
Date: 18 June 2021 (Friday), 11:00am – 12:30pm (GMT +8)
Markus Nornes (University of Michigan) will introduce his new book Brushed in Light: Calligraphy in East Asian Cinema.
Date: 26 March 2021 (Friday), 10:30am – 12:30pm (GMT +8)
Olivia Khoo discusses her new book, Asian Cinema: A Regional View. The book examines the transformations that have occurred Asia’s film industries in the last 30 years. From bilateral co-production agreements to pan- Asian financing, Asian cinema has assumed a regional identity beyond its constituent national cinemas.
Date: 19 February 2021 (Friday), 11:00am – 12:30pm (GMT +8)
Gerald Sim (Florida Atlantic University) will introduce his new book Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). (Korean Film Archive)
