Hollywood Chinese – Film Screening and Discussion – London, May 1
Posted: April 24th, 2013 | No Comments »An interesting event if you happen to be in London this May Day….
Artefact & Curation Research Hub and TrAIN Research Centre present:
Hollywood Chinese
Dir. Arthur Dong, 2007
Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Li
Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of Arts London (2013)
Date: Wednesday 1st May 2013Â
Time: 17:30 – 19:30; followed by drinks in Terrace
Location: Rootstein Hopkins East Space, London College of Fashion, 20 John Prince’s Street, London W1G 0BJ
Combining historical footage with interviews of directors and actors, both Chinese and non-Chinese, Arthur Dong’s 2007 award winning documentary offeres a rare historical overview of the Chinese in the Hollywood dream machine. We shall watch the film and then open up a discussion, centered on but not limited to the following, “ethnicity and visibility”, “minority, majority, and mediated democracy”, “representation, political and asethetic”, “representation as identification and regulation”, “representation between race, gender, and nation”. Undergriding these different aspects of the documentary is an overarching question specific to the film and its US context. Instead of the common sense question perennially posted to a Chinese American, “which part of you is Chinese and which part is American?”. We will attempt a question of uncommon sense, “How does the Chinese define the American subject?”.
Professor of English, & the Collins Professor of the Humanities at the University of Oregon, USA, David Leiwei Li is Fulbright Distinguished Professor Chair at the University of Arts London (2013), completing his ongoing monograph, Globalization on Speed: Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Contemporary Chinese Chinema. He is the author of Imaging the Nation: Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent (Stanford UP 1998), the editor of Globalization & the Humanities (HK UP, 2004), and Asian American Literature, a 2240 pages collection of criticism (Routledge, 2012).
This is a joint-college event between London College of Fashion and TrAIN Research Centre. It is opened to all University staff, researchers, postgraduate students, and the public. You do not have to be a member of the hub.
Please RSVP to Hub Coordinator, Dr Wessie Ling – w.w.ling@fashion.arts.ac.uk
The Artefact and Curation Hub is a UAL wide London College Fashion based research hub, coordinated by Dr Wessie Ling. It is an informal forum to discuss practices related to artefact and curation. We welcome university-wide colleagues and postgraduate students to share their practice-base research and interest in our hub meetings.
Based in Chelsea College of Art and Design, TrAIN is a UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, a forum for historical, theoretical and practice-based research in architecture, art, communication, craft and design. http://www.transnational.org.
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