Chinese Cinema at 100

In conjunction with a recently completed book manuscript entitled Chinese Film at 100: Art, Politics and Commerce, edited by Zhu Ying and Stanley Rosen, this conference will bring together many of the contributors to that volume, as well as other leading specialists on Chinese film. Broad topics to be addressed include the Chinese Film Industry and its Local and Global Market; Film Art: Genre and Authorship; Film Culture and Film Discourse; and Previously Underrepresented and Emerging Topics.

Since the conference will address not only the aesthetics of Chinese film, but also examine commerce and politics, in addition to academic panels there will be panels and roundtables which include filmmakers and film executives from China and Hollywood. One such panel will bring together practitioners based in Hollywood, particularly those originally from China, who will discuss their experiences in marketing their films to China. A parallel panel will include practitioners from China, who will discuss their experiences in marketing their films both in China and overseas.


THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2008
 
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Reception | USC East Asian Studies Center (College House, CLH 101)

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: SCREENING -- Blind Shaft | USC George Lucas Building, Room 108

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Q&A with Director Li Yang | Moderated by Michael Berry (LUCAS 108)
 
FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2008
 
9:00 am - 10:45 am: PANEL -- FILM ART AND FILM CULTURE | USC Davidson Conference Center | Chair: Paul PICKOWICZ

Panelists will include: Zhu Ying, "New Year Film as Chinese Blockbuster: From Feng Xiaogang's Contemporary Urban Comedy to Zhang Yimou's Period Drama"; Cui Shuqin, "Boundary Shifting: New-generation Filmmaking and Jia Zhangke's Films"; Stephen Teo, "The Martial Arts Film in Chinese Cinema: Historicism and the National"; Paul Clark, "The Triumph of Cinema: Chinese Film Culture from the 1960s to the 1980s"; Chen Xihe : "Red Theories, Blue Theories, and Beyond: The Evolution of Cinema Studies and Theories in Mainland China"

10:45 am - 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am - 12:15 pm: PANEL -- PREVIOUSLY UNDERREPRESENTED AND EMERGING TOPICS | USC Davidson Conference Center | Chair: Sheldon LU

Panelists will include: John Lent and Xu Ying, "Chinese Animation Film: From Experimentation to Digitalization"; Qin Liyan, "Transmedia Strategies of Appropriation and Visualization: The Case of Zhang Yimou’s Adaptation of Novels in His Early Films"; Zhang Yingjin : "Of Institutional Supervision and Individual Subjectivity: The History and Current State of Chinese Documentary"

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch Break

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm: PANEL -- FILM INDUSTRY AND ITS LOCAL AND GLOBAL MARKET | USC Davidson Conference Center | Chair: Robert ROSEN

Panelists will include: Seio Nakajima and Zhu Ying, "Chinese Film as an Industry: One Hundred Years of Evolution"; Xiao Zhiwei, "The Reception of American Films in China, 1897-1950"; Stanley Rosen, "Chinese Cinema’s International Market"; Wang Shujen, "Film Piracy and the DVD/VCD Market: Contradictions and Paradoxes"

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: Opening Reception | University Club Banquet Room
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2008
 
9:30 am - 10:45 am: PANEL -- FILM INDUSTRY | USC Davidson Conference Center

Panelists will include: David Lee, founder, Leeding Media; Zhang Lihui, vice president, China Government Relations & Business Development, Warner Bros. Entertainment; Zhou Tiedong, president, China Film Promotion International; Song Dai, chairman and general manager, Sil-Metropole Organisation, Ltd., Hong Kong

10:45 am - 11:00 am: Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm: PANEL -- FILMMAKER PERSPECTIVES | USC Davidson Conference Center

Panelists will include: FENG Xiaogang, Film Director; LI Yang, Film Director; Vivian WU, Actress & Film Producer

12:30 pm - 2:30 pm: Lunch Break

3:00 pm - 5:15 pm: SCREENING -- The Banquet | USC Norris Cinema Theatre

5:15 pm - 6:15 pm: Reception | Queen's Courtyard

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm: SCREENING -- The Assembly | USC Norris Cinema Theatre

8:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Q&A with Director Feng Xiaogang | Moderated by Zhu Ying (Norris Cinema)


This conference is made possible through a generous grant from the Freeman Foundation.

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For more information, please visit the official Web site.

Contact Information:

Grace Ryu
213.740.2991
eascrsvp@usc.edu