Pre-Conference Event on 20th December and film screening on 21st December/ 20TH December: Bangalore Launch of Ravi Vasudevan's new book, The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (Permanent Black, 2010)/

Pre-Conference Event on 20th December and film screening on 21st December:

20TH December: Bangalore Launch of Ravi Vasudevan's new book, The Melodramatic Public: Film Form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema (Permanent Black, 2010)

South India premier screening of the film, Sthaniya Sambaad (Dir: Moinak Biswas and Arjun Gourisaria, Bengali, 105 min, 2009) followed by an interaction with the directors. 

21ST DECEMBER: All India premier screening the film, Viewfinder (Dir: Kim Soyoung, Korean, 94 min, 2009) followed by an interaction with the director.

Please find attached the conference schedule and poster invite with this mail and do visit the conference website for more details: http://asiancultureindustries.org/

Asian Culture Industries Conference 21st and 22nd December, 2010.
Organized by the CIDASIA Research Programme, Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS),
Bangalore.
Monday 20th December
Pre-conference Event – Book Launch and South India Premier
15:00 – 15:10
Welcome
15:10 – 17:10
Bangalore Book Launch and Discussion – Ravi Vasudevan, The Melodramatic Public:
Film form and Spectatorship in Indian Cinema, Permanent Black, 2010.
17:10 – 19:10
South India Premier and Discussion, Sthaniya Sambaad (Bengali, 105 min, 2009) by
Moinak Biswas and Arjun Gourisaria.
19:10 – 21:00
Dinner
Tuesday 21st December
09:20 – 09:35
Keynote and Welcome
Session 1 : Gaming and Animation
09:40 – 10:05
Anthony Fung – Cultural Clusters and Game Industries in China
10:05 – 10:30
Mathew M Chew – Exploring the Culture of 'Free to play' Online Games
10:30 – 10:55
Ruchi Jaggi – Japanese Animation Programming in Indian Television
10:55 – 11:30
Discussion
11:30 – 11:45
Coffee Break
Session 2: Korean Wave in India
11:45 – 12:10
Pranta Partik Patnaik – Locating the 'local' in localisation: A study of television
in Orissa.
12:10 – 12:35
Neikolie Kuotsu – Circuits of Piracy: Encounters with Korean wave in 'Northern
India'.
12:35 – 13:00
Naorem Thoinu Devi – Hallyu: The Korean wave in Manipur
13:00 – 13:30
Discussion
13:30 – 14:30
Lunch Break
Session 3: Trans-Asian Cultural Flows [Part 1]
14:30 – 14:55
Earl Jackson – Boys [Bent] Over Dollars: Libidinal Economics in Trans-asian
Cultural Exchange Networks
14:55 – 15:20
Ya Chiung, Lin – Political Aspects of Korean Cultural Fad from 2000-2009 in
Taiwan
15:20 – 15:45
Discussion
15:45 – 16:15
Coffee Break
Session 4: All India Premeir of Viewfinder and Discussion
16:15 – 19:00
Viewfinder (Korean, 94 min, 2009) by Kim Soyoung.
Discussant: Earl Jackson
19:00– 20:30
Dinner
Wednesday 22nd December
09:15 – 09:30
Coffee
Session 5: Trans-Asian Cultural Flows [Part 2]
09:30 – 09:55
Viriya Swangchot – Consuming J-Pop and Cosplay Culture in Thailand
09:55 – 10:20
SV Srinivas – Rajnikant in Japan.
10:20 – 10:45
Anjali Roy – The Distribution and Circulation of Indian Films in Singapore.
10:45 – 11:15
Discussion
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
Session 6: Celluloid and After
11:30 – 11:55
Adrian Athique and Douglass Hill – The Cultural Economy of Leisure in India
11:55 – 12:20
Kim Soyoung – Cultural Impenetrability and Historicity
12:20 – 12:45
Ashish Rajadhyaksha – Hyperstardom
12:45 – 13:15
Discussion
13:15 – 14:15
Lunch Break
Session 7: Entertainment Industries in Japan
15:30 – 15:55 Kukhee Choo – Japan's Soft power Industry in the 21st Century
  15:55 – 16:25 Nissim Otmazgin – Japan's Regional Cultural policy from a Historical
                   Perspective
                  Yoshiharu Tezuka – 'Introducing' Cosmopolitanization and Screen Industry:
                   Japanese Cinema from Rashomon to J-Horrors and Thereafter.
                  Takako Inoue – What is world music? The Japanese perception and its practice.
                   Discussion
16:25 – 16:40 Coffee Break and Farewell
18:30 – 20:30 Dinner
14:15 – 14:40
14:40 – 15:05
15:05 – 15:30

Venue:
No 827, 29th Main Road, Poornaprajna HBCS Layout,
Uttarahalli, Bangalore - 560061, India
91-80-26423266/67/68 (landline)
91-80-26423002 (fax)
Website: www.cscsarchive.org
www.asiancultureindustries.org