For whom lives around the Bay Area, Asian Pop Culture session in PCA/ACA 2008 may be interesting. I will summarize the schedule of Asian Pop Culture session. Besides, there are other sessions of film, comics, horror, game, Stephen King, Arthurian, Rock and Roll, Urban folklore and so on. So you can check the website by yourself. The Conference is held at SF Marriott Hotel.
John A. Lent, the chair of this session, publishes two Journals - Asian Cinema and International Journal of Comic Art. Whoever is interested in this topic can check it out.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2008
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
020 Asian Popular Culture I: Asian Literature: Historical and Contemporary Dimensions
Chair: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art
The River That Heals Itself Heals the People: River Ganges in India,
Regina Coragliotti
The Trick of Identity: Transformation in Gene Yang¡¯s Graphic Novel American Born Chinese
Johnson Cheu, Michigan State University
Bridge or Canary? The Puzzling Case of Du Fu
Bryce Christensen, Southern Utah University
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
No Asian Popular Culture Session
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
070 Asian Popular Culture II: Korean Film at Home and Abroad
Chair: John A. Lent, Asian Cinema
Korean Wave in Movies: A Case of ¡°Host¡± in Asia and Beyond
Jai B. Kim, Stanford University and Sungkyunkwan University;
J. H. Ryoo, Sungkyunkwan University;
Gyong Koo, Korea Cultural Content Agency
South Korea¡¯s Film Dilemma in the U.S. Market: ¡°Copywood¡± or Asian New Wave? -- Case Study of Dragon Wars and The Host
HaeLim Suh, Southern Illinois University
Allegory of Class Struggle in Park Chan-Wook¡¯s Vengeance Trilogy
Noh Kwang-Woo, Southern Illinois University
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
Asian Popular Culture III: Korean Manhwa and ¡°Documentary¡± Film
Chair: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art
Manhwa, the Korean Comics: Its Stagnation and Attempts To Survive as a Cultural Industry
Daeyoung Kim, Southern Illinois University
¡°To Be or Not To Be, That Is the Question¡±: What Is Happening with Korean Comics (Manhwa) Today?
Sueen Noh, Temple University
Memory, Ideology, and the Korean War: A Textual Analysis of the Documentary, ¡°A State of Mind¡±
Suhi Choi, University of Utah
Kwangju Uprising Represented in Korean Films -- Analyzing A Petal (1996) and May 18 (2007)
Chun-Hyo, Kim, Southern Illinois University
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/2008/march19.phpTHURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
095 Asian Popular Culture IV: Manga and Anime: Japan and Abroad
Chair: Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy
Shoujo Manga (Japanese Comics for Girls) Style as a Transcultural Form: Decentering Japan and Displacing the West
Fusami Ogi, Chikushi Jogakuen University (Japan)
Homegrown Shōjo Manga and Germany¡¯s ¡°Forty-Niners¡±
Paul M. Malone, University of Waterloo.
Transnational Circulation of Manga and Anime and Cultural Creolization: Reception, Absorption and Glocalized Reinterpretation of a Foreign Imagination in Italy
Marco Pellitteri, Trento University (Italy)
Bishie Love, for the Love of Bishies: Changing Understandings of Gender and Sexuality in Anime and Manga Fandom
Antonia Levi
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
120 Asian Popular Culture V: A Potpourri: Zen, Olympics, Starbucks, Arab Entertainment
Chair: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art
The ¡°Zen Boom¡± of the Late 1950s
Meghan Warner, University of Iowa
The People¡¯s Games: Civilizing Beijing before the Olympics
Fabio Lanza, Harvard University
Starbucks vs. Forbidden City: How To Maintain Chinese Culture in the Age of Globalization
Boyu Liu, Auburn University
Manifestations of Early Arab Popular Entertainment
Aziz H. Alabdullah, Kuwait University
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C1 (63¡¯6¡± X 36¡¯6¡±)
144 Film IX: Cinematic Hong Kong & Taiwan
Chair: Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico
¡°A Fight Over Identity: Study on the Tradition of Undercover Culture in the Infernal Affairs Series¡±
Nian Ji, University of Arizona
¡°The Postmetropolis and Mental Life: Wong Kar-Wai¡¯s Cinematic Hong Kong¡±
Christoph Lindner, Northern Illinois University
¡°From the Kung Fu Master to the Chinese Warrior Princess: Fashioning Narrative and Womanhood Through Movement¡±
Melisa Reddick, Florida State University
¡°Zhang Yimou¡¯s Methods for Defusing the Appeal of Violence in Hero (2002), House of Flying Daggers (2004), and Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)¡±
Dennis Rothermel, California State University, Chico
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
145 Asian Popular Culture VI: Japanese Cartoons and Art: Historical Dimensions
Chair: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art
Manga Culture and the Kibyōshi
Adam L. Kern, Harvard University
"The Whimsical Sketches of Katsushika Hokusai: Manga Master."
Deborah Ford, Dickinson State University
Japanese Wartime Cartoon Leaflets
John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art
Takashi Murakami¡¯s Little Boy ¡¦ Exhibit, Japanese Visual Culture and Post-World War II ¡°Victimization¡±
Steven C. Rockoff, Denison University
2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
170 Asian Popular Culture VII: Anime and Manga: Issues of Power and Identity
Chair: Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy
World Without Haragei: The Disintegration of Cultural Harmony in Abe & Ueda¡¯s Texhnolyze
Debbie Scally, University of Texas at Dallas
Anime Pleasure as a Playground of Power, Resistance, and Sexuality
Lien Fan Shen, University of Utah
It¡¯s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses an Eye: CLAMP and Their Three American Publishers
Stacy Rue, Bowling Green State University
The Manga Phenomenon in America
Wendy Goldberg, United States Coast Guard Academy
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
No Asian Popular Culture Session
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
020 Asian Popular Culture VIII: Chinese Nightclubs with Live Performance
Chairs: Trina Robbins and John A. Lent
Forbidden City: The Golden Age of Chinese Nightclubs
Trina Robbins, independent scholar
Performance by Grant Avenue Follies.
Grant Avenue Follies is a non-profit dance troupe of senior Chinese-American ladies who perform free for hospitals, senior centers, community centers, and veterans groups. Pat Chin, Cynthia Yee, Isabelle Louie, and Ivy Tam danced in the Chinese nightclubs in the late 1950s and early 1960s. They have talent, style, and great legs, and are proof that you¡¯re never too old to rock them in the aisles. If singer Gayle Chan is available, she will introduce their number and sing ¡°Grant Avenue.¡±
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/2008/march20.phpFRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2008
No Asian Popular Culture Session
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2008
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon A2 (55¡¯ X 41¡¯)
339 Asian Popular Culture IX: Cinema of India, Japan, Pakistan, Taiwan
Chair: John A. Lent, Asian Cinema Studies Society
Bollywoodizing Diasporas: Negotiations of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in the 21st Century
Pulkit Datta, Miami (Ohio) University
Gojira vs. Godzilla: War, Nukes, and Responsibility
Jon C. Gordon, University of Findlay
For the sake of God: Religion, militancy and identity in Pakistani cinema
Satarupa Dasgupta, Temple University
Award Winning Films and a Dying Film Industry: The Taiwan Film Policy in Flux
Yu-Hui Tai, Southern Illinois University
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
No Session
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Yerba Buena Salon 10/Salon 11 (76¡¯ X 45¡¯2¡±)
383 Asian Popular Culture X: Chinese Film, Manhua (Cartoon)
Chair: Xu Ying, International Journal of Comic Art
Subject or Subject to?: Lesbianism, The Chinese Botanist¡¯s Daughters, and the Chinese Film Industry
Jing Guo, Miami (Ohio) University
Watching Wuxia in the U.S.: Americans¡¯ Perceptions of Hero and House of Flying Daggers
Ying Huang, Southern Illinois University
The Frog Group: A Rural Chinese Cartoon Collective
Xu Ying, International Journal of Comic Art
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
No session
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Golden Gate Hall Salon C2 (63¡¯6¡± X 41¡¯)
445 Asian Popular Culture XI: Anime and Gaming
Chair: John A. Lent, International Journal of Comic Art
Heroines in Three Satoshi Kon Animated Films
Joseph Christopher Schaub, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
Depictions of America in Japanese Anime
Angela Drummond-Mathews, Paul Quinn College
Sprite Fight: How the Street Fighter II Characters Provided Archetypes for Early Fighting Games
Trystram Spiro-Costello, Temple University
http://www.pcaaca.org/conference/2008/march22.php