Book Launch: THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ASIAN CINEMAS

PRESENTED BY THE ASIAN FILM & MEDIA INITIATIVE (AFMI), NYU

JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2024

5.15pm-6.30pm

Performance Studies Studio, 6th Floor, Tisch School of the Arts (721 Broadway)

Followed by reception

Asian cinema studies has rapidly expanded under the impact of globalization, compounded by the resurgence of varied nationalisms, resistance movements, and the affordances of digital media. Differentiated experiences of climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic have further heightened interest in local politics and cultural activism, newer media and the digital everyday, and a renewed geopolitical divide between East and West and between North and South. A new “companion” to Asian cinemas therefore feels necessary and urgent in these times. This collaborative volume takes up emerging questions in the field to weave a model for a “trans-Asian” film studies that is cognizant of the durability of the nation state as well as alternative models of situated multiscalar ideas of place and belonging.

SPEAKERS (editors and contributors)

TEJASWINI GANTI (NYU)

JINYING LI (BROWN)

DEBASHREE MUKHERJEE (COLUMBIA)

ALEXANDER ZAHLTEN (HARVARD)

ZHEN ZHANG (NYU)

SPECIAL GUESTS

THOMAS LOOSE (NYU)

SAMUEL JAMIER (NEW YORK ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL)

CO-SPONSORED BY

THE MARTIN SCORSESE DEPARTMENT OF CINEMA STUDIES, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

THE DEPARTMENT OF MIDDLE EASTERN, SOUTH ASIAN, AND AFRICAN STUDIES (MESAAS) AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

This is an in-person event, open to the public. Prior registration is required at least 24 hours before the start of the event. Non-NYU attendees will receive emailed instructions for building access and may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID upon arrival. NYU attendees must present their NYU ID.

Host or Publisher NYU Department of Cinema Studies