Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film

'Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film' is an inter-institutional project organized by postgraduate students at the universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York through the Mixed Cinema Network and beyond. Our aim is to propose alternative approaches to Japanese cinema, moving beyond East-West binary oppositions, thus encouraging the exploration of new and exciting critical avenues.

The all-day symposium will be held at the ICS Cinema (Clothworkers North Building LT 2.31), University of Leeds, on November 6th 2010. The event will include presentations under panels entitled 'Japanese Cinema Within and Beyond the Nation', 'Interdisciplinary and Intertextuality in Japanese Cinema', 'Questions of Gender in Japanese Film', and 'Receptions of Japanese Films Home and Abroad' and a keynote speech by the acclaimed critic and programmer of East Asian cinema, Tony Rayns. The symposium will also include an in-depth discussion between Tony Rayns, Jasper Sharp (www.jaspersharp.com) and Tom Vincent (Bradford International Film Festival) on programming Japanese cinema at international film festivals.

The symposium will be followed by a screening of Children of the Beehive (Shimizu, 1948), courtesy of Zipangu Fest (www.zipangufest.com), which will be introduced by Tony Rayns.

The event is FREE. Please e-mail us at bbconf2010@googlemail.com to register as spaces are limitd.

The event is funded by WUN (Worldwide Universities Network) and organised as part of the 24th Leeds International Film Festival (www.leedsfilm.com).

Please see e-mail us at bbconf2010@googlemail.com if you have any questions.

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