Fall
2003 Special Event
“GLOBAL/LOCAL/EXOTIC: Transnational Production and Auto-Ethnography”
symposium
October 31, 2003, Friday 1:30 PM
East West Center, John A. Burns Hall, room 2121/2125
Asian Cities, Asian
Cinemas
Ackbar Abbas is renowned for his work on the uniquely
vibrant and poignant culture of Hong Kong, including its cinema. His wit,
elegance, and insight have appeared in numerous essay and his celebrated book,
Hong Kong: Culture and the Politics of Disappearance (Minnesota UP, 1997). They
have decisively challenged our understanding of the postmodern urban condition
Hong Kong and other cities by demonstrating that the postcolonial experience
lies at its heart. In this talk,
Abbas intervenes in the raging debates about globalism and globalization explore
how they reconfigure the exotic from the other to "the
unknown-within-the-known" a how this can be traced in Asian cinema.
For further details: http://www.asianfilms.org
Co-sponsored
by:
The UHM/EWC International Cultural Studies Certificate Program, the University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa,
the Hawaii International Film Festival, and the Asia Pacific Media Center,
Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California
Telephone
808-944-7585 Fax:
808-944-7070 email:
culture@hawaii.edu