Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema: The 2020 Symposium
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Taiwan’s Lost Commercial Cinema: Recovered and Restored
2020 Edition
The Symposium
Date: Saturday 8 February 2020
Venue: The Anatomy Museum, 6th Floor, King’s Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London
Schedule:
10.00 – 10:15 Registration
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome (Dr. Chen Pin-Chuan, Director of the Cultural Division, Taipei Representative Office in the UK).
Session 1:
10:30 – 11:10: Professor Ru-Shou Robert Chen (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) “Female solidarity as an implicit social revolt in Lin Tuan-Chiu’s movies”
11:10 – 11:50: Dr. Corrado Neri (Jean Moulin University, Lyon 3) “May 13th: On melodrama, singsongs girls and crooks”
11:50 – 12:30: Dr. Ming-Yeh T. Rawnsley (Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London & Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan) “Changing representation of masculinity from the Taiwanese-language cinema to Health Realism and military films: A case study of Ke Junxiong”
Lunch break: 12:30 – 13:30
Session 2:
13:30 – 14:10: Professor Ta-wei Chi (National Chengchi University), “Shaping the Unshapely: Disabilities in Taiyupian Classics from the 1960s.”
14:10 – 14:40: Professor Chris Berry (King’s College London), “Taiwanese-Language Cinema as Cold War Cinema”
Tea & Coffee Break: 14:40—15:10
15:10 – 16:00: Roundtable on Restoring and Curating Taiwanese-Language Cinema Today
Participants: Dr. Chen Pin-Chuan, (Director of the Cultural Division, Taipei Representative Office in the UK, former Director of the Taiwan Film Institute); Dr. Wafa Ghermani (Cinémathèque Française); Dr. Ming-Yeh Rawnsley (Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London & Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Chair: Professor Chris Berry
16:00 – 16:30 Closing Discussion
Friday Evening Screening (Safra Lecture Theatre, Ground Floor, King’s Building, KCL) 7th of February
19:30 The Rice Dumpling Vendors (dir. Xin Qi, 1969, 84 mins), and Binding (dir.Chen Ting-Ning, 2019, 23 mins)
Saturday Evening Screening (Anatomy Lecture Theatre, 6th Floor, King’s Building, KCL) 8th of February
19:30 Tarzan and the Treasure (dir. Liang Zhe-fu, 1965, 83 mins).
