WE ARE PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A BOOK LAUNCH FOR
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ASIAN CINEMAS
EDITED BY ZHEN ZHANG, SANGJOON LEE, DEBASHREE MUKHERJEE, & INTAN PARAMADITHA
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.