I’m pleased to announce that we have now confirmed two guest speakers for the Post Olympics Chinese Cinema Symposium.
Our first keynote is Dr. Victor Fan from King’s College London and the second speaker is Dr. Gary Bettinson from Lancaster University. Both have been researching current trends in Chinese and Hong Kong cinemas, and we are very pleased to have their contributions to the 2013 POCCS conference.
Below is the biographical information for the two speakers:
Victor Fan is Lecturer at the Department of Film Studies, King’s College London. He was Assistant Professor at the Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the Film Studies Program and the Comparative Literature Department of Yale University, and an MFA in Film and Television Productions at School of Cinema-Television, University of Southern California. His articles have been published in World Picture Journal, Camera Obscura, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Screen, Film History: An International Journal, CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, the anthology A Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder (ed. Brigitte Peucker) and film magazine 24 Images: Cinéma, etc. He is also a contributor to the communal blog Printculture. He has recently completed his book manuscript titled Approaching Reality: Potentiality in Chinese Film Theory. In addition, Fan is also a filmmaker, composer and theater director. His film The Well was an official selection of the São Paolo International Film Festival; it was also screened at the Anthology Film Archives, the Japan Society and the George Eastman House.
Gary Bettinson is Lecturer in Film Studies at Lancaster University. His research on Chinese cinema has appeared in Asian Cinema, Journal of Chinese Cinemas, Post Script, and the anthology Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (edited by Warren Buckland, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009). He is Editor-in-Chief (with Tan See Kam) of Asian Cinema, Editor of the Directory of World Cinema: China (Intellect, 2012), and author (with Richard Rushton) of What is Film Theory? An Introduction to Contemporary Debates (McGraw-Hill 2010). He is Vice Chair of the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS).
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