Our 2020 edition brings 7 scholars together to present new research on Taiwanese-Language Cinema and a Roundtable on Restoration & Curation
ABOUT THIS EVENT
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
This screening is part of 'Taiyupian: Taiwan's Lost Commercial Cinema'
Did you know regular filmmaking on Taiwan only started in the 1950s? With a Taiwanese-language film industry? 1,000-plus Taiwanese-language features were made up to the 1970s. But the budgets were miniscule, the companies short-lived, and there was no archive. They were quickly forgotten, and only 200-plus survive. Now, Taiwan’s lost commercial cinema is being recovered and restored by the Taiwan Film Institute. Our 2020 edition follows the successful 2017 edition to bring 7 scholars together for a symposium at King’s College London on 8 February 2020, launching a screening tour of 7 newly restored and subtitled dramatic films and 4 contemporary short films
This event and tour are a collaboration between the Cultural Divsision of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK, Taiwan Film Institute, and Kings College London. For more information, visit Taiyupian.uk