This talk grows out of Lily Kong's fascination with Shaw Brothers, the Hong Kong–and Singapore–based Chinese film company whose media empire is a major powerhouse in contemporary Asia.  The Shaw Brothers' contributions to the film industry and beyond open up a multitude of issues about globalization and cultural industries, foregrounding the production of economies, the creation of meanings and the defiance of dichotomies.  Here, Kong suggestions an agenda for research in the Asian culture industry which goes beyond the focus that has hitherto dominated Third World Cinema–that of the nation-state.

Hosted by: Department of History, Unit for Cinema Studies

In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Asian American Studies Program, Asian American Studies Program, Center for Democracy in a Multiracial Society, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Geography, Humanities in a Globalizing World Initiative, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Mellon Humanities Initiative, Office of the Chancellor