Wanted: a research assistant for a film project on Exploitation Cinema in the Philippines

Wanted: a research assistant for a film related project.

Topic: Exploitation Cinema in the Philippines.

We are doing a research project that compares exploitation cinema of the Philippines (1960s-1980s) with that made in Indonesia (1970s-1990s) under authoritarian government. We are exploring the parallels and connections between the two industries as well as the differences. Researchers are Dr. Thomas Barker (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus) and Ekky Imanjaya (University of East Anglia/Bina Nusantara University).

A representative list of Filipino titles we are interested in can be found here: http://imdb.filim2.site/list/ls003478019

We need assistance to:

1. Find information in Filipino sources that discuss exploitation production in the Philippines. E.g. how it was framed and discussed in relation to 'mainstream' film production; the presence of American producers/talents; morality and film content; relationship to the Marcos regime; interviews with filmmakers; and other topics.

2. What connections (if any) between Philippines production and Indonesia? Focus on the 1982 Manila Film Festival Market; and other connections e.g. talent, capital, inspiration, genre, themes, etc.

3. Details of any Indonesian films distributed/screened in the Philippines.

4. Details of government support for 'exploitation' films.

Work scope:

Research and collect relevant materials - newspaper articles, archival materials, films.

Provide written summary of key texts, events, and information.

Arrange interviews with relevant figures.

Assist and accompany Researcher to conduct interviews (one week in September/October)

Requirements:

Able to work independently

Attention to detail

Bilingual (Tagalog and English)

Preferable: Prior experience/knowledge of Filipino cinema.

Work period: 3 months (August 15 to Nov 15)

Payment: at prevailing RA rates.

Please send cover letter with CV to Thomas.Barker@nottingham.edu.my and E.Imanjaya@uea.ac.uk by August 10.

PhD Studentship: HORROR AND EXPLOITATION CINEMA BEYOND THE NATIONAL

FYI,

Dear colleagues,

With apologies for cross-posting, please see below for information about a PhD studentship at Northumbria University:HORROR AND EXPLOITATION CINEMA BEYOND THE NATIONAL.

The deadline for applicants is 20 January 2017, with a prospective start date of 2 October 2017.

The project is being considered for studentship funding in competition with other projects, available to applicants worldwide. The studentship includes a full stipend, paid for three years at RCUK rates for 2017/18 (this is yet to be set, in 2016/17 this is £14,296 pa) and fees (Home/EU £4,350 / International £13,000 / International Lab-based £16,000). Additionally, as Northumbria celebrates its 25th anniversary as a University and in line with our international outlook, some projects may also be offered to students from outside of the EU supported by a half-fee reduction.

Project Description

It has been commonplace within film scholarship to examine different horror and exploitation films principally in relation to their “primary country of production”. While a number of scholars have sought to rectify this issue by examining specific films in relation to a range of “transnational” elements, more needs to be done if we are to fully understand the ways that different horror and exploitation films (or their makers) have a) historically challenged notions of “the national” and b) still continue to do so to this day.
 It is the aim of this project to investigate horror and/or exploitation cinema in relation to more broader, cross-cultural and transnational factors, including the content of specific films themselves (i.e. the presence of various cultural inflections), and/or issues concerning contexts of production, distribution and exhibition. We are interested in receiving applications which address any historical context, from the beginnings of cinema to the present.

Possible topics include, but are by no means limited to, the following: 

·         Transnational cultural inflections within specific horror and/or exploitation films 

·         Industrial concerns such as production (including the phenomenon of the co-production), distribution and exhibition contexts. 

·         Horror/exploitation films beyond the West, e.g. from Asia, Africa. 

·         The marketing of “national” horror/exploitation films in other countries, e.g. the transnational distribution trajectories of “British” horror films in Europe, etc. 

·         Transnational horror/exploitation film cycles

·         Transnational horror/exploitation remakes and sequels

·         How new technologies have facilitated transnational processes (VHS, DVD, VoD, camcorders)

Based in the Department of Social Sciences, this PhD studentship builds upon the extensive research into horror and exploitation cinema already undertaken at Northumbria University. The department also houses the Popular Film and Television Collection, which includes film-related items ranging from trade magazines and production notes to promotional materials. The successful candidate will have full access to this material.

Eligibility and How to Apply

Please note eligibility requirement: 

·         Academic excellence of the proposed student i.e. 2:1 (or equivalent GPA from non-UK universities [preference for 1st class honours]); or a Masters (preference for Merit or above); or APEL evidence of substantial practitioner achievement. 

·         Appropriate IELTS score, if required. 

For further details of how to apply, entry requirements and the application form, see
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/research/postgraduate-research-degrees/how-to-apply/

Please ensure you quote the advert reference above on your application form.

Deadline for applications: 20 January 2017
 Start Date: 2 October 2017

Northumbria University is an equal opportunities provider and in welcoming applications for studentships from all sectors of the community we strongly encourage applications from women and under-represented groups.

Informal enquires can be directed to johnny.walker@northumbria.ac.uk

Best wishes

Johnny

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Dr Johnny Walker

Senior Lecturer in Media

Erasmus Lead

Department of Social Sciences and Languages

Northumbria University, Lipman 403b

Tel. (+ 44) 191 227 3920

Book out now: Contemporary British Horror Cinema

Founding co-editor of Global Exploitation Cinemas

Web. http://johnny-walker.org

  

Call for Papers: Symposium: Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century

*Canterbury Christ Church University*

*Symposium: Exploitation Cinema in the 21^st Century.*

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*Event Date: June 9^th 2017*

*Deadline for proposals: 3^rd March 2017*

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*Keynote Speaker: Dr Johnny Walker, Northumbria University*


In relation to cinema, the term “exploitation” has been adopted by various individuals and institutions over time, from opportunistic film producers and marketers of the 1920s to contemporary online distributors releasing new films in the 21^st century. There is a current wave of exciting and productive scholarship on the historical developments of exploitation cinema, and its famous, and not so famous, films and filmmakers. But much of this research focuses on exploitation before the year 2000, with a particular focus up to and including the VHS era of the 1980s. Less research exists on the inflections of exploitation in the 21^st century, and the trends and developments that have taken place since the turn of the century. This one-day symposium seeks to shed new light on the embodiments of exploitation cinema since 2000, with particular emphasis on current waves and cycles, the way in which they are now consumed (such as online rather than in theatres), and which particular exploitation filmmakers stand out as being important in contemporary times.

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*Topics might include (but are not limited to);*

  * Analysis of single films
  * Studies of current waves or cycles of exploitation
  * Exploitation cinema from global national contexts (in particular
    from non-English speaking countries)
  * The re-emergence of old cycles since 2000 (Rape-Revenge, the Biker
    movie, etc.)
  * Individual filmmakers
  * New genres, sub-genres, and hybrids
  * High budget exploitation (such as that produced by Quentin Tarantino
    and Robert Rodriguez)
  * Patterns of exhibition and distribution
  * Studies of industrial models or modes
  * Exploitation studios (The Asylum etc.)
  * Exploitation online
  * Exploitation fandom and audiences

We invite proposals of up to *300 words* for *20 minute papers*, plus a short bio (up to 150 words) by *March 3^rd 2017*.


We also welcome video essays to be submitted with a 300 word proposal/150 word bio, sent to us by *March 3^rd 2017*. Final video submissions should be sent by *June 2^nd 2017* via Vimeo link. Video submissions should aim to be 10 minutes maximum running time.

All proposal (and any queries) should be sent to *Dr James Newton* at james.newton@canterbury.ac.uk<mailto:james.newton@canterbury.ac.uk>

SOUTHEAST ASIAN CULT CINEMA DOUBLE BILL: LADY TERMINATOR & THE KILLING OF SATAN

FYI, I am co-organizing this event. If you are around, please do come! :)

Scalarama's  Asian Cult Cinema Double Bill: Indonesia's Lady Terminator and The Philippines' The Killing of Satan (in 35mm!) , Cube Microplex, Bristol, Saturday 10 September, 19.00.
And a discussion session with Mondo Macabro's Pete Tombs 

Tickets: £7 / 6 (conc)

A mind bending double bill of South East Asian cult lunacy!

Indonesia’s “Lady Terminator” combines the folktale of legendary Javanese South Sea Queen and James Cameron’s Terminator.

“The Killing of Satan” is a wild Filipino fantasy horror film, about a man who fights Satan to rescue his daughter. Screened in 35mm format!

Link to Scalarama's event:  here

On Lady Terminator: Interview with Barbara Anne Constable by Andrew Leavold: here. 

Trailer of "Global Exploitation Cinema Conference, Lincoln, May 2015

The Special Issue is Out! "The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies"

Plaridel  Journal, Special Issue, Vol 11, Issue No. 2, 2014.

Guest Editor: Ekky Imanjaya

(PhD Candidate, University of East Anglia, UK;

faculty member, school of Film, Binus International, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)

Front cover: http://www.plarideljournal.org/author/ekky-imanjaya  

Table of Content: http://plarideljournal.org/article/table-contents-0

1.      A Note from the Editor : The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation,  and B-Movies

By Ekky Imanjaya (guest editor; PhD Candidate, University of East Anglia;  Lecturer, Bina Nusantara University)  http://plarideljournal.org/article/significance-indonesian-cult-exploitation-and-b-movies

2.      Exploiting Indonesia: From “Primitives” to “Outraged Fugitives”

By Thomas Barker (Assistant Professor of Film and Television,  the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/exploiting-indonesia-primitives-outraged-fugitives

3.              The Raiding Dutchmen: Colonial stereotypes, identity and Islam in Indonesian B-movies

By Eric Sasono  (postgraduate student at Film Studies Department, King’s College, London)

 http://plarideljournal.org/article/raiding-dutchmen-colonial-stereotypes-identity-and-islam-indonesian-b-movies

4.      The Earth is Getting Hotter: Urban Inferno and Outsider Women’s Collectives in Bumi Makin Panas

By Dag Yngvesson (PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/earth-getting-hotter-urban-inferno-and-outsider-women%E2%80%99s-collectives-bumi-makin-panas

5.       Challenging New Order’s Gender Ideology in Benyamin Sueb’s Betty Bencong Slebor: A Queer Reading

By Maimunah Munir (doctoral program student , South East Asian Studies, the University of Sydney,  Australia)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/challenging-new-order%E2%80%99s-gender-ideology-benyamin-sueb%E2%80%99s-betty-bencong-slebor-queer-reading-0

6.      Genre versus Local Specificity: Configuring Rangda and Durga in Balinese and Bengali Films

By Makbul Mubarak  (Lecturer, Universitas Multimedia Nusantara)—coming soon.

Abstract:

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/genre-versus-local-specificity-configuring-rangda-and-durga-balinese-and-bengali-films

7.      Beneath Still Waters: Brian Yuzna and the Transnational Indonesian Terror Text

By Xavier Mendik  (Associate Head in the School of Art, Media and Design at the University of Brighton, Director of Cine-Excess International Film Festival

 http://plarideljournal.org/article/beneath-still-waters-brian-yuzna%E2%80%99s-ritual-return-indonesian-cinema

Documents:

1.      When East Meets West: American and Chinese influences on early Indonesian Action cinema

The List of Filmography of Early Indonesian Action Movies (1926-1941)

compiled by by Bastian Meiresonne (Asian movies specialist, director of Garuda Power: The Spirit Within)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/when-east-meets-west-american-and-chinese-influences-early-indonesian-action-cinema-list

2.      On Lady Terminator

Interview with Barbara Anne Constable

By Andrew Leavold (Ph.D. candidate, Griffith University, director of “The Search for Weng Weng”)

http://plarideljournal.org/article/lady-terminator-interview-barbara-anne-constable

3.      Beneath Still Waters: The Brian Yuzna Interview http://plarideljournal.org/article/beneath-still-waters-brian-yuzna-interview

By Xavier Mendik

4.      Scripting an Indonesian Monster: The John Penney Interview:   http://plarideljournal.org/article/scripting-indonesian-monster-john-penney-interview

By Xavier Mendik  

Next Destination: Global Exploitation Cinemas Conference, May 2015

While preparing myself for SCMS (in 11 days!), I got great news about the my abstract for Global Exploitation Cinemas Conference in May 2015.

Alhamdulillah, I got accepted, but as individual abstract, not a panel. Ben Murtagh also got accepted.
So, see you there!

Here's the program.
Here's the list of the speakers.
What great program, and great presenters they have!

CFP: GLOBAL EXPLOITATION CINEMAS: HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL APPROACHES

FYI,

email from Johnny Walker:

I am so excited! 

Dear colleagues,

With apologies for cross-posting, please find below the CFP for “Global Exploitation Cinemas: Historical and Critical Approaches”, an academic conference and film event organised by the University of Lincoln (UK) in association with the forthcoming Bloomsbury book series of the same name.

The event will take place 28 and 29 May 2015 at the historic Ritz Cinema and Theatre.

University of Lincoln presents …

GLOBAL EXPLOITATION CINEMAS:

HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL APPROACHES

An academic conference and film event

The Ritz Cinema and Theatre, Lincoln (UK), 28 and 29 May 2015

CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Eric Schaefer (Emerson College, US) author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True! A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Duke University Press, 1999)

and editor of Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution (Duke University Press, 2014)
I. Q. Hunter (De Montfort University, UK)author of British Trash Cinema (BFI, 2012) and Cult Film as a Guide to Life (Bloomsbury, 2015).

The academy’s approach to film history has undergone a significant shift in the 21st century, with previously marginalised, despised and neglected aspects of popular film being afforded unprecedented levels of attention. This process of revaluation has occurred on a global scale, highlighting the development of rich and relatively uncharted alternative film cultures and histories, including those of "exploitation" films, and in turn enabling fresh empirical and critical methodologies.

The academic conference and film event "Global Exploitation Cinemas"—which is being funded by the University of Lincoln (UK) and is working in conjunction with the forthcoming Bloomsbury book series of the same name—aims to bring together an eclectic and diverse range of approaches to exploitation cinema, welcoming any perspective that adds to the burgeoning scholarship in this field of study. Proposals which emphasise the international dimensions of exploitation cinema are especially welcome, but the conference will remain broad and inclusive in considering topics for discussion.

Potential subjects and approaches include, but are by no means limited to:

• Critical reception and/or re-assessment
• Socio-historical dimensions and debates
• Form and aesthetics
• Global and transnational perspectives
• Sexploitation
• The pornographic feature film
• Media controversies and censorship
• Publicity and advertising
• Stardom
• Directors, writers and producers
• Movements, cycles and sub-genres
• Exhibition and distribution
• Geographies
• Restoration and re-appropriation
• Exploitation in the video age
• Nostalgia
• Publishing
• "Mainstream" infiltrations
• DVD documentaries/special features
• Festivals and conventions
• Ephemera and the collector
• The internet and participatory cultures
• Neo-exploitation in the 21st century

Abstracts (of around 300 words) and some brief biographical information (of around 50 words) should be sent no later than FRIDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2015 to the following email address: exploitationcinemaconference@gmail.com.

For more information about the event (and the book series) go to: http://globalexploitationcinemas.weebly.com. 

We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

Best wishes,

The organisers:

Shaun Kimber (Bournemouth University)
Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln)
Johnny Walker (Northumbria University)
Thomas Joseph Watson (Northumbria University)

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Dr Johnny Walker

Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University, Squires 101d

Tel. (+ 44) 191 227 3920

Founding co-editor of Global Exploitation Cinemas

Web. http://johnny-walker.org

The Cover of the forthcoming Plaridel Journal: on Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B-Movies

images: Lady Terminator and Jaka Sembung

The Cover of the forthcoming Plaridel Journal (Volume 11
Issue No. 2, 2014), special issue on The Significant of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies

Link:  http://www.plarideljournal.org/author/ekky-imanjaya . 

Sssst, I am the guest editor \m/ .

Coming soon: December 2014 

Sneak Peek: Table of Content & Abstracts of Plaridel special issue: "The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies"

The Bad, The Worse, and The Worst: The Significance of Indonesian Cult, Exploitation, and B Movies

Plaridel  Journal, Special Issue, Vol 11, Issue No. 2, 2014.

Guest Editor: 

Ekky Imanjaya 

(PhD Candidate, University of East Anglia, UK; 

faculty member, school of Film, Binus International, Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia)

Coming soon: December 18, 2014

Table of Content and Abstracts:

1.     The Significance of Indonesian Exploitation and Cult Cinema: An Introduction to Special Issue

By Ekky Imanjaya (guest editor; University of East Anglia and Binus Nusantara University)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/significance-indonesian-cult-exploitation-and-b-movies

cover: http://www.plarideljournal.org/author/ekky-imanjaya

2.     Exploiting Indonesia: From Primitives to Outraged Fugitives

By Thomas Barker (University of Nottingham Malaysia)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/exploiting-indonesia-primitives-outraged-fugitives

3.     The Raiding Dutchmen: The Dutch Stereotypes in Indonesian Action Movies

By Eric Sasono  (RumahFilm.org)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/raiding-dutchmen-colonial-stereotypes-identity-and-islam-indonesian-b-movies

4.       The Earth is Getting Hotter: Urban Inferno and Outsider Women’s Collectives in Bumi Makin Panas

By Dag Yngvesson (University of Minnesota)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/earth-getting-hotter-urban-inferno-and-outsider-women%E2%80%99s-collectives-bumi-makin-panas

5.        Challenging New Order’s Gender Ideology in Benyamin Sueb’s Betty Bencong Slebor: A Queer Reading

By Maimunah Munir (University of Airlangga)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/challenging-new-order%E2%80%99s-gender-ideology-benyamin-sueb%E2%80%99s-betty-bencong-slebor-queer-reading-0

6.       Genre versus Local Specificity: Configuring Rangda and Durga in Balinese and Bengali Films

By Makbul Mubarak  (Universitas Multimedia Nusantara)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/genre-versus-local-specificity-configuring-rangda-and-durga-balinese-and-bengali-films

7.       Beneath Still Waters: Brian Yuzna and the Transnational Indonesian Terror Text

By Xavier Mendik  (University of Brighton, Director of Cine-Excess Film Festival)

http://www.plarideljournal.org/article/beneath-still-waters-brian-yuzna-and-transnational-indonesian-terror-text

Documents

WHEN EAST MEETS WEST:

1.      American and Chinese influences on early Indonesian Action cinema

The List of Filmography of Early Indonesian Action Movies (1926-1941)

compiled by by Bastian Meiresonne

2.    On Lady Terminator

Interview with Barbara Anne Constable

By Andrew Leavold

3.     Beneath Still Waters: The Brian Yuzna Interview

By Xavier Mendik

4.     Scripting an Indonesian Monster: The John Penney Interview

By Xavier Mendik