Queer Asia: film, literature and (digital) media
- Submission status
- Open
- Submission deadline
This Collection seeks submissions about research on gender and sexual diversity in Asia, with a special focus on media (film, literature, TV, digital) culture.
Asian media and culture that feature non-normative representation, identity, desire and imagination have spread across inter-/intra-Asian, transnational, and transcultural boundaries. Due to digital mediums such as streaming video services, short-form video apps and music, there has been a rise in the popularity of Asian queer media that reaches audiences regionally and globally. Queer cinema, literature and media from Asia is re-shaping and re-positioning “queerness” and marginalised identities in a global cultural and media landscape. From classical homoerotic texts and contemporary fanfiction to trans characters in film and queer reality TV shows, the Collection seeks to showcase the richness and diversity of film, media and literature across Asia and the Asian diaspora, including the full spectrum of genres, styles, topics and cultural politics.
This Collection provides a forum for interdisciplinary analysis of queer narratives, identities, culture and imaginations, including:
- Evolution of queer literature or film or cinema in Asia
- Queer voices in different genres
- Queer representation and portrayal of queer characters, relationships, and experiences
- Role of film, literature and media in advocating for queer rights and social change
- Queer identities, experiences and journeys shaped by race, gender, class, disability
- Queer screen cultures in Asia; global impact of queer Asias on screen
- Exclusionary politics of representation in relation to gender, sexuality, ethnicity and class in film and TV
- Studying the transition of queer narratives from literature to other media (film, TV, digital platforms)
- Digitization of queer media (eg: web-based Asian movies and TV on streaming sites, mobile gaming)
- Queerness of media genres, formats, tropes that have dominated Asia (reality TV or melodramas or video-sharing)
- Transnational, transcultural, studies across Asia and Asian diaspora
- Translations of queer media across Asia
- Global dimension of queer Asian film, media, and literature
- Asian media and pop culture in global fan productions, media industries, and social activism
