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 From left: PhD. Student Richard Xu Xiaying, Prof. Tan See Kam, Senior Instructor Lei Chin Pang, and PhD Candidate Jiang Wei.

Prof. Tan See Kam of the Department of Communication, University of Macau (UM), has been elected chairman of the Asian Cinema Studies Society (ACSS) and appointed editor of Asian Cinema.

ACSS was founded in the United States in 1984. Asian Cinema, now published by the internationally renowned Intellect Press of the United Kingdom, is an important bi-annual academic publication of ACSS. Its international advisory board comprises many world-renowned scholars in the field. So far twenty-three volumes consisting of nearly 50 issues have been released.

ACSS and Asian Cinema have long served as a platform for scholars, practitioners and students engaged in Asian cinema-, media- and communication-related studies from around the world to carry out critical exchange. Over the years, ACSS has held ten international conferences, five in the United States, and the rest in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, China and South Korea, Variously hosted by world-class universities such as Ohio University, Trent University, University of Washington, Peking University, and Hong Kong University, these conferences have witnessed enthusiastic responses, contributing to global communities of scholarship in the interdisciplinary area of film, media and communication..

At the 10th ACSS international conference held in Hong Kong in March 2012, six professors and students from UM’s Department of Communication presented their works to an international audience. Sanity, a video made by year-3 English Communication students, was selected for screening and discussion at the conference.
 

 

For enquiries, please contact Ms. Albee Lei at(853)8397 4325 or albeelei@um.edu.mo, or visit www.umac.mo.