Department of Film Studies

Thu 20th October 2011 17:15 to 18:15

CFS Talk: Richard Dyer, The Class of Jack the Ripper

In this presentation, Prof. Richard Dyer will consider literary and filmic representations of Jack the Ripper from the point of view of social factors and class.

Tue 18th October 2011 17:15 to 19:00

CFS Talk: Michael Duckworth, Academic Publishing in Asia

This seminar by the publisher of Hong Kong University Press will discuss the publication and distribution of printed English-language books in Asia, and how electronic publishing is changing the communications eco-system. It will touch on editorial processes, including submission procedures and what editors look for in evaluating manuscripts and prospects for enhanced e-publications.

Tue 11th October 2011 17:15 to 19:00

CFS Talk: Yun-hua Chen, Mosaic Space and Mosaic Auteurs: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Atom Egoyan, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Michael Haneke

In this talk I propose approaching multi-strand films in a way that extends our focus beyond narrative strategy, arguing that the assemblage of narrative threads in fact infers a larger spatial mosaic. I will use the filmmaking contexts and film works of Michael Haneke, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Atom Egoyan and Alejandro González Iñárritu as examples, and the spatial theories of Marc Augé, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Saskia Sassen, Mike Featherstone among others to explain the dynamism of spatial configurations.