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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond – A postgraduate student conference

Fri 10th November 2006 09:00 to 17:30

Byre Theatre- Top Floor

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Cinemas, Identities and Beyond

St. Andrews-Glasgow Postgraduate Conference Centre for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews

Top Floor, Byre Theatre, 10 Nov 2006 (Fri)

Abstract

The exploration of identity is one of the most contested and thought-provoking contemporary subjects. As a dominant and penetrating cultural form, cinema conditions and shapes the manner in which we interpret issues of identity and space. Our understanding of representation, narrative conventions, film form, industry issues and a whole host of other socio-political factors related to cultural production and consumption powerfully define our ever changing ideas of identity.

Academic Guests

Professor John Caughie is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow where he has served also as Dean of Arts for a number of years. Prof. Caughie is the editor of Theories of Authorship: A Reader (Routledge, 1981). He is the author of The Companion to British and Irish Cinema (with Kevin Rockett, Continuum International, 1996) and Television Drama: Realism, Modernism, and British Culture (Oxford University Press, 2000). He is a founding member of the editorial board of Screen. Prof. Caughie is the Chair of the AHRC Research Committee.

Dr. Dimitris Eleftheriotis is Senior Lecturer of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. His research interests cover various areas including European Cinema; Postcolonial Theories; ‘Other' Cinemas; Transcultural Aspects of Cinema; Audiovisual Technologies and Cultural Policy. He is a member of the editorial board of Portal and of the advisory editorial board of Screen and was involved in the production of two award-winning films in Greece (Nilo, 1979; The Dream Factory, 1990). Dr. Eleftheriotis is the editor of Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide (with Gary Needham, Edinburgh University Press, 2004). He is the author of Popular Cinemas of Europe: Studies of Texts, Contexts and Frameworks (Continuum International, 2002), articles on European Cinema published in Screen and essays in edited collections on Science Fiction (Pluto, 2001) and Action Cinema (Routledge, 2004). He recently co-edited (with Dina Iordanova) a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture on Indian Cinema Abroad: Historiography of Transnational Cinematic Exchanges (Routledge, 2006).

Professor Christine Geraghty is Professor and Head of Film and Television Studies at the University of Glasgow. Her researches focus on Film and Television Fiction; British Cinema from 1939; Feminist Film and Television Theory; Fictional Genres; Screen Audiences; Stars, Acting and Performance; and Cultural Studies. She is an editor of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and a member of the editorial advisory boards of Screen, Media and Cultural Politics, Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education and the Journal of Television Studies. She is chairperson of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association. Prof. Geraghty is the author of Women and Soap Opera (Polity, 1991), The Television Studies Book (with David Lusted, Arnold, 1998), and British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the ‘New Look' (Routledge, 2000). Her detailed study of the British film, My Beautiful Laundrette, was published by I B Taurus in 2004. She has recently been working on essays updating her study of soap opera and is currently writing a book on Screen Adaptations.

Professor Andrew Higson is Professor Film Studies and Head of the School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia. Prof. Higson's research is mainly on British Cinema, past and present, on which he has published widely. He has edited two general surveys of British Cinema history, which cover the period from the late 1920s to the late 1990s: Dissolving Views: Key Writings on British Cinema (Cassell, 1996), and British Cinema, Past and Present (co-edited with Justine Ashby; Routledge, 2000). A third edited book surveys the development of cinema in Britain in the silent period: Young and Innocent? The Cinema in Britain, 1896-1930 (University of Exeter Press, 2002). He is also co-editor, with Richard Maltby, of a book looking at relations between European (including British) Cinema and American Cinema in the 1920s and 1930s: ‘Film Europe' and ‘Film America': Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange, 1920-1939 (University of Exeter Press, 1999; awarded the Prix Jean Mitry, 2000). Prof. Higson is the author of Waving The Flag: Constructing a National Cinema in Britain (Oxford University Press, 1995) and English Heritage, English Cinema: The Costume Drama in the 1980s and 1990s (Oxford University Press, 2003).

Professor Dina Iordanova is Professor and Chair in Film Studies, and Director of the Centre for Film Studies at the University of St. Andrews. She has written extensively on the cinema of Eastern Europe and the Balkans and runs a variety of research projects in the area of international and transnational cinema. She has special interest in issues related to cinema at the periphery; in her research she works on a meta-national level and focuses on the dynamics of transnationalism in cinema. Her books include Cinema of Flames: Balkan Film, Culture and the Media (BFI, 2001), Emir Kusturica (BFI, 2002), and Cinema of the Other Europe (Wallflower, 2003). She is the editor of Companion to Russian and Eastern European Cinema (BFI, 2000), of a special issue of Framework on images of Gypsies in international cinema (2003), and of Cinema of the Balkans (Wallflower, 2006). Most recently, Prof. Iordanova co-edited (with Dimitris Eleftheriotis) a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture entitled Indian Cinema Abroad: Historiography of Transnational Cinematic Exchanges (Routledge, 2006). Dr. Laura Rascaroli lectures at the National University of Ireland, Cork, where she is co-Chair of the Board of Film Studies and co-director of the MA in Film Studies. She has a special interest in postmodern European cinema; her published research also focuses on modernism, on film theory, on representations of space, and on realism. She is the author, in collaboration with Ewa Mazierska, of From Moscow to Madrid: European Cities, Postmodern Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2003), The Cinema of Nanni Moretti: Dreams and Diaries (Wallflower, 2004), which also appeared in Italian and in Polish translation, and Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel, European Cinema (Wallflower, 2006). She is currently working on a monograph on contemporary subjective non-fiction cinema.

Schedule:

09:00-09:30 Opening Remarks

• Prof. Dina Iordanova (Director, Centre for Film Studies, University of St. Andrews) • Prof. John Caughie (on AHRC funding)

09:30 - 11:00 Panel 1

Academic Convener: Dr. Dimitris Eleftheriotis

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 Panel 2

Academic Convener: Dr. Laura Rascaroli

13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00 - 15:30 Panel 3

Academic Convener: Prof. Christine Geraghty

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30 Panel 4

Academic Convener: Prof. Andrew Higson

17:30-18:30 Closing and Wine Reception

Panels:

Panel 1: Chair: Dr. Dimitris Eleftheriotis

Yael Friedman, Politics of Self-representation: Young Palestinian Filmmaking in Israel (University of Westminster)
Hui Miao, Cultural Specificity and Cross-cultural Analysis (Mainland Chinese cinema) (University of Birmingham)
Miriam Ross, Against the National: Transnational Processes in South Korean Film (University of Glasgow)
Mary Ainslie, The Monstrous Chinese ‘Other' in the Thai Horror Movie ‘Zee-Oui' (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Panel 2: Chair: Dr. Laura Rascaroli

Iain Robert Smith, An Islamic Exorcist?: Transnational Processes of Exchange and Hybridisation in Turkish Popular Cinema (University of Nottingham)
Vlastimir Sudar, Examining Kara-sevda: Self-exoticism or the Revival of Romanticism in the Balkan Cinema(University of St. Andrews)
Tom Whittaker, No-man's land: Between the Rural and the Urban in Carlos Saura's ¡Deprisa, deprisa! (Queen Mary College, University of London)
Gracia Ramirez, Parables of Life: Morality and Identity in The Straight Story (Napier University)

Panel 3: Chair: Prof. Christine Geraghty

Sarah Gilligan, Gadgets, Shades and Cool Clothes: Conspicuous Consumption & Transforming Masculinity in Contemporary Science Fiction / Action Cinema (Royal Holloway)
SooJeong Ahn, Building up ‘Asian Identity' and Remapping Asian Cinema: the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea (University of Nottingham)
Olga Kourelou, Irene Papas and the Representation of Greek Identity in the Film Adaptations of Classical Drama (King's College, London)
Stefano Baschiera, Beyond the Home: Domestic Space and Identity in the Cinema of the Coen Brothers (National University of Ireland, Cork)

Panel 4: Chair: Prof. Andrew Higson

Lynne Hibberd, Scottish Identity at Scottish Screen (University of Stirling)
Jack Newsinger, Identity Policies: Culture, Commerce and Identity in Regional Film Cultures in England (University of Nottingham)
Christina Bruns, Provincial Revival: Regional Realities in German Documentary Cinema (University of Edinburgh)
Kishore Budha, Market Reforms, Nationalism, and War Films - a Case for Historical Continuities (University of Leeds)

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