Presentations from the conference held at the University of St Andrews between June 15th and June 17th 2006.

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Dina Iordanova and Keith Brown

Dina Iordanova and Keith Brown

University of St Andrews

“Introduction and welcome”

8min 16sec

Mette Hjort

Mette Hjort

Lignan University, Hong Kong

“Homophilic Transnationalism: The 'Advance Party' Initiative”

51min 28sec

Rod Stoneman

Rod Stoneman

Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Galway, Ireland

“Dimpsey at the Edge”

59min 13sec

Duncan Petrie

Duncan Petrie

University of Auckland, New Zealand

“Small National Cinemas in an Era of Globalisation”

44min 7sec


Sheldon Lu

Sheldon Lu

University of California at Davis, USA

“Emerging from Underground and the Periphery: Independent Cinema in Contemporary China”

39min 52sec

Lucia Nagib

Lucia Nagib

Leeds University, UK

“Japanese Cinema and Local Modernity”

37min 35sec

Laura U. Marks

Laura U. Marks

Simon Fraser University, Canada

“Geopolitics Hides Something in the Image; Arab Cinema Unfolds Something Else”

56min

Faye Ginsburg

Faye Ginsburg

New York University, USA

“Black Screens and Cultural Citizenship”

52min 21sec


Dudley Andrew

Dudley Andrew

Yale University, USA

“Turbulent Waves, Stagnant Seas: Awash in World Cinema”

1hr 9min 55sec

Bill Marshall

Bill Marshall

University of Glasgow, UK

“Deleuze, Quebec and Cinemas of Minor Frenchness”

1hr 1min 28sec

John Caughie

John Caughie

University of Glasgow, UK

“The Angel's Share: Morvern Callar and the Difficulty of Art Cinema”

42min 44sec

Pam Cook

Pam Cook

University of Southampton, UK

“Out from Down Under: Baz Luhrmann and Australian Cinema”

45min 8 sec


Patricia Pisters

Patricia Pisters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

“Filming Tanger: Migratory Identities in North Africa”

44min 27sec

Hamid Naficy

Hamid Naficy

Rice University, USA

“Interstitial, Transnational, and National-Iranian Silent Cinema”

36min 26sec

Kristian Feigelson

Kristian Feigelson

Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

“A Visual Map of the Film World”

57min 37sec

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