European
Cinema Research Forum 2005
1-3 July
This year's conference is organised
in conjunction with the University of Leeds World Cinemas Group,
and a The British Academy International Networks Project
Screening Identities: Identity Politics in Contemporary European Cinema.
The conference will take place at Hinsely Hall. The venue has limited on-site accommodation, which will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Programme
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12.30-1.30 |
Registration |
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1.30 |
Welcome from Professor Frank Finlay (Head of School of Modern Languages and Cultures) |
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1.45-3.15 |
Session
1a The UKFC: Friend or Foe to International Cinema Chair: Graeme Harper (University of Portsmouth) Louis
Le Prince Interdisciplinary Centre (University of Leeds): Stephen
Hay, ‘ “Never mind the ...” UK Screen Academies – Why?’ Heather
Wallis, ‘Is it all about the material? – from script to screen in the
UK Film Council age’ Graham
Roberts, ‘Which Windmills are we tilting at now? The Film Council at
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Session
1b Europe
and Hollywood 1
Steven
Gregory (University of Bristol), ‘From exile to interstitiality: Eve/
Eva (1962), directed by Joseph Losey’
Catherine O’Rawe (University of Leeds), ‘Indiscretion of an American Producer: De Sica’s Stazione Termini between Neo-realism and Hollywood’
Iris Luppa (Buckinghamshire Chilterns UC), ‘Dogville: Lars’s Lehrstück for America?’ |
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3.15-3.30 |
Coffee |
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3.30-5.00 |
Session
2a Reception
Chair: Ivana Doležalová (Jerome of Prague College) Iris Kronauer (Academy of Media Arts, Cologne) and Erik Tängerstad (Gotland University, Sweden), ‘Beholding Eyes – dissimilar receptions of similar films: Milcho Manchevski's Before the Rain and Dust Randall
Halle (Universtiy of Rochester), ‘Imagining Europe: German Film,
Transnational Distribution and Reception’ Laura
Hubner (University College, Winchester), ‘High and Low: Shifting
Definitions of Contemporary European Cinema’ |
Session
2b Transnational or
Postnational? Chair:
Baris John
Davidson (Ohio State University), ‘Geuropean Identity? On the Precarious
Balance between German-Language Cinema and the New Europe’ Christian
Rogowski (Amherst College), ‘tomtykwer.com: Moving (German) Pictures
Towards a Post-national Cinema’ Barbara
Selznick (University of Arizona), ‘Language and Identity: English
Language in International Co-Production’ |
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5.00-6.00 |
Dinner |
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6.30 |
Film
screening (Hyde
Park Cinema) |
Head On (Fatih Akin, 2003)Introduced by Tim Grünewald (University of Washington)
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9.00-10.30 |
Session
3a Redefining
national identities Chair: Fiona Handyside (Queen’s University, Belfast) Martin
O’Shaunessey (Nottingham Trent University ),'French
cinema and the disintegration of the nation' Cristina
Johnston (University of Aberdeen/University of Glasgow), ‘The banlieues
go on holiday: French banlieue cinema meets the regions’ Jo
Evans (University College London), ‘Julio Medem’s Tierra (1995)
and Juanma Bajo Ulloa La madre muerta (1993): Basque Identity, or
just the other? |
Session
3b Cold
War legacies David Sorfa (Liverpool John Moores University), ‘Faithless Games: A Romantic View of the Czech/ Slovak Velvet Divorce’ Elisabetta
Girelli (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘The Traitor as Patriot: Guy
Burgess, Englishness and Camp in An Englishman Abroad and Another
Country’ Daniela
Berghahn (Oxford Brookes University), ‘Female allegories of nation in
Aleksandr Askoldov’s The Commissar (USSR, 1967/87) and Konrad
Wolf’s Divided Heaven (GDR, 1964)’ |
Session
3c Negotiating
Nazism? Chair:
Chris Homewood (University of Leeds) Christine
Haase (University of Georgia, USA), ‘Ready for his Close-up?
Representing Hitler in Der Untergang [The Downfall]’ Alexandra
Ludewig (University of Western Australia), ‘Hitler as Human(e)?
Humanizing Nazism in Contemporary German Cinema’ Sabine
Hake (UT Austin), ‘History Lessons: Marketing the Third Reich to a
National and International Audience’ |
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10.30-12.00 |
Session
4a Europe
and Hollywood II
David Clarke (University of Bath), ‘A Leap of Faith: Tom Tykwer's Dialogue with European Modernism'
Cynthia Lucia (Rider
University), ‘Patrice Leconte and His Disparate Influences: Hitchcock,
Allen and American Genre Film’ |
Session
4b Terrorism Alan O’Leary (University of Cambridge), 'Lest we forget: Staging testimony and the commemoration of the Bologna station bombing' Chris
Homewood (University of Leeds), ‘The
Legacy of Terrorism and the Berlin Republic on Film’ |
Session 4c Film and the Modern Languages Curriculum Discussion Panel Moderator and presenter: Laura McGee, Western Kentucky University, with contributions from Jacqueline Collins, University of Northumbria: 'Whose material is it anyway?': Territorial issues in teaching national cinemas
Owen Evans, University of Wales, Swansea: 'Trading Places: From Language to Film'...? |
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12.00-12.15 |
Coffee |
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12.30-1.30 |
Plenary |
Professor Lucia Nagib (University of Leeds)
The Zero, the Centre and the Empty Utopia
- From Rossellini to Walter Salles
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1.30-2.30 |
Lunch |
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2.30-4.00 |
Session
5a Minority
Voices? Chair: Daniela Berghahn (Oxford Brookes University) Andrew
McGregor (University of Melbourne), ‘Dealing with the outside within:
Roma culture and European identity politics in Tony Gatlif’s Gadjo
Dilo’ Allyson
Fiddler (University of Lancaster), ‘Goran
Rebic and his “Balkan Vienna”’ Ian
Roberts (Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth), ‘The Transatlantic
Threshold: F.W. Murnau’s career in Germany and the U.S.A’ |
Session
5b The
Film Industry and the EU Chair: Isabel Santaolalla (Roehampton University) Alejandro
Pardo (University of Navarra), ‘”Global Hollywood” versus
“Fortress Europe”: New trends in the cultural and economic battle for
the international film market’ Graeme
Harper (University of Portsmouth), ‘Defining Identity: The European
Filmic Mode’
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Session
5c Auteurs Laura Rorato (University of Wales, Bangor), ‘“Rescuing the glance”: Seeing as remembering in Gianni Celati’s films’
Victoria
Pastor-Gonzalez (University of Hull), ‘”Nothing of Him that Doth Fade,
But Doth Suffer a Sea-change”: Retelling the Past in Krzysztof
Kieslowski’s Three Colours: Red and Shakespeare’s The
Tempest’ |
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4.00-4.15 |
Coffee |
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4.15-5.45 |
Session 6a
Screening
Eastern Borders Owen
Evans (University of Wales, Swansea), ‘Over the Border: Hans-Christian
Schmid’s Lichter/ Distant Lights (2003)’ Ivana
Doležalová (Jerome of Prague College),
‘Finding a True Picture
of Ourselves: Czech Cinematography in Search for Identity’ |
Session
6b Screening
Gender and Sexuality Chair:
Alan O'Leary Baris
Ann
Davies (University of Newcastle), ‘Defying a Basque Father(land): Women
Against the Law in Spanish Thrillers’
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7.00 |
Conference
dinner |
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Sunday
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9.00-10.30 |
Session
7a Integrating
the Other Chair: Randall Halle (Universtiy of Rochester) Heather
Merle Benbow (University of Melbourne), ‘German Orientalism? Cultural
Others in the Cinema of Doris Dörrie’ Susan
Ingram (York University, Canada) and Markus
Reisenleiter (Lingnan University, Hong Kong),
‘Welcome to Class Europa: Virtuality and Virtuosity in Mamoru Oshii’s Avalon’ Aisha
Jamal (University of Toronto), ‘Re-defining “German”: Two Films by
Thomas Arslan |
Session
7b Off-screen
influences Chair: Stephen Forcer (Keble College, Oxford) Jennifer William (Purdue
University), ‘Images of Europe from Abroad: The Pleasures and Pitfalls
of Teaching European Cinema in America’ Anna
Schober (University of Vienna), ‘City-Squats: The cinema-space as a cave
for politics’ Regina
Standún (National University of Ireland Maynooth), ‘Contemporary
Austrian Popular Film’
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Session 7c Sketches of Spain Chair: Jacqueline Collins (University of Northumbria) Isabel Santaolalla (Roehampton University) A Case of Split Identity? Europe and Spanish America in Recent Spanish Cinema María Platas Alonso (University of Vigo, Spain), ‘Looking Through a Gender Perspective in Spanish Cinema: The Films by Icíar Bollaín’
Elaine Canning (University of Wales, Swansea), ‘Serve on, be bold, for love is perseverance’ - Tradition, Innovation and Illusion in Pilar Miró’s The Dog in the Manger (1996) |
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10.30-10.45 |
Coffee |
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10.45-11.45 |
Plenary |
Dr
Ian Aiken (De Montfort University) ‘Realist
traditions in European Film Theory’
Chair:
Rob Stone (University of Wales Swansea)
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11.45-12.45 |
Session
8a Realisms Chair
Dr
Ian Aiken (De Montfort University) Roy
Boyne (University of Durham), ‘Cinema and the Real: Filming at the edge
of the void and hoping there will be something caught on camera’ |
Session
8b Europe
and Hollywood III Chair: David Sorfa (Liverpool John Moores University) Stuart.
N. Green (University of Sheffield), ‘A Play on Film: Spanish Identities
and Hollywood Representations in El amor sólo dura 2.000 metros’ Fiona Handyside (Queen’s University, Belfast), ‘Water Drops Far From Heaven: The Contemporary European and The Contemporary Hollywood Melodrama’ |
Session 8c
Troubling
Germanness Andrew Plowman (University of Liverpool), ‘Screening the FRG: The ‘old’ Federal Republic in recent German film’ Tim
Grünewald (University of Washington), ‘Transgressing Whiteness: Borders
and Identity in the films of Fatih Akin’ |
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1.00 |
Departure |
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