Geographies of Film Theory
19 May 2008 11:21 Filed in: Conferences
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Geographies of Film Theory
Thursday eve 26th June – Saturday 28th June 2008
Birkbeck College, London
Organised by the Screen Studies Group in collaboration with the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies
Thursday 26 June
2008:
Location: The Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square.
6.00pm Film Screening, Evening Registration and Reception.
Friday 27 June 2008:
Location: Room B O4, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square.
9.30am Registration
9.45am Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, University of London): Welcome and Introduction
European Geographies:
10.00am -12.00pm
Sarah Cooper (King’s, University of London): Imaging the Soul: Henri Bergson and Classical French Film Theory
Erica Carter (Warwick University): The Cosmopolitan Body: The Early Film Theory of Béla Balázs
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London): Ice and Artifice: From the Nature of Filming to the Filming of Nature in Late Weimar Film Theory
12.15 - 1.15pm
Keynote Speaker: Francesco Casetti (Universitá Cattolica, Milano): Early Film Theories: Their Three-fold Borders
--- lunch ---
2.30 - 4.30pm
Laura Marcus (Edinburgh University): The Mental Mechanism: Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Early Film Theory
Rachel Moore (Goldsmiths, University of London): A Different Nature: How Ethnography Served Film Theory
Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London): The Vision Machine: Mechanistic Theories of Film in the 1920s
4.45 - 5.45pm
Keynote Speaker: Mikhail Iampolski (New York University): Cinema and Revolution: Vertov, Eisenstein and the Generation of Meaning Out of Everyday Chaos
Speakers’ Dinner Saturday 28 June 2008:
Global Geographies:
10.00am -12.00pm
Chris Berry (Goldsmiths, University of London): Teahouse Attraction and Garden View: The Cinema Arrives in China
Kay Dickinson (Goldsmiths, University of London): Red and Green Stars in Broad Daylight: Syrian Cinema's Journeys to the Eastern Bloc
Haidee Wasson (Concordia University): Siegfried Kracauer’s Secret Business: A German Émigré and American Institutions of Film Art (1939 –1945)
12.15 - 1.15pm
Keynote Speaker: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore): The Curious Case of Bombay’s Hindi Cinema: John Grierson’s Colonial Legacies Meet Indigenous Capital
--- lunch ---
2.30 - 4.30pm
Isolde Standish (SOAS, University of London): Yoshida Yoshishige and Visual Anarchy: a Theory of Japanese Avant-garde Filmmaking in the 1960s
Michael Chanan (Roehampton University): ‘Just because we don’t have written theory, it doesn’t mean we don’t have theory’ (Pastor Vega). The Theoretical Implications of Radical Practices in New Latin American Cinema
Rosalind Gray (Goldsmiths, University of London): Mozambican Revolution: Trajectories of Radical Film Theory and Practice in Africa
4.45 - 5.45pm Keynote Speaker: Kim Soyoung (Korean National University of Arts): Cinema Almost In/visible: Postcolonial Archive
Reception: Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, Room 274-5 Stewart House, 32 Russell Square.
Registration:
The conference fee is £25 per day, £10 for concessions per day; £40 for both days, £15 for concessions; Thursday evening, no fee.
For more information and registration please see:
http://screenstudies.sas.ac.uk/symposia.htm
or contact
Flo Austin (flo.austin@sas.ac.uk).
With gratitude for support from the British Academy and the School of Advanced Studies.
Location: The Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square.
6.00pm Film Screening, Evening Registration and Reception.
Friday 27 June 2008:
Location: Room B O4, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square.
9.30am Registration
9.45am Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, University of London): Welcome and Introduction
European Geographies:
10.00am -12.00pm
Sarah Cooper (King’s, University of London): Imaging the Soul: Henri Bergson and Classical French Film Theory
Erica Carter (Warwick University): The Cosmopolitan Body: The Early Film Theory of Béla Balázs
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London): Ice and Artifice: From the Nature of Filming to the Filming of Nature in Late Weimar Film Theory
12.15 - 1.15pm
Keynote Speaker: Francesco Casetti (Universitá Cattolica, Milano): Early Film Theories: Their Three-fold Borders
--- lunch ---
2.30 - 4.30pm
Laura Marcus (Edinburgh University): The Mental Mechanism: Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Early Film Theory
Rachel Moore (Goldsmiths, University of London): A Different Nature: How Ethnography Served Film Theory
Ian Christie (Birkbeck, University of London): The Vision Machine: Mechanistic Theories of Film in the 1920s
4.45 - 5.45pm
Keynote Speaker: Mikhail Iampolski (New York University): Cinema and Revolution: Vertov, Eisenstein and the Generation of Meaning Out of Everyday Chaos
Speakers’ Dinner Saturday 28 June 2008:
Global Geographies:
10.00am -12.00pm
Chris Berry (Goldsmiths, University of London): Teahouse Attraction and Garden View: The Cinema Arrives in China
Kay Dickinson (Goldsmiths, University of London): Red and Green Stars in Broad Daylight: Syrian Cinema's Journeys to the Eastern Bloc
Haidee Wasson (Concordia University): Siegfried Kracauer’s Secret Business: A German Émigré and American Institutions of Film Art (1939 –1945)
12.15 - 1.15pm
Keynote Speaker: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, (Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore): The Curious Case of Bombay’s Hindi Cinema: John Grierson’s Colonial Legacies Meet Indigenous Capital
--- lunch ---
2.30 - 4.30pm
Isolde Standish (SOAS, University of London): Yoshida Yoshishige and Visual Anarchy: a Theory of Japanese Avant-garde Filmmaking in the 1960s
Michael Chanan (Roehampton University): ‘Just because we don’t have written theory, it doesn’t mean we don’t have theory’ (Pastor Vega). The Theoretical Implications of Radical Practices in New Latin American Cinema
Rosalind Gray (Goldsmiths, University of London): Mozambican Revolution: Trajectories of Radical Film Theory and Practice in Africa
4.45 - 5.45pm Keynote Speaker: Kim Soyoung (Korean National University of Arts): Cinema Almost In/visible: Postcolonial Archive
Reception: Institute for Germanic and Romance Studies, Room 274-5 Stewart House, 32 Russell Square.
Registration:
The conference fee is £25 per day, £10 for concessions per day; £40 for both days, £15 for concessions; Thursday evening, no fee.
For more information and registration please see:
http://screenstudies.sas.ac.uk/symposia.htm
or contact
Flo Austin (flo.austin@sas.ac.uk).
With gratitude for support from the British Academy and the School of Advanced Studies.
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