on 08/06/2000 9:39 am, Rashmi Doraiswamy at [log in to unmask] wrote:
Dear Rashmi,
It would be great to see your work one day. It is nice to meet here too.
Tushar
> Dear Madam/Sir,
> I read your notice on the genre symposium with interest. I am working on
> genre
> in the Hindi film and have referred among other writings to Neale's book
> on
> genre in it. Would be interested in reading the papers presented at your
> symposium. Is there any way of accessing them?
> Best wishes,
> Rashmi Doraiswamy
>
> [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> *Re-generating Genre*
>>
>> A one-day Symposium hosted by Film Studies at the University of Kent, in
>> association with Film Studies: An International Review.
>>
>> Monday 19th June 2000
>> Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
>>
>> The concept of genre, once a way of dismissing popular cinema, became with
>> the rise of Film Studies a central mode of analysis of Hollywood film. The
>> certainty of generic categories has been recently challenged, however, not
>> only in the films of post-classical Hollywood but also by new scholarship
>> on classical Hollywood itself. At the same time writers have begun to
>> examine other cinemas in terms of genre and the meanings that can be
>> generated by genre, showing both the influence of American cinema and the
>> deviations and transformations produced by other national cinemas. Steve
>> Neale, whose book *Genre and Hollywood* was published in 1999, will give a
>> keynote presentation on the blockbuster in Hollywood. Catherine Grant will
>> talk about melodrama in Mexican cinema, and Peter Stanfield, whose study of
>> Hollywood and the 1930s Western is forthcoming from Exeter University
>> Press, will talk about neo-noir. The day will conclude with a roundtable
>> discussion with contributions by Linda Ruth Williams, Nick Burton, Allison
>> Tedman, and Mike Hammond.
>>
>> 11.00 am Introduction
>>
>> 11.10 am Peter Stanfield (Southampton Institute)
>> Film Noir Like You've Never Seen - Jim Thompson and Neo-Noir; or, The
>> French Got There First
>>
>> 12.00am Catherine Grant (University of Kent)
>> Music and Performance in 'Old' and 'New' Mexican Melodramas
>>
>> 1-2.15 lunch
>>
>> 2.15 pm Steve Neale (Sheffield Hallam)
>> What is a blockbuster?
>>
>> 3.15-3.30pm Tea
>>
>> 3.30-4.30 Roundtable discussion initiated by Linda Ruth Williams
>> (University of Southampton), Nick Burton (Christ Church College), Mike
>> Hammond (University of Southampton), Allison Tedman (Buckinghamshire
>> Chilterns University).
>>
>> Organised by UKC Film Studies in association with the Kent Institute for
>> Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
>
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