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OFF-SCREEN SPACES: REGIONALISM AND GLOBALISED CULTURES
AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FILM, TELEVISION AND MEDIA:
CULTURES AND POLICIES
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http://www.bftv.ac.uk
http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osshome.htm
A conference organised by the AHRB Centre for British Film
and Television Studies in association with The Centre for
Media Research, University of Ulster
Wednesday 28 - Friday 30 July 2004
University of Ulster, Coleraine (Portrush Campus)
REGISTER NOW USING THE ATTACHED FORM OR GO TO:
http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osshome.htm
This major international conference will explore the
relationship between 'global' popular culture and various
definitions of 'local' culture. Crucial to an understanding
of this relationship is the concept of 'the region' as it
has become reconfigured by global economic and cultural
forces. Regional cultures exist in relation and in
opposition to dominant national cultures and interact with
them in complex and contradictory ways.
National cultures are themselves often posited as
'regional' cultures in opposition to the global and the
concept of 'critical regionalism' has been canvassed as a
challenge to global conformity or homogeneity. On the other
hand, in line with the strategies of multinational
corporations more generally, multinational software
manufacturers have divided the global market into 'regions'
for the purpose of controlling the DVD market. This would
suggest that, despite the potential of regional cultures to
offer alternatives to the global market, there is in fact
nothing intrinsically challenging or radical in the concept
of the region.
The conference will explore the complex and contradictory
relationships among the local, the regional, the national
and the global and assess the implications for both media
representation and local, national and transnational
audio-visual policy. Central to discussions will be the
concept of comparative film studies and a number of papers
will address the rationale and theoretical implications of
comparative media research.
The conference also encourages papers that explore the role
that new ICTs play in shaping regional digital cultures and
politics. How, for instance, have social movements adopted
new technologies in order to become organised in ways that
challenge national borders? What responses have the state
and supranational entities had to such practices? How have
new media industries redefined cartographies of production,
distribution and consumption and what are some of the new
antagonisms and collaborations that attend such
socio-technical formations? The conference is interested in
both theoretical and reflexive empirical responses to
questions along these lines.
KEYNOTE LECTURES AND PLENARY SESSIONS
Wednesday 28 July, 6.00 p.m. LT8
Opening Keynote Lecture:
John Tomlinson: Globalisation and Cultural Identity
It is fair to say that the impact of globalisation in the
cultural sphere has, most generally, been viewed in a
pessimistic light. Typically, it has been associated with
the destruction of local cultural identities, victims of
the accelerating encroachment of an homogenised,
westernised, consumer culture. This view, the constituency
for which extends from academics to anti-globalisation
activists, tends to interpret globalisation as a seamless
extension of - indeed as a euphemism for - western cultural
imperialism. Whilst not denying the obvious power of
globalized capitalism to distribute and promote its
cultural goods in every corner, this paper will suggest a
quite different analysis of the cultural impact of global
modernity : that cultural identity, properly understood, is
much more the product of globalisation than its victim.
Thursday 29 July, 9.15 am, LT8
Keynote Lecture:
Ang, Ien: Changing Meanings of Asia and Asianness in
Contemporary Global Culture
This address will reflect on the multiple and shifting
meanings of the term 'Asian' in today's globalising world.
It will look especially at the disjunctures between 'Asian'
in Asia and 'Asian' outside Asia, especially in the West.
The growth of large Asian diasporas in Western countries
has created increasingly prominent discourses of 'Asian'
identity and culture in those countries, which diverge
significantly from the ways in which the term 'Asia(n)' is
given meaning within the Asian region itself. Examples will
be drawn from identity politics, popular culture and media
consumption.
Thursday, 29 July, 5.00 p.m. LT8
World Premiere Screening
Rebel Frontier (Desmond Bell, 2004, 64 mins.)
The latest film from prize-winning documentary filmmaker,
Desmond Bell, deals with Irish and Finnish opposition to US
involvement in the First World War. The story is told
through the eyes of a Dashiell Hammett type Pinkerton Agent
spying on the miners of Butte Montana who strike to halt
copper munitions production. The film is in the style of
Bell's previous prize winning film 'Hard road to the
Klondike' - a creative documentary making extensive use of
archive material. The voice-over narration is by celebrated
Hollywood actor, Martin Sheen.
Desmond Bell will attend the screening and answer questions
afterwards.
Friday, 30 July, 9.15a.m. LT8
Keynote Lecture:
Toby Miller: The People of the United States Cannot be
Trusted: Globalised Hollywood 2
Friday, 30 July, 2.00p.m. LT8
Panel Discussion:
Film Policy in the UK: Four Years of the Film Council
(with David Steele, Senior Executive Researcher, UK Film
Council; Prof. Sylvia Harvey, University of Lincoln; Prof.
John Hill, University of Ulster and member, UK Film Council
and Richard Williams, Director Northern Ireland Television
Commission)
Friday, 30 July, 5.00 p.m. LT8
Closing Keynote Address:
Pat Loughrey, Director, Nations and Regions, BBC:
Local Identity in the Global Village: the BBC's Regional
Policy
CONFERENCE PAPERS
Caterer, James: 'Playing the Lottery Twice: the Dual
Nationality of Stella Does Tricks'
Chambers, Ciara: 'Representing the Local: Newsreel Coverage
of Irish Neutrality in World War 11'
Cooke, Lez: '"Regional" British Television Drama in the
1960s and 1970s'
Davis, Amy M: 'The "Dark Prince" and Dream Women: Walt
Disney and Mid-twentieth Century American Feminism'
Davidson, Kelly: 'The Hyper North: A Tourist Guide to
Northern Ireland'.
de Lannoy, Yuna: 'Kurosawa's Russia'
Elsey, Eileen: 'Distillation: The Short Film as critical
Space'
Flynn, Roddy: 'Ireland and the New International Division
of Labour'
Guenther, Kathrein, Margaret Dickinson and Sylvia Harvey:
'Getting Films to Audiences: Aspects of Regional and
National Policy and Practice in the UK'
Hill, Andrew: 'Northern Ireland and pre-Troubles BBC Drama'
Horrocks, Simon: 'An American in Hong Kong: The Work of
Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia'
Hung, Hsiu - Chin: 'The Possibility of Regional Cultures:
Intra-Asian TV Drama Flow'
Jackson, Rhona: 'By Jingo, we're British: An Exploration of
British Identity in a Time of Regionalism'
Kaewprasert, Oradol: 'Film in Thailand'
Karpovich, Angelina & Xin Zhang-Stalhi: 'For Whom the
Lantern Hangs: Raise the Red Lantern across Borders and
Boundaries'
Ko, Mika: 'Representing Okinawa: Contesting Images in
Contemporary Japanese Cinema'
Langlois, Tony: 'Music, Images and Technology in Morocco'
Maasilta, Mari: 'An analysis of Karmen in the Context of
Globalised Cinema Industry and Senegalese Nationalism'
McLaughlin, Greg and Steve Baker: 'US Imperialism and Media
Studies in Ireland'
Moore, Paul: 'Laughing through our Ears: James Young and
Sonic Comic Identity in Northern Ireland'
Murphy, Kenneth: 'Internationalisation, Convergence and
Broadcasting Policy in Ireland'
Porter, Robert: 'What is political Cinema?'
Roscoe, Jane: 'Australian Big Brother: The TV Equivalent of
the McOz Burger?'
Rossiter, Ned: 'Regionalism and Comparative Internet
Research: A Technics of Methodology'
Selfe, Melanie: 'The Role of the Provincial Film Society in
Mediating National Cinema Discourse'
Scott, Alistair: 'Shieldinch or Raploch, Community Lives on
Television: Fact or Fiction'
Sydney-Smith, Susan: 'Get Carter and "the Northern": The
glocalisation of the British Crime Movie'
Thornton, Niamh: 'Zapatistas: Reclaiming the Margins
Through Technology'
Tobias, James: 'Shin-Tokyo-Gakumon: Learning Tokyo by
Creating it Otherwise'
Van den Bulck, Hilde and Dave Sinardet: 'Is National
Identity the Weakest Link? The Articulation of National
Identity in a Globalised Popular Television format'
Vitali-West, Valentina: 'Action Women'
Wieten, Jan and Mervii Pantti: 'Mourning becomes the
Nation: Television Coverage of the Murders of Anna Lindh
and Pim Fortuyn'
Willemen, Paul: 'The Conceptualist Vector in Comparative
Film Studies'
Woodward, Kate: '"Öand to a lesser extent, WalesÖ" New
Cinema in Wales'
Woolock Stephen: 'Regional Relocation: Humberside County
Council and the Exclusion of the "World"'
CONFERENCE FEES:
Fees (with two nights accommodation) £130.00
Fees only £90.00
Fees include breakfast, tea & coffee, light lunch and
evening meals on Wednesday and Thursday.
Please note that paper presenters need to register for the
conference and pay the registration fee. Cheques made
payable to University of Ulster
ENQUIRIES TO:
Janet Mackle Martin Mcloone
Conference Co-ordinator Conference Organiser
Cultural Development
Centre for Media Research
Tel: 028 7032 4683
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Northern Ireland
BT52 1SA
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