Like the Mydoom virus, conference announcements appear to be catching.
Here is the latest.
I attach details of another conference, considering both film and
television, which will take place on the University of Ulster's sunny,
seaside Portrush Campus on the North Antrim coast on July 28-30 2004
(visit to the Giant's Causeway optional).
What more could you want!
Martin McLoone
AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
and
The Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers:
Off-Screen Spaces: Regionalism and Globalised Cultures
(An international conference on Film, Television and Media Cultures and
Policies)
July 28-30 2004,
University of Ulster,
Coleraine (Portrush Campus)
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 this has become reconfigured by global economic and
cultural forces. Regional cultures exist in relation to and in opposition
to dominant national cultures in complex and contradictory ways. National
cultures themselves are 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. 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 fact that regional cultures seem to offer alternatives to the
global market there appears to be 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.
Confirmed speakers so far include Toby Miller, John Hill and Paul
Willemen. Conference sessions will include the following themes:
Ukania and the Cultural Break-up of Britain
The Future for European National Cinemas
Irish Cinema and other small Anglophone cinemas
The BBC Charter Renewal Debate
Five Years of the Film Council
Globalised Hollywood
Comparative Film Studies
Asian Cinemas
Third Cinema Now
Exhibition and world cinema in Britain/Ireland
Call For Papers
Papers are invited which address any of the themes of the conference but
which especially explore:
regional, national, global cinemas:
readings of particular films/filmmakers;
regional, national, global television;
globalised media and cultural identities;
national or regional policies;
independence/dependence etc;
comparative film or media studies;
critical regionalism
Abstracts of between 150-200 words should be e-mailed or sent on disk to
the address below. The deadline for abstracts is 23 April 2004.
Please note that paper presenters need to register for the conference and
pay the registration fee.
Abstracts and Enquiries to:
Janet Mackle Martin McLoone
Conference Co-ordinator Conference Organiser
Cultural Development Centre for Media Research
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Northern Ireland
BT52 1SA
Tel: +44 (0) 28 7032 4683
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