Off-Screen Spaces:
Regionalism and Globalised Cultures

An International Conference on Film, Television and Media Cultures and
Policy


Wednesday 28 - Friday 30 July, 2004
University of Ulster, Coleraine

http://www.bftv.ac.uk/events/osscall2.htm

http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/oss-call-reg.pdf



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:  '"…and to a lesser extent, Wales…" New Cinema in Wales'

Woolock Stephen: 'Regional Relocation: Humberside County Council and the
Exclusion of the "World"'