Dear all
Apologies for cross-posting. Please find below the full programme of the forthcoming 12th Annual Postgraduate Conference of the Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews. You are warmly invited to attend the conference. Please feel free to share this invitation with any Master's or doctoral students you think may be interested in attending our conference. We sincerely hope to see some of you at St Andrews.
Regards
Sanghita Sen and Souraj Dutta
Conference organisers
THE PROGRAMME
DAY 1: Thursday, April 27
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee and Introduction
!0:00 – 11:45 – Panel 1: Political cinema
1. Alice Black, “Broker Pose: Performance and Performativity in Christian Petzold’s Yella”
2. Ketlyn Mara Rosa, “The Landscape of War: Lone Survivor."
3. Isabel Segui: “Unearthing Andean Women Filmmakers III: María Barea”
4. Sanghita Sen: “The Naxal Subgenre in Indian Cinema.”
11:45 – 12:45 LUNCH BREAK
12:45 – 14:15 – Keynote Address: Dr Iain Robert Smith, Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College, London
14:15 – 16:00 – Panel 2: Early Cinema
1. Paddy Adamson, The Silent Epic Western as History
2. Shruti Narayanswamy, "Sevika", "Sex starved", "Birth Controlled": Women at the intersection of cinema, reform and nationalism, 1930s-1940s
3. Sophie Hopmeier, Sous les Masques Noirs (1939): Masks and Cinema as twinned technologies of mediation in the Musée de l’Homme
4. Ana Maria Sapountzi, Making Meaning of Laurence Olivier: Reading Queer Sensibilities in His Hollywood Performances from 1939-1960
16:00 – 16:30: Feedback on Presentations
DAY 2: Friday, April 28
9:30 – 11:15 - Panel 3: Asian Cinemas
1. Jinuo Diao, Evolution of the policy in the Chinese film industry
2. Abdulrahman Al Ghannam, Arab Gulf States Film Policy: trends, developments and challenges
3. Shorna Pal, Digitisation and the Universal Cross Platform Film: Marketing and Distribution Strategies for New Media Technologies
4. Connor McMorran, Referencing Hong Kong in South Korean Cinema
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:15 – Panel 4: Film Festivals
1. Sarah Smith, Cinephilia and Topophilia at Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival
2. Alexandra-Maria Colta, Insider/Outsider Perspectives: Researching Programming Practices at Human Rights Film Festivals
3. Darae Kim, Ethos and Ethics of Film Festival: Can Film Festival be Virtuous?
4. Chris Fujiwara, Constructions of Contemporary Art Cinema Spectatorship
13:15 – 14:15 LUNCH BREAK
14:15 – 16:00 – Panel 5: Entertainment
1. Souraj Dutta, TOPIC
2. Aakshi Magazine, The Love Song in Hindi cinema
3. Cassice Last, Cast Away's 21st century Survival
4. Huimin Deng, Textual Analysis of Film History: Textuality and Intertextuality
16:00 – 16:30 Feedback on Presentations
16:30 VOTE of THANKS
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