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Seminar Series at the Centre for Film Studies University of St Andrews, Scotland TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 - (5:15pm) Dr. Dimitris Eleftheriotis University of Glasgow Positions in Transnational Cinema Abstract: This paper is a prelude to a research project entitled Cinematic Journeys. It notes the crucial aesthetic, semantic and political interaction between three orders of movement in relation to film: cinematic movement (e.g. movement of the frame or in the frame), narratives of movement (e.g. road movies or travelling stories) and mass population movements (e.g. tourism or emigration). The paper focuses on two specific types of cinematic movement analysed through several film clips. First, a movement of the frame that can be plotted against an axis of certainty/uncertainty a movement that leads to a revelation/affirmation or, at the other extreme, a movement that unsettles and disturbs. Second, a movement that interacts with the body of characters that can be plotted against an axis of activity/passivity shots where the body is acted upon by camera movement or others where the camera simply follows the active body. Speaker: Dimitris Eleftheriotis teaches film at the University of Glasgow. His books include the forthcoming edited collection Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide (2006), and the monograph Popular Cinemas of Europe: Studies of Texts, Contexts and Frameworks (2002). He has published articles on European cinema in Screen and essays in edited collections on science fiction and action cinema. He is co-editor (with Dina Iordanova) of Indian Cinema Abroad: Historiography of Transnational Cinematic Exchanges (2006). Centre for Film Studies 5:15 pm, Board Room, 99 North Street – St Andrews http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/filmstudies/events/seminars/filmrelated.html FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 - (5:15pm) Prof. Paddy Scannell University of Westminster What's the Difference between Film and Television Studies? Abstract: The academic study of film and television in Britain both have a common origin in English Literature. In the 1970s there was a famous academic row between Screen and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham over the ideological effect of film and television. I will take this debate as basis for developing a critique of both film and television studies as they were established in this moment and argue for a new way of thinking about the difference between them that hinges on the meaning of 'live' television. Speaker: Paddy Scannell has taught at what was once the Regent Street Polytechnic (now the University of Westminster) since the late 1960s. He is a founding editor of the journal Media Culture & Society which began publication in 1979. He is co-author with David Cardiff of A Social History of British Broadcasting (Blackwell 1991), editor of Broadcast Talk (Sage 1991) and sole author of Radio, Television and Modern Life (Blackwell 1996). He is currently working on a trilogy, the first volume of which (Media and Communication in the 20th Century), will be published by Sage in early 2007. Centre for Film Studies 5:15 pm, Board Room, 99 North Street – St Andrews http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/filmstudies/events/seminars/filmrelated.html TUESDAY - FEBRUARY 28 - (5:15pm) Scottish Premiere of Between the Dictator and Me With attendance by co-director MÓNICA ROVIRA followed by a talk on The Need to Forget and the Desire to Remember Presented by Jennie Holmes (Spanish/Film Studies, University of St Andrews) Abstract: Entre el dictador y yo (Between the Dictator and Me, dir. Juan Barrero, Raúl Cuevas, Guillem López, Mónica Rovira, Sandra Ruesga and Elia Urquiza) was released on the 30th anniversary of Francos death on 20th November 2005. The end of 36 years of dictatorship, subsequent transition to democracy and rapidly improving quality of life in Spain has been heralded as a great success story. The process of forgetting that has been necessary for the cauterisation of wounds inflicted during the Civil War and military rule has created a curious vacuum. The talk will explore how this innovative film, composed of six shorts by six different directors all under the age of thirty, challenges their parents generations need to forget and their own desire to remember. Speaker: Jennie Holmes is a PhD student at St Andrews. She is due to complete her thesis Representations of the Home in Contemporary Spanish Cinema in early 2008. She is a contributor to the MRes in Modern Languages at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London with a topic entitled “Subverting the House that Franco Built: Dissident Filmmakers and the Representation of Intimate Space”. Jointly presented by the Centre for Film Studies & Spanish Department 5:15 pm, School II, St Salvators Quad, North Street – St Andrews <http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/filmstudies/events/seminars/filmrelated.html>http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/filmstudies/events/seminars/filmrelated.html Dr Belen Vidal Lecturer in Film Studies University of St Andrews Film Studies 99 North Street St. Andrews Fife KY16 9AD Scotland, UK Tel. 01334 46 7472