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
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
