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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