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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 Dr. Julian Stringer University of Nottingham ‘Film Festivals and Their Communities: Lessons from Nottingham 1991-2000’ Abstract: The subject of film festivals is a vitally important yet underdeveloped aspect of Film Studies. This talk explores the relationship between a particular UK festival and its public by undertaking a rhetorical analysis of the constitution of a sense of community by Nottingham's 'Shots in the Dark' (a festival of mystery and crime films) which ran between the years 1991-2000. It examines some of the specific ways in which audiences are interpellated by festival rhetoric, and suggests some of the more diverse functions film festivals have come to take upon themselves in recent years. Speaker: Julian Stringer is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Nottingham and co-ordinating editor of Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies. He is editor of Movie Blockbusters (Routledge, 2003), co-editor of New Korean Cinema (New York UP/Edinburgh UP, 2005), and author of a forthcoming monograph on film festivals. Centre for Film Studies 5:15 pm, Board Room, 99 North Street <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 Belén 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