Dear friends and
colleagues,
Please see details below of an the upcoming talk by a prominent
international guest. I hope it will be of interest to those of you who
are in the vicinity.
best
Belen Vidal
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CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES
ST ANDREWS UNIVERSITY
Prof. Ib Bondebjerg, University of Copenhagen
New Danish Cinema: cultural identities and globalisation
24 May 2007, 5:15 pm
Centre for Film Studies, Board Room, 99 North Street
Since 2000 Danish cinema expanded not just in the number of films
produced, but also in the thematic and generic scope. The cultural
identities and themes reflected in Danish cinema has gone from a more
monocultural reality to a more multicultural and global agenda. The
traditional construction of a mainstream, national cinema is still there
and still very popular, but at the same time the national construction
has been profoundly changed by both a more complex regionalisation,
europeanisation and globalisation. The genereic formats have also
undergone change, from the radical avantgarde, the new realism to the new
genre films. The presentation will discuss Danish cinema in a broader
European and global perspective and look at some recent films reflecting
the artistic diversity of new Danish cinema.
Ib Bondebjerg, born 1947, is professor of film and media studies, at the
university of Copenhagen, Department of Media, Cognition and
Communication, where he is also currently Vice-Chair and Head of section.
He was co-director of the European research programme Changing
Media-Changing Europe (together with Peter Golding, UK) 2000-2005 and
director of the national research program Media and democracy in the
Network Society (2002-2005). He is editor in chief of Northern
Lights. Film and Media Studies Yearbook. He has recently published
(in Danish): Film and modernity. Film genres and film culture in
Denmark 1940-1972 (2005), Narratives of reality. Danish
tv-documentary 1951-2005 (2007). His edited or co-edited works in
English include: The Danish Directors. Dialogues on a Contemporary
National Cinema (with Mette Hjort, 2000), Moving Images, Culture
and the mind (2000), European Culture and the Media (with
Peter Golding, 2004) and Media, Democracy and European Culture
(2007).
Web:
www.mef.ku.dk
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