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University of Southampton CIFR Research Seminar Series Semester 2, 2016-17 Dear Colleagues, Students and Friends, (Sorry for cross-posting) You are cordially invited to the first talk of the Centre for International Film Research (CIFR)’s Research Seminar Series at the University of Southampton in Semester 2, featuring Professor Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow). Date: 7 February 2017, Tuesday Time: 4pm - 5:45pm Venue: Lecture Theatre B, Building 65, Avenue Campus, University of Southampton All welcome! Paper Title: Minnelli’s Madame Bovary (1949): A Test Case for New Disciplines Abstract: The many adaptations of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary have provided fertile grounds for teaching and analysis. In this paper I want to explore how Vincente Minnelli’s 1949 adaptation for MGM has provided a test case for critics from different disciplinary backgrounds. In particular, I want to set the analyses of two seminal critics in adaptation studies (George Bluestone and Robert Stam) against the early work of two film studies scholars (Lesley Stern and Robin Wood). I will use this analysis to provide a brief account of the different approaches to classic Hollywood in both disciplines and to suggest that the new methods which formed the basis of Film Studies as a discipline in the 1970s and 1980s offered a more complex account of a film which can be best understood as ‘a film in which the internal contradictions turn its apparent ideological function against itself’. (‘Cinema/Ideology/Criticism’, J. Comolli and P. Narboni). But I would suggest this exchange (or lack of it) illustrates how Film Studies at that point was predicated on a lack of interest in adaptations as adaptations while Adaptation Studies’ pre-occupation with the movement from book to film hampered even its most radical theorists. In conclusion, I will reflect briefly on current interest in the study of adaptations and would welcome comments on that in the discussion. Speaker's Bio: Professor Christine Geraghty is Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She began her career by studying and then teaching part-time with British Film Institute and University of London in the 1970s and 1980s and took up her first fulltime academic post at Goldsmiths College in 1993. She has published extensively on film and television with a particular interest in fiction and form. Her books include Women and Soap Opera (Polity, 1991); British Cinema in the Fifties: Gender, Genre and the ‘New Look’ (Routledge, 2000), Now a Major Motion Picture: Film Adaptations of Literature and Drama (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008) and Bleak House (Palgrave/BFI, 2012). Her most recent work includes essays on Atonement (2007), The Knack . . . (1965) and The Iron Lady (2011). She is on the editorial board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and on the advisory boards of a number of journals, including Adaptation, CST and Screen. She was for 10 years chair of the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association. *** Run by the Film department at the University of Southampton, the Centre for International Film Research (CIFR) is a research centre that provides an interdisciplinary forum for research into film. The CIFR showcases the university’s research excellence while engaging wider communities through public events, visiting speakers and research initiatives. For more information about CIFR’s research seminar series: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/news/seminars/latest.page For more information about CIFR members’ research: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/research/index.page Best, Ruby -- Dr Ruby Cheung Lecturer in Film Studies University of Southampton Southampton SO17 1BJ UK Latest Publication: New Hong Kong Cinema: Transitions to Becoming Chinese in 21st-Century East Asia<http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=CheungNew> -- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the Film-Philosophy list, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/film-philosophy.html -- Journal: http://www.film-philosophy.com/ Conference: http://www.film-philosophy.com/conference/ --