Screen Studies Conference 2013 Programme
FRIDAY 28 JUNE
14.00-16.00
Ground Floor, outside Gym
REGISTRATION
16.00 -18.00
Lecture Theatre
O PENING PLENARY
Chair s : Tim Bergfelder, Jackie Stacey
· Gina Marchetti
The contradictions of cosmopolitanism: Hong Kong women filmmakers, the New Wave
and World cinema
· Lisa Parks
Mapping orbit: toward a vertical commons
18.00-20.00
Hunterian Museum
RECEPTION
SATURDAY 29 JUNE
9.15-10.45
221 Revisiting the history of cosmopolitan film theory and criticism
Chair: Jackie Stacey
· Marco Grosoli
Against cosmopolitanism: the universalistic approach of the ‘Politique des auteurs’
· Tijana Mamula
From psychophysical correspondences to the media unconscious: Theory of Film today
227a The c osm opolitan c ity I: from Calcutta to LA
Chair: Alastair Phillips
· Ranita Chatterjee
Cinema and the colonial city: early screen cultures in cosmopolitan Calcutta
· Sayandeb Chowdhury
The making of Calcutta as a cinematic city
· Richard Misek
Remixing the city: public and private media space in Los Angeles Plays Itself
227 b Stardom in the c lassical era
Chair: Sarah Street
· Rachel Kapelke-Dale
The iconic polyglot: Greta Garbo and MGM’s cosmopolitan recruitment strategy
· Gillian Kelly
Robert Taylor: ‘the invisible star’ of classical Hollywood cinema
· Moya Luckett
Celebrity, stardom and ambivalence: Hollywood’s misgivings about screen fame
234 European funding bodies and ‘ World ’ cinema
Chair: Philip Drake
· Yael Friedman
The traps of transnational production contexts: the Palestinian case
· Dorota Ostrowska
Cannes Cinefondation: international film festivals as producers of World cinema
· Deborah Shaw
European funding for Latin American filmmakers: the cases of Carlos Reygadas and Claudia Llosa
237a Cosmopolitan television
Chair: Karen Lury
· Meenasarani Murugan
An exotic pipe dream: re-orienting early US television history
· Joseph Oldham
Anxieties of cosmopolitanism in British clandestine television serials, 1979-89
237 b Aesthetic perspectives on subjects in motion
Chair: Richard Rushton
· Maud Ceuterick
Wandering women in the cosmofeminine space of contemporary art
· Catherine Fowler
Roots forward, routes back: Isaac Julien’s radicant moving image art
· Rochelle Simmons
From margins to circles: Berger and Tanner’s cosmopolitanism
10.45-11.15
Gym Tea/coffee
11.15- 13.00
221 Rethinking national cinemas
Chair: Phil Powrie
· Philip Drake
‘Restless natives’: creative labour and policymaking in cinemas of small nations
· Melvyn Stokes and Matthew Jones
Cultural memory and British cinemagoing of the 1960s
· Ambrose Uchenunu
Nollywood: from guerrilla filmmaking to guerrilla film marketing and the loss of movie distribution powers
227a Cosmopolitan perspectives on Indian cinema
Chair: Rosie Thomas
· Akshaya Kumar
From convex to concave: Indian cinemas and the cosmopolitan lens
· Salma Siddique
Partition and the cosmopolitics of Shorey comedies
· Rosie Thomas
Aladdin’s Indian adventures: cosmopolitan modernity and Indian fantasy films
227 b Cosmopolitanism and auteurism
Chair: Dimitris Eleftheriotis
· Margaret Flinn
The anti-cosmopolitanism of Olivier Assayas
· Paul Newland
We’re like grass: The New World, cosmopolitanism, and the cinema of hospitality
· Lydia Papadimitriou
Cosmopolitanism and the Balkans: on the impossibility of living together
· Richard Rushton
Society in the films of the Dardenne brothers: escaping from a minority
234 Global industries, local production, cosmopolitan networks
Chair: Paul Kerr
· Alfio Leotta
Small nations and global dispersal of film production: a comparative analysis of the movie industry in New Zealand and the UAE
· Lucy Mazdon
Continental films for cosmopolitan viewers: French cinema in Britain
· Tom O’Regan
Between networks and value: cosmopolitan networks and parochial content in local and international production
· Julie Turnock
Monsters are real: genre and the transnational visual effects business
237a Film festivals I
Chair: Mattias Frey
· Murat Akser
A festival for the labour: International Labour Film Festival as a cosmopolitan site of resistance
· Andrew Dorman
A decentred aesthetic: consolidating cosmopolitanism through cultural spectacle in contemporary Japanese ‘festival films’
· Maria-Paz Peirano
Towards a ‘cosmopolitan’ national film industry: contemporary Chilean cinema at international film festivals
237 b Staging alterity and identity
Chair: Lisa Purse
· Chu-chueh Cheng
Reconfiguration, estrangement and transgression in The White Countess
· Rania Gaafar
Material spectres of alterity: on cosmopolitical knowledge and phenomenotechnologies of exilic film art
· Boaz Hagin
‘The workshop of Israel’s spirit’: the ‘chosen’ people and spiritualist cosmopolitanism in the writings of Margot Klausner
· Miriam de Rosa
Being there: the subject before cosmopolitanism
13.00-14.15
Gym Lunchbreak
14.15 - 16.00
221 Diasporic cinema
Chair: Laura Rascaroli
· Matthias Christen and Kathrin Rothemund
Cosmopolitan cinema as utopian stance: probing societal forms in narrative terms
· Malini Guha
The politics of circulation: new orientalism and the case of Caveh Zahedi’s
The Sheik and I
· Rosa Holman
Translating Iranian diasporic cinema: identity and reterritorialization in Tina Gharavi’s
I am Nasrine
227a Hollywood cosmopolitanism
Chair: Lucy Mazdon
· Elizabeth Ezra
‘Make Mine a Cosmopolitan’: Global Consumer Culture in Sex and the City 2
· Lin Feng
Behind the dazzling lights: the secret of cosmopolitan Shanghai in Hollywood action blockbusters
· Ian Rijsdijk
Between Sherwood Forest and the Red Sea: South Africa imagined in Hollywood during the 1920s
227 b Film festivals II
Chair: Andrew Dorman
· Mattias Frey
Disturbing directors, disturbed programmers: the rhetoric and reception of extreme cinema
· Skadi Loist
Exchange networks: the international film festival circuit and global film circulation
· Marijke de Valck
Circulation and promotion of alternative filmmaking through film festivals
· Aida Vallejo
Festival translations: documentary production and cultural exchange within Europe
234 Aesthet ics and mobility in the frame: W orld cinema perspectives on marginal cosmopolitanism
Chair: Tim Bergfelder
· James Donald
Paul Robeson’s thwarted cosmopolitanism
· Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
A child in the new Chinese city: mobility, violence and stasis
· Lúcia Nagib
Sounding the cosmopolitan frame
237a Issues in contemporary film aesthetics
Chair: Alison Butler
· Lisa Purse
Between spatial illegibility and situatedness: the phenomenology of the action sequence
· Miriam Ross
Stereoscopic debris: affective moments in 3D cinema
· Hiaw Khim Tan
Props and the image: broaching the issue of production design in classical Hollywood film
237 b Cosmopolitanism and identity
Chair: Catherine Fowler
· Keara Goin
‘Why is Ugly Betty Mexican American?’ The role of narrative location in constructions and perceptions of Latinidad
· Kerry Hegarty
Fragmented aesthetics and ideology in twenty-first-century Mexican cinema
· Abigail Keating
What’s in an eponym? Embodied (non)identity in ‘Celtic Tiger’ Irish cinema
· Allison Macleod
Compartmentalized cosmopolitans: constructions of urban space in queer Irish cinema
16.00-16.30
Gym Tea/coffee break
16.30-18.00
221 Borders and margins
Chair: Dorota Ostrowska
· Matilda Mroz
Cosmopolitan memories and haunted spaces: images of the Polish-Jewish past
· Andrea Pócsik
Cultural scenes of resistance: cosmopolitan spectatorship
· Rosa Urtiaga
Violence and global ethics in Bordertown: debating cosmopolitanism
227a Early cinema in Scotland: the local and the cosmopolitan
Chair: Duncan Petrie
· John Caughie
Early Scottish cinema: the local, the rural and the public sphere
· Trevor Griffiths
A clearer and larger outlook on life: Scottish audiences and early moving picture shows,
1896-1926
· Maria Velez-Serna
Cinema programming as a cosmopolitan practice in 1910s Scotland
227 b Cosmopolitan sounds and haptic experiences
Chair: Tim Bergfelder
· Beth Carroll
Audiovisual haptic experience in Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
· Phil Powrie
The transnational soundtrack in contemporary French cinema
· Iain Robert Smith
Global travels of Bollywood song and dance: ‘Jaan Pehechan Ho’ from Gumnaam (1965) to Heineken’s The Date (2011)
234 Theori z ing cosmopolitan cinema
Chair: Dimitris Eleftheriotis
· Jennifer Barker
Cosmopolitanism and animated kinography
· Seung-Hoon Jeong
Mapping global cinema through reshaping cosmopolitanism
· David Martin-Jones
Dussel and the ethics of intercultural encounters: Tambien la Lluvia/Even the Rain
237a Colonial echoes, projections of empire
Chair: James Donald
· Annabel Cooper
Cosmopolitan and colonial encounters: filmmaking in Māori communities, 1927
· Stephen Morgan
Cosmopolitan commonwealth(s) and the Australian films of Ealing studios
· Anna Sloan
Colonial representation in 1950s Hollywood: a spatial and geographical reading of two early widescreen films
237 b The cosmopolitan c ity II: London
Chair: Malini Guha
· Karolina Kendall-Bush
Cosmopolitan London: projecting London’s prewar immigrant communities
· Jay James May
The fretful cosmopolitan: London as the centre of the world in minor London cinema
1959-65
· Jo Stephenson
London as a ‘host’ city: cosmopolitanism and cultural export promotion in British media coverage of the 2012 Olympic Games
20.00 for 20.30
The Sisters , Kelvingrove
DINNER (advance bookings only)
SUNDAY 30 June
9.15-10.45
221 Human traffic and film labour
Chair: Melvyn Stokes
· Paul Kerr
Film traffic, human traffic
· Nirmala Manne Nagaraj
Film labour in a cosmopolitan trap
· Leshu Torchin
Porous borders: geopolitics and genre in John & Jane
227a Italian horror: from aesthetics to politics
Chair: Lydia Papadimitriou
· Louis Bayman
The haunted canvas: the picturesque in gothic horror
· Austin Fisher
The ‘Years of Lead’ and the politics of gore: cultural capital and the Giallo
227 b Animation in the Middle East – a cosmopolitan approach
Chair: Lúcia Nagib
· Sabina Shah
Animating Muslim women’s agency
· Alena Strohmaier
Animation in films of the Iranian diaspora
· Stefanie Van de Peer
Fragments of war and animation: documentaries by Syrian and Lebanese women
234 Cosmopolitanism in Asian cinema
Chair: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
· Allan Cameron
Exchanging faces: reversible space in the ‘facial transmutation’ film
· Graham Neil Gillespie
From ambivalence to amity: internalized reflexive cosmopolitization in Taiwanese cinema
· Ming-yu Lee
The man migrates with a movie camera: from Vertov to Liu Na’Ou
10.45-11.15
Gym Tea/coffee break
11.15 -12.45
221 Documentary
Chair: John Caughie
· Holly Giesman
Documentary film and ‘good-enough’ cosmopolitanism
· Katerina Loukopoulou
Basil Wright’s documentaries on Greece
227a Cosmopolitan currents in Thai cinema
Chair: Gina Marchetti
· Anchalee Chaiworaporn
The global rise of Tony Jaa’s cosmopolitan discontents
· David Richler
From the outside looking in: festival spectatorship, DVD paratexts, and the cross-platform cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
227 b Nation and postnation in the global era
Chair: Tom O ’ Regan
· Erato Basea
How to find the C-spot: the cosmopolitan/cosmopolitical subject in the era of global crisis
· Joanne Hershfield
Modernist filmmaking in a postmodernist world: the films of Carlos Reygadas
234 Exile, self-exile and integratio n: cosmopolitan auteurs in the c lassical era
Chair: Alastair Phillips
· Matthew Asprey Gear
‘From Helsinki to Léopoldville’: national identity and erased distances in Orson Welles’s
Mr Arkadin
· Jane Mills
Negotiating difference and coexistence in Milos Forman’s Taking Off
· Duncan Petrie
Cosmopolitanism and postwar British film culture: the case of Karel Reisz and Carl Forman
12.45-14.00
Gym Lunchbreak
14.00-16.00
Lecture Theatre
CLOSING PLENARY
Chairs: Dimitris Eleftheriotis, Alastair Phillips
· Philip Schlesinger
Reflections on the constitution of a national film agency
· Laura Rascaroli
Street view: European routes, cosmopolitan takes