A Medium in Transition? Changing Contexts and Cultures in Cinema Production and Consumption

The next workshop organised by the Mixed Cinema Network, 'A Medium in Transition? Changing Contexts and Cultures in Cinema Production and Consumption' will take place at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York from 24th to 25th May 2011.

The Schedule for the event is given below. The schedule, together with abstracts for each of the presentations, is available to download at the bottom of the page.

Tuesday 24th May

11:00 – 1:00
Mixed Cinema Network PhD Forum: Issues in Japanese Cinema
Presentations of work in progress by doctoral students attached to the programme:

Julian Ross (University of Leeds)         ‘Projection-Performances: The Degrees of Intermediality in the Japanese Cinema of the 1960s’

Jasper Sharp (University of Sheffield)    ‘Buddha: Selling an Asian Spectacle’

Michael Smith (University of Leeds)      ‘Tanaka Kinuyo – Women’s Filmmaker or Woman Making Films?’

Chair: Andy Tudor (University of York)

2:00 – 5:00

Cinema and the Transnational

A discussion of the increasingly transnational character of cinema that considers the implications of this for the study and understanding of questions of production and consumption, cross cultural interaction, institutional collaboration and education and training.

Ben Gibson (London Film School),   ‘The End of National Cinema?: International Independent Styles and Global Graduate Training. A Case Study of the London Film School.’

Will Higbee (University of Exeter)     'The (Maghrebi-) French connection': cinemas of the North African diaspora in France since 2000’

Andrew Higson (University of York)    ‘Culturally English Film-Making and the Transnational’

Dina Iordanova (University of St. Andrews)    ‘The Global Film Festival Circuit’

Chair: Duncan Petrie (University of York)

Screening

Wednesday 25th May

9:30 – 12:30

The Impact of New Technologies

A series of contributions on the transformation being brought about by digital technology on film in terms of the production and consumption of film and its status as an object of study.

Sean Cubitt (Winchester School of Art)   ‘Is there anything medium-specific about digital media?’

Gavin Kearney (University of York)        ‘Challenges in Modern Spatial Sound Reproduction for Film and Television’

John Mateer (University of York)           ‘Digital Cinematography: Evolution of Craft or a New Paradigm?’

Sarah Street (University of Bristol)         ‘Re-Make, Re-Model: Digital post-production and film restoration’

Chair: Andrew Higson (University of York)

2:00 – 3:30

Meeting of Mixed Cinema Network

For further information, please contact Professor Duncan Petrie (duncan.petrie@york.ac.uk)