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2008/2009 Program

National, Transnational and Cosmopolitan
29 October 2008 Professor Chris Perriam (Manchester) Javier Bardem: Costume, Crime, and Commitment
19 November 2008 Dr Catherine O’Rawe (Bristol) Italian Neorealism between Hollywood and Nation
28 January 2009 Professor David Bordwell (Wisconsin-Madison) Adjusting to Hollywood Style: International trends in the 1910s and 1920s
22 April 2009 Professor Scott MacKenzie (Toronto) Transnationalism and Terror: Rethinking Transnational Cinemas in the Face of the Other
2007/2008 program
New Approaches to Film Studies
3 October 07
Professor Ismail Xavier
University of São Paulo
The Avant-gardes: New Approaches
30 January 08
Professor Marc Silberman
University of Wisconsin-Madison
On Brecht, Realism, and the Media
06 February 08
Dr Ming-Yeh Rawnsley
University of Nottingham in Ningbo, China
Cinema, Identity and Resistance in Taiwan
23 April 08
Dr Paulo de Medeiros
University of Utrecht
Cinema and Cultural Memory: the Portuguese Case

2006/2007 program

Film, Screen and the Real

22 November 06

Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Queen Mary, University of London

What was new about neo-realism?

14 February 07 Professor John Caughie
University of Glasgow
Morvern Callar, art cinema and the ‘monstrous archive’
28 February 07 Professor Ian Christie
Birkbeck, University of London
Symbolism reborn: the strange case of Alexander Sokurov
14 March 07 Professor Paul Julian Smith
University of Cambridge
The euthanasia debate in The Sea Inside and Tele5’s Periodistas

last revised October 6, 2009

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