News26 May 2017
Global Cinemas Speak Back, Weds 31 May 2017
Categorised under: Events, Theatre & Film
The Centre for Film Studies, SOAS presents its 3rd Postgraduate Symposium, Global Cinemas Speak Back on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 at the Wolfson Lecture Theatre (S108), Paul Webley Wing (Senate House). See details below.
Programme:
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:15 – 10:00 Keynote Speaker:
Dr Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham): Understanding the Global Competitiveness of Korean Film Sound
This illustrated presentation analyses the “shadow” history of the East Asian digital audio post-production sector’s global competitiveness by providing a critical account of the work of Live Tone, the most important sound studio in South Korea. Focusing in particular on its ongoing collaboration with celebrated director Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer, Okja), it draws upon the emerging and vital methodologies of production studies and sound studies.
10:00 -10:15 Refreshments Break
10:15 – 11:45 Panel: Female Representation in Film
Chair: DR BEN MURTAGH
Lois Barnett: From Marlene Dietrich to Tanaka Kinuyo: Masculine Fashion and the Female Japanese Star in Ozu Yasujirō’s Dragnet Girl (Hijōsen no Onna, 1933)
Jiratorn Sakulwattana: Visual Representation of Women in the Studio-based Films and the Habitus of Film Viewership in Contemporary Thailand
Todun Joseph: Female Representation by Female Filmmakers in Nollywood Films
11:45 – 12:00 Refreshments Break
12:00 – 13:30 Panel: Transnational Networks of Film Finance and Co-Productions
Chair: DR LINDIWE DOVEY
Robin Steedman: Negotiating Transnational Circuits of Screen Media: Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers and World Cinema
Isaya Sinpongsporn: How to Remake As Thai: The Key Factors of Korean-to-Thai Television Drama Adaptation
Elaine Chung: A Korean Cinema in Mainland China: From Co-productions to Remakes
13:30 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:15 Panel: Commercially Successful Films in Academic Obscurity
Chair: DR MARCOS CENTENO
Michael W. Thomas: Melodrama and the Commercial Film Industry in Ethiopia
Tom Cunliffe: Mandarin Vs Cantonese in 1970s Hong Kong Cinema: Auditory Ruptures in Kuei Chih-hung’s Early Shaw Brothers Films
15:15 – 15:30 Closing Remarks
16:00 SCREENING OF THE FILM “HĀFU” AT BERTHA DOCHOUSE
Organiser: SOAS Centre for Film Studies
https://www.soas.ac.uk/film-studies/
Contact: filmsymposiumsoas@gmail.com