Fwd: Cinema and the City: 12-14 March 1999

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

A cross-post from H-FILM.  There's at least one paper on Tokyo in 
Japanese film.

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From: Mark Shiel <mashiel at ollamh.ucd.ie>

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Dear All Members of H-FILM,
We are pleased to inform you of the full line-up of speakers at Cinema and
the City, which will take place at the Centre for Film Studies, University
College Dublin, Friday 12- Sunday 14 March 1999.
If you would like more information, please visit the conference website or
contact the conference organisers, Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, at the
address/number given at the bottom of this message.....

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Mike Davis:
Lecturer in Urban Theory and History at the Southern California Institute 
of
Architecture, and at the University of Southern California.
Author of: Prisoners of the American Dream (New York: Verso, 1986); City 
of
Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (New York: Vintage, 1992);
Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster (New York:
Henry Holt & Co., 1998).

Geoffrey Nowell-Smith:
Professor of Film, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam 
University.
Author of L'avventura (London: BFI, 1998); editor of The Oxford History of
World Cinema (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996); co-editor of 
Hollywood
and Europe: Economics, Culture, National Identity, 1945-95 (London : BFI
Publishing, 1998); The Companion to Italian Cinema (London: 
Cassell/British
Film Institute, 1996); and other publications.

Kevin Rockett:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Film Studies, University College
Dublin.
Author of: The Irish Filmography: Fiction Films, 1896-1996 (Dublin: Red
Mountain Press, 1996); Still Irish: A Century of the Irish in Film 
(Dublin:
Red Mountain Press, 1995); Co-author of The Companion to British and Irish
Cinema, with John Caughie (London: Cassell/British Film Institute, 1996);
Cinema and Ireland, with Luke Gibbons and John Hill (London: Croom Helm,
1987).

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LIST OF SPEAKERS:


SESSION ONE
1000-1200 Saturday 13 March

Strand A
Theatre L
James Hay, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign:
"The West, the Backyard, and the Shadow of the Houston Astrodome"
Allan Siegel, School of the Art Institute of Chicago:
"After the Sixties: Changing Paradigms in the Representation of Urban 
Space"
John Orr, University of Edinburgh:
"Film form and the Rebirth of the Cinematic City in the 1990s"

Strand B
Theatre P
Darrell Varga, York University, Toronto:
"Desire and Violence in Cronenberg's Crash and Wenders' End of Violence"
Juliette Crooks, University of Sunderland:
"The Corporeal City and Human En-gene-ering, with particular reference to
Gattaca (1997) and Blade Runner (1982)"
Matthew Gandy, University College London:
"Allergy and Allegory in Todd Haynes's Safe"

Strand C
Room C108
Anna Notaro, University of Nottingham:
"Visions of the Future in the American Modern(ist) Metropolis"
David Caldwell, University of Northern Colorado:
"Berlin from Below: Re-examining the Cinematic Underworld"
Graham Roberts, University of Leeds:
"Forging The 'Link': Changing Representations of the City and the
Countryside and their Relationship in Soviet Cinema, 1924-1934"

Strand D
Room E114
Franzi Meister, University of Zurich:
"The City as Montage - Cutting to Reality"
Christoph Ribbat, Bochum University, Germany:
"The Streets of Hollywood: Philip-Lorca diCorcia's Photographs"
Jesse Lerner, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, and David Serlin,
National Museum of American History, Washington DC:
"Weegee"




SESSION TWO
1430-1600 Saturday 13 March

Strand A
Theatre L
David Sorfa, University of Kent:
"Architorture: Surrealist Film and the Oppression of Buildings"
Michael Ireton, Cornell University:
"Dis/juncture/location/
orientation/traction: The Utopian Impulse in Piranesi, Eisenstein, Vertov,
Le Corbusier, and Tschumi"
Stephen Roe, Columbia University:
"Cinema into Architecture: Animation Techniques in Architectural Design"

Strand B
Theatre P
Anh Bui, University of California Berkeley:
"Escape from/to Hong Kong: Wong Kar-Wai's Chungking Express and the
Unlocatable City"
J. Paul Narkunas, University of Pittsburgh:
"Streetwalking in the Cinema of the City: Capital Flows through Hanoi"
Adrian Fielder, Northwestern University:
"Poaching on Public Space in the French Bainlieu Film: Cinema from the
Margins of the City (La haine)"

Strand C
Room C108
Justine Lloyd, University of Western Sydney, Nepean:
"The Politics of Dislocation: Airport Tales: The Castle"
James Lyons, University of Nottingham:
"Learning how to look at Seattle by watching an old movie set in New York"
Josh Stenger, Syracuse University:
"Return to Oz: The Hollywood Redevelopment Project, or Film History as 
Urban
Renewal"

Strand D
Room E114
Sharon Sekhon, University of Southern California:
"Los Angeles noir: Three Representations: Mildred Pierce (1945), The Blue
Gardenia (1953), and Crime Wave (1954)"
Elena Gorfinkel, New York University:
"Jacques Tati's Invisible City: The Pedestrian Body in Urban Terrain"
Genevieve Cimon and Allison Whitney, McGill University:
"Murder on 42nd Street: The Curious Violence of Busby Berkeley's Urban
Landscapes"




SESSION THREE
1630-1830 Saturday 13 March

Strand A
Theatre L
Charles Scruggs, University of Arizona:
"Undermining the Pastoral in Carl Franklin's One False Move"
Foster Hirsch, City University of New York:
"Images of the City in Neo-noir"
Edward Dimendberg, University of Michigan:
"Parallel Modernities: The City in Weimar Cinema and film noir"

Strand B
Theatre P
Aida Hozic, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York:
"WarZones/CinemaScapes and the Representation of Sarajevo"
Gloria Fulton, Humboldt State University, California:
"Hand in a Velvet Glove: Cinematic Prague"
Lydia Papadimitrou, Liverpool John Moores University:
"Athens in Popular Greek Cinema"

Strand C
Room C108
Mark Jancovich, University of Nottingham:
"Film Consumption and the City"
Paul Swann, Temple University, Philadelphia:
"Philadelphia: From Workshop to Backlot: The Greater Philadelphia Film
Office"
Janna Jones, University of South Florida:
"Finding a Place at the Downtown Picture Palace: The Tampa Theatre, Tampa,
Florida"

Strand D
Room E114
Shelley Martin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University:
"The Present Event: Antonioni and the City"
Mike Mason, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside:
"Social Realism and the Representation of the City in Mike Leigh's Naked"
Jessica Maynard, University of Wales, Bangor:
"Providential Universes from Siegel to Weir"




SESSION FOUR
1030-1230 Sunday 14 March

Strand A
Theatre L
Merrill Schleier, University of the Pacific:
"Men and their Skyscrapers in Vidor's The Fountainhead: Architectural
Discourse, The Gendered Body, and Capitalism"
Marshall Deutelbaum, Purdue University:
"Canaletto, the Golden Section, and the Set Design of Vincente Minnelli's
Widescreen Films"
Dietrich Neumann, Brown University:
"'House on the Haunted Hill': Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis-Brown House and
Hollywood Cinema"

Strand B
Theatre P
John Walton, University of California Davis:
"Film Mystery as Urban History: The Case of Chinatown and Los Angeles"
Diane Borden, University of the Pacific:
"San Francisco's Treacherous Terrain: Danger and Desire in Vertigo and The
Conversation"
Jude Davies, King Alfred's College, Winchester:
"Race, Automobiles and Space in Recent Films set in Los Angeles"

Strand C
Room C108
Laurent Marie, University College Dublin:
"Jacques Tati's Playtime as New Babylon"
Garin Dowd, Thames Valley University:
"City of the Forking Path: Deleuzian Fabulation in the Omnipolis as
envisioned in the work of Jacques Rivette"
Bill Marshall, University of Southampton:
"Montreal Between Strangeness, Home and Flow"

Strand D
Room E114
Anthony Coulson, Dublin City University:
"The Unknown City: Readings of the Underworld in G. W. Pabsts' Die
freundlose Gasse (The Joyless Street)"
Carsten Strathausen, University of Missouri:
"Uncanny Spaces: Walter Ruttmann's Berlin, Symphony of a City and Dziga
Vertov s The Man with the Movie Camera"
Martin Gaughan, University of Wales, Cardiff:
"Cinema, Architecture, Capitalism"




SESSION FIVE
1500-1700 Sunday 14 March

Strand A
Theatre L
Paula Massood, Vassar College:
"Urban Chronotopes: African-American Cities on the Screen"
Paul Gormley, University of East London:
"The Affective City and New Black Realism in Hollywood"
Liam Kennedy, University of Birmingham:
"Between Pathology and Redemption: The Underclass in American Cinema"

Strand B
Theatre P
Gary Baines, Rhodes University, Johannesburg:
"Representing the City in Early South African Cinema, with particular
reference to Uys's The Urgent Queue"
James Donald, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia:
"Cinema is to City as Television is to Suburbs"
Nori Morita, Waseda University, Tokyo:
"Competing Visions of Tokyo: The Films of Ozu, Imamura, and Oshima"

Strand C
Room C108
Tyrus Miller, Yale University:
"'Cut out from last year's moldering newspapers': Materialism and the 
Urban
Surreal in the Quay Brothers' Street of Crocodiles"
Graley Herren, Xavier University, Cincinnati:
"Predatory Perception in Samuel Beckett's Film"
Peter Jelavich, University of Texas, Austin:
"Subjectivity and the City in Piel Jutzl's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1931)"

Strand D
Room E114
Katarzyna Marciniak, Ohio University:
"Cinematic Exile: Living the Foreign Body on Screen: Roman Polanski's The
Tenant"
Gary Keller and Estela Keller, Arizona State University:
"Irish-Jewish Rivalries and Romances in the American City: From their 
Filmic
Beginnings through the Urban Inter-ethnic Movies of Joseph P. Kennedy"
Mark Neumann, University of South Florida: "Emigrating to New York in 3-D:
Stereoscopic Vision in IMAX's Cinematic City"

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For more information, or to register, please visit:

http://www.ucd.ie/~film/conf.htm

or contact:

Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice, Cinema and the City, Centre for Film
Studies, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Tel.: +353.1.7068629 (Mark Shiel)
Tel.: +353.1.7068327 (Tony Fitzmaurice)
Fax: +353.1.7068605


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