May 10th Workshop on Japanese Cinema (Leeds, UK)

[Julian Ross]

Hello everyone,

Just thought I'd post some information on a 
two-day workshop that is happening next week (May 10th (Mon) - May 11th 
(Tue)) at the University of Leeds, where David Desser, Ayako Saito, 
Lucia Nagib and Jasper Sharp amongst others will be presenting papers. 
May 10th is entirely devoted to 'The Japanese Case'.

Some 
information below, and for more information, please visit: 
http://www.mixedcinemanetwork.org/node/7

Thanks!

Julian

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May
 10th 'The Japanese Case'

 

09:00 - 10:00 – Coffee and
 registration

10:00 - 10:30 – Anya 
Benson (MCN York-Leeds) 'The Transformative Power of Place in 
Contemporary Japanese Children's Cinema'

10:30 - 11:00 – Julian 
Ross (MCN Leeds-Sheffield) 'Dialogues between ATG films and Angura 
theatre in 60s/70s Tokyo'

11:00 - 11:15 – Coffee 
break

11:15 - 11:45 – Jasper 
Sharp (MCN Sheffield-York)

11:45 - 12:15 – Michael 
Smith (WREAC Leeds-Sheffield) 'The Representation of Women in Postwar 
Japanese Cinema: Family, Rebellion, Desire'


 
12:15
 - 13:30 – Lunch 

13:30 - 14:15 – Prof
 David Desser (University of Illinois), 
‘Shojo Culture and the Mega-Text: Honey and Clover’   

14:15 - 15:00 – 
Professor Ayako Saito (Meiji Gakuin University),
 ‘Mizoguchi's  Taki no shiraito (Water Magician, 1933), a comparative 
study in literature, theatre and film’

15:00 - 15:45 – 
Professor Lúcia Nagib (Leeds) –'The Realm 
of the Senses, shunga and the eroticised apparatus' 

15:45 - 16:00 – Tea 
break

16:00 - 18:00 – Dr 
Mika Ko (Sheffield) 'Neo-Documentarism 
inMatsumoto Toshio's Funeral Parade of Roses'

                       
 Dr Irena Hayter (Leeds) Title to be 
confirmed

                       
 Dr Jonathan Rayner (Sheffield)

 


Part 2 – Perspectives on European and World Cinema


 

11/05/2010

 

09:30 – 10:15 – Prof
 Stephanie Donald (RMIT, Melbourne), 
‘Missing histories in film and art: the lost opportunities of wound 
film-making in the 1980s’

10:15 – 11:00 – Prof
 Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton),
 ‘Vernacular Modernism and the Mediatized City’

11:00 – 11:15 – 
Coffee break

11:15 – 12:00 – Prof
 Anne Jerslev (University of Copenhagen), 
‘Antichrist and the Danish/European debate’

12:00 - 12:45 – Dr 
Richard Smith (University of Sydney) 'Between
 Heaven and Earth: Simultaneity and National Cinema’

12:45 - 14:00 – 
Lunch

14:00 - 17:00 – 
Network Members to discuss further activities, 
grant proposals and outputs of the Mixed Cinema Network



The workshop is supported by the University of Leeds School of Modern
 Languages and Cultures and the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, the
 Great Britain Sasawaka Foundation and the White Rose East Asia Centre.


Further downloadable
 information is available below

If you are 
interested in attending the workshop, please contact 
Jenni Rauch (j.s.rauch at leeds.ac.uk) 		 	   		  
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http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/
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