Breaking Boundaries: Alternative Approaches to Japanese Film All-Day Symposium (FREE) (UK) Programme

[Julian Ross]

Breaking Boundaries: Alternative
Approaches to Japanese Film’

 

All-day Symposium

November 6th 2010.
9:45 – 20:00

ICS Cinema (Clothworkers North
Building LT 2.31), University of Leeds, UK

As part of the 24th
Leeds International Film Festival (www.leedsfilm.com)

FREE EVENT!

 

Please visit http://www.mixedcinemanetwork.org/node/80 for more information and to download the
full programme notes and detailed directions.

 

Please contact us at bbconf2010 at googlemail.com if you have any questions. Please e-mail us
to register your name onto our list as our space is limited!!

 

Keynote Speech: Tony Rayns

(BFI; Sight and Sound; London
Film Festival; Vancouver Film Festival)

 

Panel Discussion: Programming
Japanese Cinema at International Film Festivals

            Participants:
Tony Rayns, Jasper Sharp (Zipangu Fest) and Tom Vincent (Bradford International
Film Festival)

 

Screening: Children of the
Beehive (Shimizu, 1948) introduced by Tony Rayns

            Courtesy
of Zipangu Fest (www.zipangufest.com)

 

Papers:

 

Panel 1: Japanese Cinema: Within
and Beyond the Nation

Chistopher Howard (SOAS,
University of London)

            Nagata Masaichi and the challenge of transnational Japanese
cinema

Oliver Dew (Birkbeck, University
of London)

            “Zainichi cinema” in
emergence

Kate E Taylor (Bangor University)

            Divine
Work or Celluloid Collaboration’: the Transnational Vision of Japanese Colonial
Cinema

 

Panel 2: Intertextuality and Interdisciplinarity
in Japanese Cinema

Adam Strickson (University of Leeds)

            His Bloody Materials: Reasons for Adapting
Masumura’s Red Angel into a
tragic opera set in 1990s Sudan

Anya Benson (University of York)

            Rethinking technology and identity in Japanese children’s
franchises

 

Panel 3: Questions of Gender in
Japanese Cinema

Alicia Kozma (Hunter College, New
York)

            Pinky Violence: Shock, Awe, and the Exploitation of Sexual
Liberation            

Alejandra Armendariz (University Rey
Juan Carlos, Madrid)

            Alternative
Representation of Sexual Difference in Contemporary Japanese Cinema Made by
Women Directors

Jasper Sharp (University of Sheffield)

            Where are the Women
in the Japanese Film Industry?

 

Panel 4: Reception of Japanese Cinema: Home and Abroad

Christina Zimmermann (Bauhaus
University, Weimar)

            Juggling with cultural stereotypes: The light humour of Naoko
Ogigami

Virginia Crisp (Goldsmiths, University of London)

            ‘BLOODY PIRATES!!! *shakes fist*’:
Re-imagining East Asian Film Distribution & Reception through Online
Filesharing Networks

Aimee Richmond (University of Sheffield)

            Title
tbc

 

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