[eccr] Off-Screen Spaces: Regionalism and Globalised Cultures

AHRB Centre for British Film and Television Studies
and
The Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers:

Off-Screen Spaces: Regionalism and Globalised Cultures
(An international conference on Film, Television and Media Cultures and 
Policies)
July 28-30 2004,
University of Ulster,
Coleraine (Portrush Campus)

This major international conference will explore the relationship between 
'global' popular culture and various definitions of 'local' culture. 
Crucial to an understanding of this relationship is the concept of 'the 
region' as this has become reconfigured by global economic and cultural 
forces. Regional cultures exist in relation to and in opposition to 
dominant national cultures in complex and contradictory ways. National 
cultures themselves are often posited as regional cultures in opposition to 
the global and the concept of 'critical regionalism' has been canvassed as 
a challenge to global conformity. On the other hand, in line with the 
strategies of multinational corporations more generally, multinational 
software manufacturers have divided the global market into 'regions' for 
the purpose of controlling the DVD market. This would suggest that, despite 
the fact that regional cultures seem to offer alternatives to the global 
market there appears to be nothing intrinsically challenging or radical in 
the concept of the region.

The conference will explore the complex and contradictory relationships 
among the local, the regional, the national and the global and assess the 
implications for both media representation and local, national and 
transnational audio-visual policy. Central to discussions will be the 
concept of comparative film studies and a number of papers will address the 
rationale and theoretical implications of comparative media research.

Confirmed speakers so far include Toby Miller, John Hill and Paul Willemen. 
Conference sessions will include the following themes:
  Ukania and the Cultural Break-up of Britain
The Future for European National Cinemas
Irish Cinema and other small Anglophone cinemas
The BBC Charter Renewal Debate
Five Years of the Film Council
Globalised Hollywood
Comparative Film Studies
Asian Cinemas
Third Cinema Now
Exhibition and world cinema in Britain/Ireland





Call For Papers

Papers are invited which address any of the themes of the conference but 
which especially explore:
regional, national, global cinemas:
readings of particular films/filmmakers;
regional, national, global television;
globalised media and cultural identities;
national or regional policies;
independence/dependence etc;
comparative film or media studies;
critical regionalism

Abstracts of between 150-200 words should be e-mailed or sent on disk to 
the address below. The deadline for abstracts is 23 April 2004.

Please note that paper presenters need to register for the conference and 
pay the registration fee.
Abstracts and Enquiries to:
Janet 
Mackle                                                               Martin 
McLoone
Conference Co-ordinator                                        Conference 
Organiser
Cultural 
Development                                                  Centre for 
Media Research
University of Ulster
Coleraine
Northern Ireland
BT52 1SA

Tel: +44 (0) 28 7032 4683
e-mail: (spacesconf /at/ ulster.ac.uk)


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