[ecrea] International conference: Importing Asta Nielsen Conference (27-29 september 2011 - Frankfurt

International conference: Importing Asta Nielsen Conference (27-29 september 2011 - Frankfurt

We are pleased to inform you that there will be an international conference
on Asta Nielsen, "Importing Asta Nielsen Cinema-Going and the Making of the
Star System in the Early 1910s" in the German Film Museum at Frankfurt and
curated by Martin Loiperdinger, at Frankfurt over 27 to 29 September 2011,
just before le Giornate del cinema muto (Pordenone). You will find below a
presentation of the conference, all practical informations and the =20
Conference programm.

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*PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS*

Conference fee will be 30 Euro for three days, 15 Euros for one day.
Conference fee for students will be 15 Euro and 7,50 Euro respectively.

Participants please register up to 15 September 2011 via email at:
(nielsen /at/ deutsches-filminstitut.de)

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*PRESENTATION*
  International Conference: Frankfurt, German Film Museum, 27 to 29 Septembe=
r
2011
Importing Asta Nielsen
Cinema-Going and the Making of the Star System in the Early 1910s

Organised by Deutsches Filminstitut, Frankfurt, and Media Studies,
University of Trier,
in connection with KINtop

Curated by Martin Loiperdinger

Asta Nielsen has been the first renowned female star of world cinema. Her
name is inextricably connected with the advent of the long feature film and
the introduction of the star system. Her films played a crucial role in the
transition from short films to the long feature film as the main attraction
of the programme which took place in various countries, in the years before
the First World War.

Asta Nielsen=E2=80=99s international film career started in Germany with the
=E2=80=98invention=E2=80=99 of the Monopolfilm, the monopoly rental system, =
in late 1910.
Her films were distributed within this exclusive system and received
tremendous box-office records. The screen personality of the Danish actress
appealed to audiences of all sorts. Branded as =E2=80=98the Eleonora Duse of=
 Film
Art=E2=80=99 she uncontestedly was the most popular film actress with German=
 film
audiences in 1913.

But was this also the case with the many countries which imported Asta
Nielsen films before the First World War?
How was the distribution of her films organized in those countries?
Did the Danish actress indeed attract audiences in those countries as she
was able to do in Germany? And did her films also play a crucial role in
establishing the long feature film format as they did in Germany?
What about the reception of her films in so many countries with different
cultures and customs? How did censorship react to the provoking characters
which Asta Nielsen played on screen? How did trade periodicals and daily
newspapers respond to her screen personality?
And, last but not least, in which ways was Asta Nielsen on screen
appropriated and received by the varied audiences of so many countries,
varying not only in gender and class, but also in education, religion, and
life style? Is it possible to map different patterns of audience response to
Asta Nielsen films in different countries?

The conference will discuss various modes of distribution, exhibition,
appropriation, and reception of Asta Nielsen within countries of all
continents.

*Conference Programme*

27 September

09:00 =E2=80=93 10:00 Registration

10:00 =E2=80=93 10:15 Opening of the Conference

10:15 =E2=80=93 12:30
Panel 1: Asta Nielsen and the Emergence of the Star System in Germany

Martin Loiperdinger (Trier):
The German Model =E2=80=93 Asta Nielsen Monopolfilm Series

Andrea Haller (Frankfurt):
Asta Nielsen, the Introduction of the Long Feature Film and Female Audiences=
 =E2=80=93
the Case of Mannheim

Pierre Stotzky (Metz):
The Exhibition of Asta Nielsen Films in Metz

12:30 =E2=80=93 14:00 Lunch

14:00 =E2=80=93 15:30
Panel 2: Asta Nielsen in Austria-Hungary and Poland

Patric Blaser (Vienna):
Asta Nielsen in Austria-Hungary

Jakub Kl=C3=ADma (Brno):
Asta Nielsen in Brno

Andrzej Debski (Wroc=C5=82aw):
Asta Nielsen in Poland

15:30 =E2=80=93 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 =E2=80=93 17:30
Panel 3: Asta Nielsen in Small Countries =E2=80=93 Northern Europe

Anne Bachmann (Stockholm):
Public Response to Asta Nielsen=E2=80=99s Clash with the Censorship Board in=
 Sweden

Outi Hupaniittu (Turku):
=E2=80=9CThree times at the censorial office and nothing to remark, for you =
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with a special price=E2=80=9D =E2=80=93
Afgrunden's lucky escape and the new ways of promotion in Finland

Gunnar Iversen (Trondheim):
Asta Nielsen in Norway

18:00 Dinner

20:30 =E2=80=93 22:30
Cinema Lecture
Karola Gramann, Heide Schl=C3=BCpmann, (Frankfurt):
Asta Nielsen =E2=80=93 A Cinematic Phenomenon (followed by film screenings)


28 September

09:00 =E2=80=93 10:30
Panel 4. The First Filmstar =E2=80=93 Asta Nielsen in Italy and Russia

Giovanni Lasi (Bologna):
Italy's First Film Star - Asta Nielsen, 'Polaris'

Lauri Piispa (Turku):
Marketing Russia=E2=80=99s First Film Star =E2=80=93 Asta Nielsen in the Rus=
sian Trade Press

10:30 =E2=80=93 11: 00 Coffee Break

11:00 =E2=80=93 13:00
Panel 5: Asta Nielsen in Great Britain and the US
Jon Burrows (Coventry):
'"The Great Asta Nielsen", "The Shady Exclusive" and the birth of film =20
censorship in Britain, 1911-1914'

Richard Abel (Ann Arbor):
The Flickering Career of Asta Nielsen in the US, 1912 =E2=80=93 1913

13:00 =E2=80=93 14:30 Lunch

14:30 =E2=80=93 16:00
Panel 6: The Emergence of the Long Feature Film in Denmark

Caspar Tybjerg (Copenhagen):
Hjamlar Davidson, His Kosmorama Cinema, and Afgrunden

Isak Thorsen (Copenhagen):
The M=C3=BClleneisen Case: Asta Nielsen and Nordisk Films Compagni

16:00 =E2=80=93 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 =E2=80=93 17:00
Panel 7: Film Stars and Marketing Policies in the Early 1910s

Caroline Henkes (Trier):
Asta Nielsen and Her Poor Female Characters of 1911

Ian Christie (London):
 From Screen Personalities to Divas =E2=80=93 Early Film Stars in Europe

19:00 Dinner


29 September

09:00 =E2=80=93 11:00
Panel 8: Strange Encounters =E2=80=93 Asta Nielsen in Arabia and the Far Eas=
t

Ouissal Mejri (Bologne):
Asta Nielsen in Egypt and Tunisia

Sawako Ogawa / Hiroshi Komatsu (Tokyo):
Asta Nielsen in Japan

Stephen Bottomore (Bangkok): Asta Nielsen in Australasia


11:00 =E2=80=93 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 =E2=80=93 13:30
Panel 9: Asta Nielsen in Small Countries =E2=80=93 Western and Central Europ=
e

Ansje van Beusekom (Utrecht):
Distributing, programming and recycling Asta Nielsen films in the Netherland=
s

Paul Lesch (Luxembourg):
"Earning the audience's unbridled applause" - Asta Nielsen in Luxembourg

Mattia Lento (Zurich) / Pierre-Emmanuel Jaques (Lausanne):
Asta Nielsen in Switzerland

13:30 =E2=80=93 14:30 Lunch

14:30 =E2=80=93 16:00
Panel 10: Digital Tools for Comparative Research in the Emergence of =20
the Star System

Karel Dibbets (Amsterdam):
The Cinema in Context Database

Joseph Garncarz (Cologne):
The Siegen Database

N.N. (Brno):
The Local Cinema History Database on Brno

16:00 =E2=80=93 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 =E2=80=93 17.30
Comments and Closing Discussion

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