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[ecrea] "Geography, Film, and Visual Culture" symposium
Fri Apr 25 07:32:10 GMT 2014
GEOGRAPHY, FILM, AND VISUAL CULTURE
A one-day symposium hosted by the King's Interdisciplinary Social
Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC)
Supported by the Department of Film Studies, King's College London
0930-1650, Wednesday, 30th April 2014
Nash Lecture Theatre, K2.31, King's Building
Strand Campus, King's College London
In the past twenty years, there has been a surge in scholarly interest
in the relationship between geography, film, and visual culture as part
of a broader reconfiguration of the relationship between the humanities
and social sciences. This has entailed an increasing tendency among
historians and theorists of film and other visual media to think
geographically, use geographical methods, and draw on the work of
particular geographers; and it has entailed an increasing interest among
geographers in the forms and practices of visual media as objects of
study, and in issues of representation. Studies of the city, landscape,
place, and globalization have been especially enriched by this trend.
This one-day symposium is intended to provide an opportunity to reflect
on these developments and speculate on their future, to hear a range of
papers from various disciplinary backgrounds, and to discuss some key
questions around which they revolve: What is the value of thinking about
film and visual culture geographically? What insights and methods can
those based in the arts and humanities gain from geography? What can
geographers learn from a consideration of film and visual culture that
they cannot learn from other sources? What insights from the arts and
humanities can geographers put into action in their own work?
Attendance at the symposium is free of charge, though prior registration
is strongly advised as places are limited. No prior study of the
geography/film/visual culture intersection is required – the event is
designed to be of interest to specialists and non-specialists alike. All
are welcome.
0930-1000 Dr Mark Shiel (Film Studies and KISS-DTC, KCL), Welcome
and Opening remarks
1000-1100 Keynote 1, Professor Stanley Corkin (Comparative
Literature, Cincinnati), "The Spaces of cinema and the places of films:
Hollywood and (mostly) urban geography"
1100-1120 Tea and coffee (provided)
1120-1250 Panel 1
Dr Martha Shearer (Film Studies, KCL), "Place, genre and studio
production: New York and the Hollywood musical"
Viktoria Vona, (Geography, KCL), "Artivist documentaries: Resisting
gentrification in New York and London"
Searle Kochberg (Creative Technologies, Portsmouth), "Finding place in
[sub]urban space: Gay Jewish Male life stories filmed on the streets of
London"
1250-1350 Lunch (buffet provided)
1350-1450 Keynote 2, Professor Matthew Gandy (Geography, UCL),
"Cinematic Landscapes"
1450-1510 Tea and coffee (provided)
1510-1610 Panel 2
Dr Johan Andersson (Geography, KCL), "Dispossession and the picturesque:
the ruinous cinematic landscape of New York City 1980-1985"
Dr Jinhee Choi (Film Studies, KCL), "Korean gangsters in urban spaces:
Seoul, Busan or somewhere near"
1610-1650 Roundtable discussion
**To register, or for any enquiries, please contact:**
Dr Mark Shiel, Department of Film Studies, King's College London, The
Strand, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
(mark.shiel /at/ kcl.ac.uk)
Department of Film Studies, King's College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/index.aspx
King's Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre (KISS-DTC)
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/school/dtc/welcome.aspx
Symposium web page
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/eventrecords/2014/gfvc.aspx
Biographies of speakers
Johan Andersson is Lecturer in Urban and Cultural Geography at King's
College London. He has a BA in literature and art history from Stockholm
University and a PhD from the Bartlett, UCL Faculty of the Built
Environment, on contemporary queer nightlife in London. He is the
co-author of Planning on the Edge: The Context for Planning at the
Rural-Urban Fringe (Routledge, 2006) and has published essays in
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Annals of the
Association of American Geographers, Antipode, and Urban Studies.
Recently, he has turned to cinema in an attempt to merge Marxist
methodological approaches from urban geography with work on
spectatorship in Film Studies. The first output from this research is an
article on Michael Haneke's Code Unknown in Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space (vol. 31, 2013).
Jinhee Choi is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at King's College London.
With a BA and MA in Aesthetics from Seoul National University she also
has two PhDs — one in Philosophy and the other in Film Studies — from
the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her books include the monograph The
South Korean Film Renaissance: Local Hitmakers, Global Provocateurs
(Wesleyan UP, 2010) and two co-edited volumes, Horror to the Extreme:
Changing Boundaries in Asian Cinema, with Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Hong
Kong UP, 2009) and Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions in Film Theory,
Practice and Spectatorship, with Matthias Frey (Routledge, 2013).
Recently, she has also published the book chapters "Exiled in Macau:
Hong Kong Neo-Noir and Paradoxical Lyricism", in E. Yau & T. Williams
(eds.), Hong Kong Neo-Noir (Hong Kong UP, 2013) and "Multinational Casts
and Epistemic Risk: The Case of Pan-Asian Cinema", in M. Hjort (ed.),
Film and Risk (Wayne State UP, 2012).
Stanley Corkin is a Professor in the Department of English and
Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati and one of the
most important historians of film and media whose work examines the
interaction of cinema, media and cities. He is the author of Starring
New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s (Oxford
UP, 2011), Cowboys as Cold Warriors: The Western and U.S. History
(Temple UP, 2004) and Realism and the Birth of the Modern United States:
Cinema, Literature, and Culture (Georgia UP, 1996). His fourth monograph
The Wire: Space, Race, and the Wonders of Post-Industrial Baltimore is
forthcoming from University of Texas Press in 2014.
Matthew Gandy is a Professor in the Department of Geography at
University College London. He is the author of Concrete and Clay:
Reworking Nature in New York City (MIT Press, 2002) and the editor of
The Return of the White Plague: Global Poverty and the 'New'
Tuberculosis (with Alimuddin Zumla; Verso, 2003), Hydropolis: Wasser und
die Stadt der Modene (with Susanne Frank; Frankfurt: Campus, 2006),
Urban Constellations (Berlin: Jovis, 2011), and The Acoustic City (with
B. J. Nilsen, Berlin: Jovis, 2014). He has contributed essays on film to
Screening the City (Shiel and Fitzmaurice, eds, Verso, 2003), Landscape
and Film (Lefebvre, Routledge, 2006), Geography and the Humanities
(Richardson et al, eds, Routledge, 2010), and The Blackwell Companion to
Werner Herzog (Praeger, ed., Blackwell, 2012). His next monograph, The
Fabric of Space: Water, Modernity, and the Urban Imagination, is
forthcoming with MIT Press.
Searle Kochberg is a maker of and writer on cinema and other performing
arts. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the University of Portsmouth in
Auto-ethnographic Film and Jewish London. He teaches film studies,
directing and script (fiction and nonfiction) at the same institution.
His short films have included Leaving the Table (2007) and L'Esprit de
l'Escalier (2010) both of which enjoyed exposure at several
international film festivals. He has edited the textbook Introduction to
Documentary Production (2002) and contributed to Introduction to Film
Studies (2012) and Promotion in the Age of Convergence (2012). His only
play, Isle of Joy was presented as a workshop performance at the Tristan
Bates Theatre, London, 2007.
Martha Shearer completed her PhD in Film Studies at King's College
London in 2013. Her doctoral research concerned the relationship between
New York City's postwar transformation and its representation in the
Hollywood musical. She teaches film and media studies at King's and the
LSE and has also taught at Kingston University and Royal Holloway,
University of London.
Mark Shiel is Reader in Film Studies and Urbanism in the Department of
Film Studies at King's College London. He is the author of two
monographs - Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles (Reaktion Books,
2012) and Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City (Wallflower
Press/Columbia University Press, 2006) - and the editor of Cinema and
the City: Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context (Blackwell, 2001)
and Screening the City (Verso, 2003), both with Tony Fitzmaurice. He is
currently editing and contributing to a collection of new essays
entitled Architectures of Revolt: The Cinematic City circa 1968 (Temple
UP, forthcoming 2015). At King's, he is also the convener of Theme 8 of
the King's Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Doctoral Training Centre
(KISS-DTC) which deals with "Urbanization, Globalization, and Social
Change".
Viktoria Vona is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at King's College
London where she is also a member of the Cities Group. Having spent the
first decade of her life in communist Hungary, she experienced rapid
social change first hand, developing interests in democracy and social
and economic equality which she pursued in art by completing a BA in
Fine Art at Central Saint Martins College of Art. The topic of her PhD
is 'The Role of Artists in Resisting Gentrification in London and New
York City'.
Dr Mark Shiel
Reader in Film Studies and Urbanism
Department of Film Studies
King's College London
The Strand, London WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44-20-78482024
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/filmstudies/index.aspx
http://www.markshiel.com/
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