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...18-20 July 2002 - Showroom Cinema - Sheffield - UK

A CONFERENCE EXPLORING THE 'INDIGENOUS' AND THE 'EXPORTABLE' IN FILM AND TELEVISION CULTURE

Conference themes:
Trading Culture explores the concepts of the 'indigenous' and the 'exportable' in film and television culture, drawing examples from a wide range of countries and periods. The international trade in film was established in the early part of the twentieth century. By the start of the twenty-first century this has extended to include an increasingly global trade in television programmes and a re-working of the concept of 'export' in the era of satellite and internet.
Keynote speakers from the Arab world, from Canada, the United States, the European Union and UNESCO consider these developments in the light of current World Trade Organisation talks and the tension between trade liberalisation and cultural diversity.
Around 50 speakers from eight countries explore the role of cinema and televsion in national life and minority culture, addressing questions of cultural identity andthe search for new markets and audiences in periods of economic and political change.
The seminar sessions will include two specialist panels on 'Nations and Regions: A UK Case Study' and 'Television Programme Format Trade in the Asia Pacific Region'.

Keynote Speakers:

Saturday 20 July
2.30 - 4.00	Plenary 3 (Cinema 3) Cultural Diversity, Cultural Difference and the Trade in Film
	Speakers:	Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, University of Luton, UK Title tbc. Professor Tino Balio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Hollywood’s Takeover of the US Art Film Market in the 1960s Speaker from UNESCO tbc. The World Cinema Survey and Cultural Diversity Policy
	Biographies:	Tino Balio Tino Balio is a Professor of Film in the Communication Arts Department and Executive Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arts Institute. He joined the University of Wisconsin faculty in 1966. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the American film industry, including a two-volume history of United Artists Corporation and a book entitled Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930-1939, which was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1993. From 1966 to 1983, he served as Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, an archive jointly sponsored by the University of Wisconsin and the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. In 2001, Balio was selected as an inaugural Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and has received a $25,000 grant from the Academy to write a comprehensive institutional history of foreign films and their influence on American film culture.

Conference Programme:
Thursday 18th July

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Contact:

Registration:
Ann Jones, Birkbeck, University of London

Conference Organiser:
Professor Sylvia Harvey, Sheffield Hallam University

Conference Co-ordinator:
Any queries about the conference programme or timetable should be addressed to Linda Marshall, Sheffield Hallam University (Telephone: +44 (0)114 225 2701)