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Thursday 18 July

10.30 -

Registration (Showroom foyer)

1.00 - 2.00

Coffee (café and foyer)

2.00 - 2.15

Welcome and introduction (Cinema 3)

2.15 - 3.30

Plenary 1 (Cinema 3) Two Perspectives on World Trade in Film and Television

Speakers: Professor Hussein Amin, American University, Cairo;
............. Professor Manjunath Pendakur, Southern Illinois University, USA

3.30 - 4.00

Tea (foyer)

4.00 - 5.30

Seminar 1A (Cinema 1)

1 Lindsay Barrett
At the edge of empire

2 May Ingawanij
The bourgeoisification of a ‘vulgar’ popular cultural form: Nang Nak and Thai cinema’s current ‘renaissance’

3 Susan Mains
Paradise Lost? Film, Mobility and Jamaican Identities

Seminar 1B (Cinema 2)

1 Rayna Denison
No Longer Indigenous: The International Blockbuster

2 Jason Scott
Marketing the national as international: marking the international as national (dogme 95, dogma 95)

3 Jeongmee Kim
Billy Elliot: Promoting British Cinema in the USA

Seminar 1C (Cinema 3)

1 Simon Blanchard
Challenging 'Free Trade' in Culture - Issues, Problems and Prospects

2 Graham Murdock
The Political Economy of Fraternity: The Cultural Commons in the Age of Convergence

6.00 - 7.00

Reception

8.45 -

Screening: The Terrorist - Santosh Sivan, India, 1998

Friday 19 July

8.30 -

Registration (Showroom foyer)

9.30 - 11.00

Seminar 2A (Cinema 1)

1 Paul Marris
The North of England on Screen

2 Martin McLoone
Media policy in Ireland

3 Sylvia Harvey
Broadcasting regulation in defence of indigenous production

Seminar 2B (Cinema 2)

1 Steve Chibnall
Rule, Cool and Ghoul Britannia: Varieties of the British Cinema Export Brand

2 Andrew Higson
Crossing over: exporting indigenous heritage to the USA

Seminar 2C (Cinema 3)

1 Terry Flew
Standards, culture, services: Tradeable television and changing conceptions of broadcasting policy

2 Albert Moran
Changing power relations in international television industries: from factory to franchise

11.00 -11.30

Coffee (café and foyer)

11.30 - 1.00

Seminar 3A (Cinema 1)

1 Chris Grace
Working with the World: The Experience of Animation Co-production at Sianel Pedwar Cymru (S4C, the Welsh Fourth Channel)

2 Jeanette Steemers
Selling British Television

Seminar 3B (Cinema 2)

1 Michael Chanan
Negotiating the exotic in Latin American cinema

2 Roy Armes
Cultural Hybridity and Maghreb Cinema

Seminar 3C (Cinema 3)

1 Steve Neale
Exchanging Adventure: British, American and un-American Involvement in TV Costume Adventure Series in the 1950s

2 Tom Ryall
'Vacuous internationalism' - Anthony Asquith and the 'mid-Atlantic film' of the 1960s

3 Sheldon Hall
Internationalism and the Epics of Samuel Bronston

1.00 - 2.30

Lunch

2.30 - 4.00

Seminar 4A (Cinema 1)

1 Television Format Sales in China
Speakers tbc

Seminar 4B (Cinema 2)

1 Sarah Street
Special relationships: Anglo-American screen romance and nationality

2 Pam Cook
Cultural Exchange and Memory in The Archers I Know Where I'm Going

Seminar 4C (Cinema 3)

Nations and Regions: A UK Case Study

1 Steve McIntyre
Film development in Scotland

2 Colin Pons
Developing film and new media in Yorkshire and the English regions

3 Richard Taylor
Developing Film in Northern Ireland

4 Berwyn Rowlands
SGRIN - Media Agency for Wales. Developing Film in Wales

4.00 - 4.30

Tea (foyer)

4.30 - 6.00

Plenary 2 (Cinema 3) Culture and Commerce: International Trade and National Culture

Speakers: Carole Tongue, Citigate, former Member of the European Parliament, UK;
............. Elizabeth McDonald, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Film and Television Production Association

8.45 -

Screening: The Circle, Jafar Panahi, Iran, 2001

Saturday 20 July

8.30 -

Registration (Showroom foyer)

9.30 - 11.00

Seminar 5A (Cinema 1)

1 Paul McDonald
Themed Television Channels in Europe: Specialised Entertainment Services and Imagined Lifestyle Communities

2 Dima Dabbous
Al Jazeera Television: Renewing Cross Border News in the Arab World

3 Haim Bresheeth
USA vs. EU: The Media Wars

Seminar 5B (Cinema 2)

1 John Sedgwick
Gaumont British in America 1934-36

2 Mark Glancy
Selling Hitchcock's British Films in America

Seminar 5C (Cinema 3)

Copycat TV in Asia and the Pacific: Issues and national findings

1 Albert Moran
From Formats To Franchise: Cloning in Australian TV

2 Justin Malbon
Pirate spotting: Defining formats legally speaking

3 Michael Keane
Into Shangrila: making Survivor in the Tibetan liberated zone

11.00 -11.30

Coffee (café and foyer)

11.30 - 1.00

Seminar 6A (Cinema 1)

1 Dina Iordanova
From Cold War Paraphernalia to Esoteric Exotica: Eastern Europe's Hard Sells

2 Peter Kramer
German Nationality/Hollywood Patriotism: The transatlantic tales of Wolfgang Petersen, Roland Emmerich and Oskar Schindler

3 Michael Richardson
Between Expectation and Wonder: The experience of viewing films cross-culturally

Seminar 6B (Cinema 2)

1 Heather Beaton
Too many solitudes? Globalization and the challenge of communications regulation - lessons from Canada

2 John Sinclair
'The Hollywood of Latin America': Miami as Regional Centre in Television Trade

3 Francisco Hernandez Llomeli
An Investigation of the Circumstances Favouring the Internationalisation of Mexican Television

Seminar 6C (Cinema 3)

1 Duncan Petrie
How Scottish is it?: The Indigenous Cultural Engagement and International Circulation of Recent Scottish Film

2 Lucia Najib
The Rebirth and International Circulation of Brazilian Cinema Since the Mid 1990s

1.00 - 2.30

Lunch

2.30 - 4.00

Plenary 3 (Cinema 3) Cultural Diversity, Cultural Difference and the Trade in Film

Speakers: Lluis Artigas de Quadras, UNESCO, Paris
............. Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, University of Luton, UK
............. Professor Tino Balio, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

4.00 -

Tea (foyer)

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