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Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts

4 Mar 2013

Conference, Film Studies at University College Cork, Thursday April 18 to Saturday April 20, 2013

 

Ireland and Cinema: Culture and Contexts

Conference by Film Studies at University College Cork

Thursday April 18 to Saturday April 20

 

This three-day international conference will facilitate discussions, presentations and debates across a wide spectrum of subjects in the broadest definition of the field of “Ireland and Cinema”.

We are delighted to have in attendance highly-respected key note speakers from the field. Our guest speakers are:

Dr Ruth Barton (Trinity College Dublin)

Prof. Brian McIlroy (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)

Prof. Martin McLoone (University of Coleraine)

Prof. Diane Negra (University College Dublin)

 

As well as these plenary sessions, panels are titled as follows:

  • Alternative Spaces: representations and exhibition
  • The Body on Screen
  • Contemporary Trends
  • Ethnicity and Identity
  • The Fifties and Sixties
  • Foreign Perspectives
  • A Gothic Turn
  • History and Cinema
  • Nation and identity abroad
  • Location, place and home
  • Production Practices
  • Representing Crime
  • Symbols, screens and sounds
  • Troubles Cinema

 

 For further information, please contact Barry Monahan, Film Studies, UCC:

b.monahan@ucc.ie or on +353 (0)21 4902515

Department of Film and Screen Media

Scannánaíocht agus Meáin Scáileán

O'Rahilly Building, University College Cork, Ireland

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