Blog Entries

‘Rethinking Chinese Film Industry: New Methods, New Histories’ Conference

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 22:20:01 +0100

8-9 October 2010

Hong Kong

As an important element of the world cinema, Chinese-language cinema has a long history almost as long as film itself. Yet it only started to attract serious scholarly attention in the mid-1980s, and most of the important work thus far has been focused on contemporary Chinese-language films over the last three to four decades.

The 'Rethinking Chinese Film Industry: New Methods, New Histories' conference held on 8-9 Octob [...]

Simon Field: Congratulations on the Palme d'Or

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:15:41 +0100

Thai film production, LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT (Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives) has won the Palme d'Or - Feature Films at this year's Cannes Film Festival. We would like to send our warmest congratulations to director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and producer Simon Field on their wonderful achievement. Simon, formerly Director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival, is member of the Dynamics of World Cinema research project's International Advisory Board, and has supported our wo [...]

Member of the Advisory Board Opens Film Bookshops

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:06:04 +0100

Yoram Allon, owner of Wallflower Press and member of the International Advisory Board, has diversified into bookselling with two new recently opened film-themed bookshops in London, Cinephilia East and Cinephilia West (Coffee, Croissants and Cinema).

Congratulations!

See more information and a virtual tour at www.cinephilia.co.uk.

Michael Curtin: New Appointment at UC Santa Barbara

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:49:55 +0100

Prof. Michael Curtin, a member of the International Advisory Board, has moved from the University of Wisconsin to become the Film and Media Studies Mellichamp Professor at the University of California Santa Barbara. Congratulations!

Formerly the director of Global Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Curtin also has held teaching or research appointments at Northwestern University, Indiana University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Institute of Ethnology [...]

Michael Guillen's Blog Post about FFY1

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:50:02 +0100

Michael Guillen has published further writing on the Film Festival Yearbook 1: The Festival Circuit at his blog, The Evening Class.

To read his review, click here.

Report on Film Festival Workshop in Film International

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:05:01 +0100

Serazer Pekerman's report on the Film Festival Workshop in April 2009 has been published in Film International, Vol. 7, Issue 3, pp. 94-97, along with other interesting reports on festivals like Africa in Motion (Edinburgh) and the Richmond French Film Festival.

Film Festival Workshop - Video Clips

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:31:51 +0100

During the Film Festival Workshop held on 4 April 2009 in St Andrews, our discussants talked about some of the most pressing issues that were concerned with the development of Film Festival Studies.

Click here to hear what they said:

Clip 1

Michael Gubbins, former Editor, Screen International, UK

Clip 2

Richard Porton, Editor, Cineaste Magazine, USA

Clip 3

Nick Roddick (aka Mr. Busy), film journalist and critic, Sight & Sound, UK< [...]

Radio Interview (STAR, University of St Andrews)

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:01:46 +0100

Please click here cinema.mp3 for the radio interview that DWC team members, Dr Ruby Cheung and Dr Ragan Rhyne, did with St Andrews Radio (STAR) -- the student run radio station serving the St Andrews area in Scotland and beyond. The programme was aired at 8pm on 23 March 2009.

Talk on Digital Cinema

wyrc@st-andrews.ac.uk — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:20:53 +0100

On 24 February 2009, the Centre for Film Studies hosted a talk on digital cinema by Mr J. Ron Inglis, the newly-appointed, first Director of the new development agency Regional Screen Scotland. Ron is one of the UK's most experienced and respected authorities on cinema exhibition in both their development and operation, and on wider strategic development. A graduate of University of St Andrews, Ron has worked in the field of cinema and media for over 30 years. He is an independent consultant [...]

Film Festivals - Questions

rar10@st-andrews.ac.uk — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:37:14 +0100

In preparation for the upcoming Film Festival Yearbook, which will be available from Wallflower Press in May, we had the opportunity to ‘pick the brain' of festival professionals about how their festivals fit into the international dynamics of the festival circuit.

We posed the following questions to them and have received some insightful responses. Check back soon to see their answers; others will be published in the Yearbook. In the meantime, we invite other festival programme [...]

BBC Radio Show September 2008

luddweb@gmail.com — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

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Blog - Welcome Message

luddweb@gmail.com — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0100

Thank you for visiting the Dynamics of World Cinema blog. We will post here our ideas and latest research findings on the global distribution of films, in the hope of opening up discussions that will bring forth insights into this topic and relevant concerns. Your valuable comments and feedback are more than welcome. Please join our discussions by clicking open the 'comment' next to each entry.

Hope to hear from you soon!