Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network
About the Research NetworkCultures, Histories and Identities is a research network dedicated to presenting themes relating to the development of culture and identity in film, media and literature, exploring in particular the issues relating to the formation of identity in the aftermath of post-colonialism, post-feminism, and post-modernism and in the context of contemporary globalization. An interdisciplinary network, it has as its goal to foster new research by bringing together researchers with common interests from different disciplines using different methodologies. Its aim will be to encourage productive dialogue on the general topics of identity, history, culture and social change, with emphasis on film, television, new media and literatures, including national literatures and cinemas. Convenor and Co-convenor details
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Postgraduate Executive MembersRebecca Aronsen Clément Da Gama Gabrielle Hine Teri Higgins Jo Murphy Ellen Pullar Maria Pozza Erica Todd PublicationsNetwork Sponsored PublicationsEditorial ActivitiesFox, Alistair, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner, eds. New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting the Past. Bristol/Chicago: Intellect/University of Chicago, forthcoming 2011. (with the Centre for Research on National Identity) Fox, Alistair, Murray Pratt and Hilary Radner, eds. “Strange Localities: Utopias, Intellectuals, and National Identities in the 21st Century”[special issue], Portal: Journal of Multidisciplinary International Studies 2:2 (2005). [ISSN 144-9-2490] http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/ojs/index.php/portal/issue/view/6 Fowler, Catherine, and Rochelle Simmons, eds. Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume One: Refereed Abstracts. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. Radner, Hilary, and Rebecca Springer, eds. Feminism at the Multiplex. (under review). Radner, Hilary, and Pamela Fossen, eds. Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Select Refereed Full Papers. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. (with the Centre for Research on National Identity) Radner, Hilary, Alistair Fox and Irène Bessière, eds. Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. Select Book Chapters, Articles, etc.Bendrups, Dan. “The Representation of Rapanui (Easter Island) in Feature Film.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pamela Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 135-146. Brookes, Barbara. “Cinema and the Interpretation of 1950s New Zealand History: John O’Shea and Roger Mirams, Broken Barrier (1952).” In New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting History, ed. Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner. Bristol: Intellect/University of Chicago, 2011 (forthcoming). Cooper, Annabel. “Tracking Titokowaru Over Text and Screen: P?keh? Narrate the Warrior, 1906-2006.” In New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting History, ed. Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner. Bristol: Intellect/University of Chicago, 2011 (forthcoming). Cooper, Annabel. “On Viewing Jane Campion as an Antipodean.” In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity, ed. Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irène Bessière. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 279-304. Cooper, Annabel. “‘I Am Isabel, You Know?’: The Antipodean Framing of Jane Campion’s Portrait of a Lady.” M/C Journal 11, no. 5 (Oct. 2008). http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/99. Devadas, Vijay. “Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema,” Senses of Cinema, no. 41 (October-December 2006). http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/06/41/transnational-tamil-cinema.html Fossen, Pamela. “Getting the Story Crooked: Errol Morris and Narrativist Historiography.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pam Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 163-171. Fox, Alistair. “'Cinema in a City at the Furthest Edge of Empire: The Role of Motion Picture Theatres in Colonial Dunedin, New Zealand, 1896-1922. ” In Ville et Cinéma, ed.Roger Odin, Laurent Creton, Kira Kitsopanidou and Irène Bessière ( in progress). Fox. Alistair. “The Historical Film in New Zealand Cinema: An Overview.” In New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting History, ed. Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner. Bristol: Intellect/University of Chicago, 2011 (forthcoming). Fox, Alistair. “Rudall Hayward and the Cinema of Maoriland: Genre-mixing in Rewi’s Last Stand (1925), The Te Kooti Trail (1927), and Rewi’s Last Stand/The Last Stand (1940).”In New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting History, ed. Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner. Bristol: Intellect/University of Chicago, 2011 (forthcoming). Fox, Alistair. “Puritanism and the Erotics of Transgression: The New Zealand Influence in Jane Campion’s Thematic Imaginary.” In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity, ed. Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irène Bessière. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 103-124. Jones, Lawrence. “‘I can really see myself in her story’: Jane Campion’s Adaptation of Janet Frame’s Autobiography.” In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity, ed. Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irène Bessière. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 77-100. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “The Life of Lady Lazarus? An Analysis of the Film Sylvia as Historical Document.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pam Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 182-191. Radner, Hilary. “Screening Women’s Histories: Jane Campion and the New Zealand Heritage Film, from the Biopic to the Female Gothic.” In New Zealand Cinema: Interpreting History, ed. Alistair Fox, Barry Keith Grant and Hilary Radner. Bristol: Intellect/University of Chicago, 2011 (forthcoming). Radner, Hilary. “‘In extremis’: Jane Campion and the Woman’s Film.” In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity, ed. Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irène Bessière. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 3-24. Ramaeker, Paul. “Reality and Pictoriality: Hollywood Style from the 1970s to the 1980s.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pamela Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 205-218 Ryan, Simon. “Neoliberalism and the Fate of the Collective in Recent German Cinema.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pamela Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 118-133 Simmons, Rochelle. “The Suburb in Jane Campion’s Films.” In Jane Campion: Cinema, Nation, Identity, ed. Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox and Irène Bessière. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2009. 175-186 Voci, Paola. “Quasi-Documentary, Cellfix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual Pleasures,” Senses of Cinema 41 (October-December 2006).http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/06/41/other-chinese-movies-pleasures.html Select Publications and Projects by Network Members and AffliatesIn addition to participating in network research initiatives, network members also have individual research projects. Recent and forthcoming significant publications resulting from individual projects that contribute to the research mandate of the network include: Cooper, Annabel. “The Pakeha Wars: A Genealogy of Memory and Identity 1900-2008,” research project. Fowler, Catherine and Gillian Helfield, eds. Representing the Rural: Space, Place and Identity in Films About the Land. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2006. Fowler, Catherine. Sally Potter. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Fox, Alistair, and Hilary Radner, trans. of Raphaelle Moine, Cinema Genre. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008. Fox, Alistair. Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press, 2011, forthcoming. Novero, Cecilia. Antidiets of the Avant-garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. Radner, Hilary. Neo-Feminist Cinema: Chick Flicks, Girly Films and Consumer Culture. New York: Routledge, 2011, forthcoming. Radner, Hilary, and Raphaëlle Moine, eds. Blackwell Companion to Contemporary French Cinema. Malden, MA: Blackwell, project under contract. Radner, Hilary, and Erica Todd. Romantic Drama in New Approaches to Film Genre, ed. Barry Keith Grant. Malden, MA: Blackwell, project solicited. Voci, Paola. China on Video: Smaller-Screen Realities. London: Routledge, 2010. International CollaborationsFondation La Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, FranceParticipation in two research networks:
Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La DéfenseTwo PhD candidates, supervised under a cotutelle agreement:
Université de Paris 3, La Sorbonne nouvellePublication project, The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary French Cinema, with Michel Marie, and Raphaëlle Moine Select international contributors to network projects and publications
Recent Postgraduate Activities 2006-2010PublicationsFossen, Pamela and Hilary Radner, eds. Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. Fossen, Pamela. “Getting the Story Crooked.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pamela Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 163-170. Fossen, Pamela. “The Fog of Documentary: Errol Morris and Mutating Expectations.” In Proceedings of the 2006 Film and History League Conference “The Documentary Tradition,” ed. Peter C. Rollins, John E O’Connor and James R. Knecht. Oshkosh, Wisconsin: Film & History League, 2007. C-D Rom. ISBN: 0-9746905-4-6 Higgins, Teri. “Let’s Ask for the Moon! - Tracing the ‘Narrative of Desperation’ Across Films for Women.” UC Los Angeles: UCLA Center of the Study of Women. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1xz2k9m6 Polaschek, Bronwyn. “The Life of Lady Lazarus? An Analysis of the film Sylvia as Historical Document.” In Remapping Cinema, Remaking History: Proceedings of the XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dunedin: Volume Two: Selected Refereed Papers, ed. Hilary Radner and Pamela Fossen. Dunedin: Centre for National Identity, University of Otago, 2009. 182-190. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “Film Scholarship and the Artist Biopic Frida: From Suffering Martyr to the Death of the Artist.” In Generic Attractions: New Essays on Film Genre Criticism, ed. Celestino Deleyto and María del Mar Azcona. Paris: Michel Houdiard, 2010. 398-410. Pullar, Ellen. “Jane Campion: Biography.” Jane Campion: Cinema Nation Identity: Research Colloquium. Dunedin: University of Otago. Retrieved from: http://www.otago.ac.nz/communicationstudies/campion/biography Pullar, Ellen. “‘A New Woman’: The Promotional Persona of Anna Sten.” Celebrity Studies, forthcoming November 2010. Awards
Theses completedAronsen, Rebecca. “Televising Transformation: A Close Analysis of Extreme Makeover and The Swan.” Master’s thesis, University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2007. (Supervisors: Hilary Radner and Annabel Cooper) Fossen, Pamela. “Errol Morris and the Art of History.” PhD diss., University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2009. (Supervisors: Hilary Radner and Barbara Brookes) Higgins, Teri. “Narratives of Desperation: Genre, Gender, and Desperate Housewives.” Master’s thesis, University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2008. (Supervisor: Cathy Fowler) Hine, Gabrielle. “Jailbait, Eye Candy and Loli-pops: Adolescent Subjectivity, Femininity and Sexuality in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Thirteen (2003) and American Beauty (1996).” Master’s thesis, University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2007. (Supervisors: Hilary Radner and Rebecca Stringer) Kastl, Matthias. "Reconsidering National Cinema in the Age of Globalisation: A Case Study of Contemporary Mexican Cinema." Master's thesis, University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2007. (Supervisors: Paul Ramaeker and Hilary Radner) Pullar, Ellen. “Anna Sten, Forgotten Star.” Master’s thesis, University of Otago. Dunedin, New Zealand, 2007. (Supervisors: Hilary Radner and Annabel Cooper) Conference PresentationsDa Gama, Clément. « Remake, intertextualité et féminisme : l’exemple de Les Femmes de Stepford et de Et l’Homme créa la femme. » 6e Congrès de l’AFECCAV. Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3. Jeudi 23, vendredi 24, samedi 25 septembre 2010. (accepted) Fossen, Pamela. “Getting the Story Crooked: Errol Morris and Narrativist Historiography.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand, 27-39 November 2008. Fossen, Pamela. “A ‘Laboratory of Language’: Documentary Sound Conventions and Errol Morris’ The Fog of War.” Screen Studies. Glasgow, 4-6 July 2008. Fossen, Pamela. “The Fog of Documentary: Errol Morris and Mutating Expectations.” The Documentary Tradition , Film & History League. Dallas, Texas, 8-12 November 2006. Higgins, Teri. “‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours’: The Love Letter in Contemporary Romance Narrative.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Australia, 29 November-3 December 2010. (accepted) Higgins, Teri. “Let’s Ask for the Moon! - Tracing the ‘Narrative of Desperation’ Across Films for Women.” Thinking Gender: Nineteenth Annual Graduate Research Conference. UCLA Center of the Study of Women, UC Los Angeles, 6 February 2009. Hine, Gabrielle. “Resisting the “Life-script” of the Young Single Female: The Pregnant Adolescent in New Zealand On-Screen Narratives.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Australia, 29 November-3 December 2010. (accepted) Hine, Gabrielle. “Lo-Lee-Ta: The Historical Legacy of Kubrick’s Nymphet.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand . Dunedin, New Zealand, 27-30 November 2008. Hine, Gabrielle. “Understanding Gendered Identity and Sexuality through Cinema: The Case of Thirteen (2003).” Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand, 26-8 November 2008. Murphy, Jo. “Re-Presenting the Boogeyman: Halloween and the Postmodern Slasher Remake.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Australia, 29 November-3 December 2010. (accepted) Polaschek, Bronwyn. “The Life of Lady Lazarus? An Analysis of the film Sylvia as Historical Document.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. University of Otago, 27-30 November 2008. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “Post-Feminism and the Ambivalence of The Hours.” Sociology Association of Aotearoa New Zealand. University of Otago, 26-8 November 2008. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “The Imaginary and the Real in Julie Taymor's Frida.” Genre, Ideology and Culture in the Cinema. Palacio de Congresos de Jaca, Spain, 20 September 2008. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “Constructing a Life: Coal Miner's Daughter as the Self-Narrative of Loretta Lynn.” Self-Narratives Research Day: Gender Studies Programme and the Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network. University of Otago, 10 December 2007. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “Artemisia and the Archive: The Biopic Film Genre as Melodramatic History.” New Historians Conference. Victoria University, 7 October 2007. Polaschek, Bronwyn. “Melodramatic Lives: Defining the Paradigmatic Biopic and its Cultural Work.” Media, Film and Communication Departmental Genre Symposium. Dunedin Art Gallery, 27 August 2007. Pullar, Ellen. “ ‘The Girl of Tomorrow Who Has Arrived Today’: Jean Harlow’s Promotional Persona.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Sydney, Australia, 29 November-3 December 2010. (accepted) Pullar, Ellen. “‘A Star Who Is Not Like the Others’: Arletty’s Publicity Persona During the 1930s.” Auteurs, Genres, Stars: French Specificities. Institut National pour l’Historie d’Art, Paris, 26-7 March, 2010. Pullar, Ellen. “Arletty as Modern Woman in Un chien qui rapporte.” Vox Populi: Cinema and Identity, Research Colloquium: Cultures, Histories and Identitifies Research Network. University of Otago, 1 August 2009, Dunedin. Pullar, Ellen. “Anna Sten: Forgotten Star.” Self-Narratives Research Day: Gender Studies Programme and the Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network. University of Otago, 10 December 2007. Pullar, Ellen. “Goldwyn’s Folly: the Miscasting of Anna Sten in Nana.” Eminent Europeans. King’s College, London, 17-18 May 2007. Pullar, Ellen and Hilary Radner (co-author). “‘Endangered species turned dangerous’ Memory, ‘Race’ and Desire in Rena Owen’s Star Texts.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne, 16-19 November 2006. Todd, Erica. “Titanic (1997) and the Modern Romantic Heroine.” Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, Sydney, Australia, 29 November-3 December 2010. (accepted) Todd, Erica. “Gender, Image, and Identity in the Transformation Film: Re-Assessing the Response to Pretty Woman (1990).” Vox Populi: Cinema and Identity, Research Colloquium: Cultures, Histories and Identities Research Network. University of Otago, 1 August 2009, Dunedin. Todd, Erica. “Revisiting Pretty Woman (1990): Gender, Sexuality and Popular Cinema.” Sociology Association of Aotearoa New Zealand , University of Otago, 26-8 November 2008. Forthcoming EventsCreative Imitations and Appropriations: From Cinematic Adaptations to Re-Makes: Research Colloquium18-19 February 2011 Sponsored by the Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media and Literature Research Network and the Centre for Research on National Identity, University of Otago The topic of adaptation has gained renewed attention and relevance in the last ten years especially due to the constantly changing landscape of film and media technology. The recent shift from analogue to digital technology has spurred much heated controversies about the nature of cinema, and the relations between textual and visual narratives, while promoting re-conceptualizations of media specificity as far as both practices of production and consumption (forms and experiences of viewing) are concerned. The relevance of such debates internationally is evinced first in the conspicuous publication of key volumes devoted to such paradigm shifts (e.g., REVINVENTING FILM STUDIES, 2000; Kamilla Elliott’s RETHINIKNG THE NOVEL/FILM DEBATE, 2003; Linda Hutcheon’s THEORY OF ADAPTATION, 2006). Secondly multifarious approaches to adaptation - including within this rubric novel concepts of translation as well as remakes - have been a recurrent subject of investigation at several main conferences (Modern Language Association, USA; German Studies Association, USA; American Comparative Language Association; Popular and American Culture Association, USA etc.). Finally and most important, journal issues as well as entire refereed journals have sprung around the re-invented field of adaptation studies (i.e., GEGENWARTSLITERATURE, vol 7 (2008); and the new journal, ADAPTATION, edited by Deborah Cartmell, Timothy Corrigan and Imelda Whelehan, and published by Oxford University Press). Featured Speakers included:
CONVENORS: CECILIA NOVERO, HILARY RADNER; CO-CONVENORS: ELLEN PULLAR, ERICA TODD ................................................................................................................................................ The Modern Girl – from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First CenturyPostgraduate Research ColloquiumSponsored by the Film, Media and Literature Postgraduate Executive, the Department of Media, Film and Communication, and the Cultures, Histories and Identities in Film, Media, and Literature Research Network, University of Otago Friday 19 November 2010 Call for PapersThe Modern Girl of the 20th century is frequently presented as both an emblem of urban modernity as well as its target – that is to say a demographic particularly susceptible to the invitation to consume within the context of a cosmopolitan urban lifestyle. The Modern Girl Around the World Research Group concluded in The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization (2008) that a particular model of femininity emerged within a global context between the 1920s and 1930s that was associated with consumer culture and a new set of sexual mores in which the erotic and romantic were intimately intertwined and in which “girlishness” rather than “womanliness” defined the ideal. In the twenty-first century, market researchers have identified the YSF (young single female) as a significant demographic crucial to the consumer non-durable sector associated with the term “the New Girl Order” and what is known as “the Bridget Jones economy.” The Economist explained in December 2001: “They are the main consumers and producers of the creative economy that revolves around advertising, publishing, entertainment and media. More than any other social group, they have time, money and passion for spending on whatever is fashionable, frivolous and fun.” We welcome proposals on topics relating to the nature of modern femininity broadly defined, as well as those that specifically address the development of the Modern Girl and her avatars, the Single Girl, and the SYF. We are seeking papers that span the breadth of her cultural history, beginning in the 1920s extending into the twenty-first century. We invite scholars at all stages to submit proposals, but we are especially interested in proposals from postgraduates, including BA Honours and PG Dip candidates, that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the topic and that are suitable to a twenty-minute presentation. Keynote Speaker: Dr Juliette Peers, RMIT University, Melbourne (to be confirmed) Venue: University of Otago, (TBA) If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at fmlpgexec@gmail.com Previous EventsVox Populi: Cinema and IdentityResearch Colloquium
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