Cinema at the Periphery: world cinema studies articles and videos

Sequence from Morvern Callar (Lynne Ramsay, featuring Samantha Morton as Morvern and the psychedelic song 'Some Velvet Morning' written by Lee Hazlewood in 1967 and performed by Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra (for more on Ramsay's great film, see Scott Tobias, 'The New Cult Canon: Morvern Callar', The A.V. Club, February 27, 2008; as well as John Caughie, 'The Angel's Share: Morvern Callar and the Difficulty of Art Cinema', video also linked to below)

With Spring (and a spring) in its step, Film Studies For Free brings you a whole, golden, host of articles as well as little video tasters to the work of some of the world's leading film scholars on the topic of international (and/or 'interstitial', or 'transnational', or 'peripheral') cinema.

The videos are recordings of presentations from the Cinema at the Periphery conference held at the University of St Andrews between June 15th and June 17th 2006. While those external to that university can only see the first ten minutes of each presentation, they're still very informative, and showcase, in miniature at least, some brilliant film studies research.

They've been newly publicised on the occasion of the publication of the conference book Cinema at the Periphery by Wayne State University Press, part of its series on Contemporary Approaches to Film and Television, under the general editorship of Barry Keith Grant. The book is edited by Dina Iordanova, David Martin-Jones, and Belén Vidal.

As FSFF always endeavours to add value to the free resources it links to, it decided also to assemble an accompanying list of related, high quality, freely accessible, online articles:

• Kim Byeongcheol, 'Production and Consumption of Contemporary Korean Cinema', Korea Journal, Spring 2006
• Hamilton Carroll, 'Resisting the Nation: John Sayles' Men with Guns (Hombres Armados) as Postnational Cinema', Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence, May 10-12, 2002, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
• Ruby Cheung and D. H. Fleming, 'Introduction: Cinema and Identities', Cinemas, Identities and Beyond, edited by Ruby Cheung with D. H. Fleming (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009) 
• E. Anna Claydon, ‘Nostalgia in the Post-National: Contemporary British Cinema and the South-Asian Diaspora’, South Asian Cultural Studies,Vol.2 No.1, 2008, pp 26 - 38  
• Pam Cook, 'Transnational Utopias: Baz Lurhmann and Australian Cinema', Transnational Cinema, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010 
• Austin Fisher, 'A Marxist's Gotta Do What a Marxist's Gotta Do: Political Violence on the Italian Frontier', Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation, edited by Iain Robert Smith,  Scope, Issue 15, 2010
• Stuart Hall, 'Cultural Identity and Diaspora', Framework (no.36), 1989 
• Will Higbee and Song Hwee Lim, 'Concepts of transnational cinema: towards a critical transnationalism in film studies', Transnational Cinema, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010 
• Andrew Higson, 'Transnational Developments in European Cinema in the 1920s', Transnational Cinema, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010
• Teresa Hoefert de Turégano, 'Transnational Cinematic Flows: World Cinema as World Music?', Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence, May 10-12, 2002, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Jan Holmberg, 'Globalized Vision', Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence, May 10-12, 2002, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA  
• Paul Kerr, 'Babel's Network Narrative: Packaging a Globalized Art Cinema', Transnational Cinema, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2010
  
• 'Kinocultura: on Russian, Russo-Soviet, Eastern European, and Central Asian cinemas & television', Film Studies For Free, April 11, 2010 (for dozens of relevant article son Eastern and Central European/Asian cinemas)
• Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, 'Historical Introduction', Transnational Chinese Cinemas (University of Hawai‘i Press and copyrighted, 1997)
• Ewa Mazierska, 'Eastern European cinema: old and new approaches', Studies in Eastern European Cinema Volume 1 Number 1, 2010 
• Marcus Power, 'Post-colonial cinema and the reconfiguration of Moçambicanidade', Lusotoipie 2004: 261-278
• Phil Powrie, 'Heritage, History and the New Realism', French Cinema in the 1990s." French Cinema in the 1990s: Continuity and Difference. Ed. Phil Powrie. New York: Oxford, 1998
• Steven Schneider, 'World Horror Cinema and the US: Bringing it all back home', Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence, May 10-12, 2002, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Brigitte Schulze, 'Globalization and Divergence Dynamics of Dissensus in Non-Dominant Cinema Cultures of South India', Media in Transition 2: globalization and convergence, May 10-12, 2002, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Neelam Sidhar Wright, '"Tom Cruise? Tarantino? E.T.? ...Indian!": Innovation through Imitation in the Cross-cultural Bollywood Remake', Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation, edited by Iain Robert Smith,  Scope, Issue 15, 2010

The clips can be viewed using Quicktime player 7, VLC player or similar MP4 player. Just click on the pictures to access.
The clips are currently set to stream at a quality of medium (512Kbps) - they are also available to watch as low (56Kbps) or high (2Mbps). 

Dina Iordanova and Keith Brown

University of St Andrews

“Introduction and welcome”

(8min 16sec)

Mette Hjort

Lignan University, Hong Kong

“Homophilic Transnationalism: The 'Advance Party' Initiative”

Rod Stoneman

Huston School of Film & Digital Media, Galway, Ireland

“Dimpsey at the Edge”

Duncan Petrie

University of Auckland, New Zealand

“Small National Cinemas in an Era of Globalisation”

Sheldon Lu

University of California at Davis, USA

“Emerging from Underground and the Periphery: Independent Cinema in Contemporary China”

Lucia Nagib

Leeds University, UK

“Japanese Cinema and Local Modernity”

Laura U. Marks

Simon Fraser University, Canada

“Geopolitics Hides Something in the Image; Arab Cinema Unfolds Something Else”

Faye Ginsburg

New York University, USA

“Black Screens and Cultural Citizenship”

Dudley Andrew

Yale University, USA

“Turbulent Waves, Stagnant Seas: Awash in World Cinema”

Bill Marshall

University of Glasgow, UK

“Deleuze, Quebec and Cinemas of Minor Frenchness”

John Caughie

University of Glasgow, UK

“The Angel's Share: Morvern Callar and the Difficulty of Art Cinema”

Pam Cook

University of Southampton, UK

“Out from Down Under: Baz Luhrmann and Australian Cinema”

Patricia Pisters

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

“Filming Tanger: Migratory Identities in North Africa”

Hamid Naficy

Rice University, USA

“Interstitial, Transnational, and National-Iranian Silent Cinema”

Kristian Feigelson

Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

“A Visual Map of the Film World”