Conference on Film

[J.M. Andrew]

The following announcement may well be of interest to members:


REMINDER...REMINDER...REMINDER

FILM CONFERENCE AT KEELE UNIVERSITY: ENTERTAINING IDEOLOGIES

The following conference may be of interest to subscribers to the list. For
 details or to be
and booking form e-mail Alison Smith (could you please include a postal
 address!)

Alison Smith
mla22 at cc.keele.ac.uk

Keele Department of Modern Languages presents

          ENTERTAINING IDEOLOGIES

          A CENTURY OF EUROPEAN CINEMA

 A Day Conference to be held on Saturday April 19 1997 at Keele University

 For a hundred years Europeans have been perceiving the world, defining
 themselves, telling stories through the medium of the cinema screen. Cinema
 has been many things to many people, but this conference emphasises two
 primary functions of film - the communication of ideologies, both dominant
 and oppositional, and the provision of entertainment - and explores the
 sometimes fraught relationship between them.

 including: Richard Dyer on Nino Rota and Italian cinema; Richard Taylor on the
 Kokhoz
musical in Soviet cinema; Rosemary Stott on film of the Honecker period in  the
 GDR;
Steve Cannon and Eliane Meyer on Godard; Julia Dobson on Hollywood remakes of
French films, Carrie Tarr on postcolonialist film; Wendy Everett on myth, music
 and
memory in European cinema.


 The conference will be held in the Conference Hotel, Keele

 For more information and booking form contact Alison Smith on
 mla22 at cc.keele.ac.uk, or write to Dr Alison Smith or Prof Diana Holmes in
 Dept. of Modern Languages (French), Keele University, Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG