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Events

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  The Centre for Cinema Studies is pleased to announce the upcoming visit of Angela Piccini from the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television at the University of Bristol. 
  Jan.-Oct., 2009
  May 2008
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  Film Studies Association of Canada/Assocatiation Canadienne des Etudes Cinématographiques” annual conference at the Learned Societies Congress of Social Science and Humanities
  June 1-4, 2008
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  "The Past is a Difficult Country”: German Film Festival & Symposium at UBC in Vancouver (GFFSUV)
  October 15-16, 2007
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Centre for Cinema Studies - Research Projects

The Centre for Cinema Studies stimulates original and sound research into diverse areas of film and the wide dissemination of the results to the local and global community

Research Projects:

Contemporary Cinema Series
Edited by Ernest Mathijs and Steven Schneider
published by Editions Rodopi
www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?SerieId=COCI

Available titles include:

• Cubitt, Sean (2005), Ecomedia
• Aragay, Mireia (ed) (2005), Books in Motion: Adaptation, Intertextuality, Authorship
• Mathijs, Ernest and Murray Pomerance (eds) (2006), From Hobbits to Hollywood: Essays on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings
• McRoy, Jay (2007), Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema

Forthcoming titles include:

• Cardullo, Bert (2008), Asian and Eastern, or East Meets West: The Films of Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, Abbas Kiraostami, and Zhang Yimou; Essays and Interviews
• Johnston, Cristina (2008), French Minority Cinema

Canadian Cinema Abroad: the International Reception of David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises
Directed by Ernest Mathijs and Dax Sorrenti Undergraduate research project, funded by the Faculty of Arts, UBC

Irish Genres: Cinema and Society 1981-2006
Directed by Brian McIlroy
funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Irish Genres: Cinema and Society

Love’s Violence: Sadism, Masochism and Courtly Love in Contemporary European Cinema
Directed by Lisa Coulthard
funded by Hampton Research Fund

 

Publications:

Coulthard, Lisa (2007), 'Killing Bill: Rethinking Feminism and Film Violence', in Yvonne Tasker and Diane Negra (eds), Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 153-175.

Cultographies, a book series on individual cult films
Directed by Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton
Published by Wallflower Press
www.cultographies.com

Mathijs, Ernest and Xavier Mendik (eds) (2007), The Cult Film Reader, New York/London: McGraw-Hill/Open University Press

Wisenthal, Jonathan, Sherrill Grace, Melinda Boyd, Brian McIlroy, and Vera Micznik (eds) (2006), A Vision of the Orient: Texts, Intertexts, and Contexts of Madame Butterfly, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.