The Centre for Film Studies (SOAS) 3rd Postgraduate Symposium: 'Global Cinemas Speak Back'

Keynote Speaker:

Dr Julian Stringer (University of Nottingham): Understanding the Global Competitiveness of Korean Film Sound

This illustrated presentation analyses the "shadow" history of the East Asian digital audio post-production sector's global competiveness by providing a critical account of the work of Live Tone, the most important sound studio in South Korea. Focusing in particular on its ongoing collaboration with celebrated director Bong Joon-ho ( Memories of Murder , The Host , Snowpiercer , Okja), it draws upon the emerging and vital methodologies of production studies and sound studies.

Panel: Female Representation in Film

Chair: DR BEN MURTAGH

Lois Barnett: From Marlene Dietrich to Tanaka Kinuyo: Masculine Fashion and the Female Japanese Star in Ozu Yasujirō's Dragnet Girl ( Hijōsen no Onna , 1933)

Jiratorn Sakulwattana: Visual Representation of Women in the Studio-based Films and the Habitus of Film Viewership in Contemporary Thailand

Todun Joseph: Female Representation by Female Filmmakers in Nollywood Films

Panel: Transnational Networks of Film Finance and Co-Productions

Chair: DR LINDIWE DOVEY

Robin Steedman: Negotiating Transnational Circuits of Screen Media: Nairobi-based Female Filmmakers and World Cinema

Isaya Sinpongsporn: How to Remake As Thai: The Key Factors of Korean-to-Thai Television Drama Adaptation

Elaine Chung: A Korean Cinema in Mainland China: From Co-productions to Remakes

Panel: Commercially Successful Films in Academic Obscurity

Chair: DR MARCOS CENTENO

Michael W. Thomas: Melodrama and the Commercial Film Industry in Ethiopia

Tom Cunliffe: Mandarin Vs Cantonese in 1970s Hong Kong Cinema: Auditory Ruptures in Kuei Chih-hung’s Early Shaw Brothers Films