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Title and Summary

Title

New Directions in Globalization and Film Industry History

Summary

This workshop seeks to stimulate extended and interactive discussion on doing film industry history and the relevance of this history to concepts and theories of globalization.  In the past 15 years, "globalization" has moved to the forefront of public consciousness and has often been used as a template to understand media and popular culture.  Early studies of film and globalization have skewed toward political economic and critical theory approaches, taking a pessimistic view of Hollywood as yet another iteration of Western cultural imperialism.  Scholarship emerging out of cultural studies often responds to blanket and deterministic critiques of globalization by emphasizing more nuanced aspects of this process as a recent development.  While many aspects of globalization indeed feel new, arguably the only recent feature of this condition is its accelerated momentum of forces that were already in motion at the beginning of the 20th century.  Scholarship in film industry history is uniquely poised to fill some gaps in debates surrounding media and globalization, since from the beginning of film as a medium, the global has been a central concern to those wanting to see, sell, or study the cinema.  In examining how the concept of globalization has informed their scholarship, workshop presenters will discuss how their work represents new directions in film history.  This cutting-edge research includes considering stardom and celebrity within the globalizing economics and rhetoric of Hollywood; examining the formation of Asian Studio Systems entirely outside the U.S.; and understanding the way in which alliances between media and other industries have transformed everyday lived experience.

Bibliography

Decherney, Peter. Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American. New York: Columbia UP, 2005.

Guback, Thomas.  The International Film Industry: Western Europe and America since 1945. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1969.

Higson, Andrew and Richard Maltby, eds.  "Film Europe and "Film America": Cinema, Commerce and Cultural Exchange 1920-1939. Exeter, Devon UK: U of Exeter P, 1999.

Miller, Toby, Nitin Govil, John McMurria, and Richard Maxwell. Global Hollywood. London: BFI, 2001.

Vasey, Ruth. The World According to Hollywood, 1918-1939. Madison WI: U of Wisconsin P, 1997.

Chair Info

Chair

Carr, Steven Alan / Indiana U - Purdue U Fort Wayne

Steven Alan Carr is Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor of Communication at Indiana University - Purdue University Fort Wayne, a 2002-03 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, and Co-Director of the IPFW Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He received an M.A. from Northwestern University in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994, both in Radio-Television-Film. Reviews of his first book, Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History up to World War II (Cambridge U P, 2001), have appeared in Commentary, The Forward,The London Review of Books, The New Republic, and The Washington Post. His present project, which explores the response of the American film industry to the growing public awareness of the Holocaust, received an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2002.   

Participants email all

Lee, Sangjoon / University of Michigan

Topic: Cold War, Nation-State, and the Transnational Asian Studio System in the 1960s

Sangjoon Lee is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Screen Arts and Cultures and the Nam Center for Korean Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Lee received a Ph.D. from New York University. He has taught academic courses on Hong Kong cinema, Korean cinema and popular culture, and Film Policy and Industry at NYU, The New School, and the Korea Society. Articles on the early years of the Asian Film Festival, Korean martial arts films and literatures in the 1960s, and contemporary Pan-Asian epic cinemas are forthcoming in various anthologies and journals, including Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema, Coming Soon to a Film Festival Near You, Korean Cine-Media and the Transnational, and East Asian Cultural Heritage and Cinemas. leesangj@umich.edu

Meeuf, Russell / University of Idaho

Topic:  Researching Global Hollywood in the 1950s

After receiving his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Oregon and serving as the Director of Film Studies at SUNY Brockport, Russell Meeuf now teaches at the University of Idaho.  Dr. Meeuf publishes on issues of globalization, stardom, and 1950s Hollywood.  His work has appeared in The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Cinema Journal, Third Text, and Jump Cut, and he is currently working on a book analyzing John Wayne as a global star in the 1950s.  rmeeuf@uidaho.edu

Sisto, Antonella / Smith College/UMass Amherst 

Topic: The sonic object of Italian Cinema

Antonella Sisto is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Five Colleges in the Italian Department at Smith College and UMass Amherst. Her research project “The sonic object of Italian cinema” traces a critical history of the coming of sound to Italian screens and investigates the national relation to the soundtrack from fascism to art cinema. Articles on dubbing, censorship, and cultural schizophonia have appeared in various journals. Her article “Dubbing for Fun, Dubbing for Real” will appear in the forthcoming volume New Italian Cultural Studies. asisto@smith.edu 

Wight, Sharon / Indiana U - Purdue U Fort Wayne

Topic: The Multiple Language Version and Early Sound Film

Wight is currently an M.A. candidate at Indiana U - Purdue U Fort Wayne.  She examines some of the different perspectives historians take in considering the multiple language version film and its importance. wighsl01@ipfw.edu