Dr Alex Marlow-Mann is a specialist in European cinema, with particular expertise in the cinema of Italy. He has published widely on regional cinemas, the politics of popular genre cinema, cognitive theory, film and emotion, and film preservation. His research interests include the distinctions and intersections between national/ transnational/ regional cinema and ‘popular’/ ‘art’ cinema, interests which are developed in The Routledge Companion to World Cinema, which he co-edited, and the associated Routledge series Remapping World Cinema: Regional Tensions and Global Transformations. He is currently completing a monograph on The Political Thriller in Its Global Context, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.
Keynote presentation : 14:30-15:30 (GMT)
Glocalising Film Scholarship in Contemporary Academia
The early 2000s witnessed a ‘transnational turn’ that partially displaced national cinema paradigms within academic film studies. More recently, the proliferation of publications and approaches within film studies has led some scholars in the opposite direction, to focus in detail on micro-histories of the local filmmaking realities around the globe. Drawing on his own experiences – researching the cinema of the city of Naples for his PhD, writing about regional cinema as an Early Career Researcher and, more recently, embarking on a book project with a transnational focus – Alex Marlow-Mann will reflect on the causes and implications of these shifting dynamics in contemporary film scholarship – as well as posing the question of how these might affect the next generation, currently completing their doctoral studies.
The early 2000s witnessed a ‘transnational turn’ that partially displaced national cinema paradigms within academic film studies. More recently, the proliferation of publications and approaches within film studies has led some scholars in the opposite direction, to focus in detail on micro-histories of the local filmmaking realities around the globe. Drawing on his own experiences – researching the cinema of the city of Naples for his PhD, writing about regional cinema as an Early Career Researcher and, more recently, embarking on a book project with a transnational focus – Alex Marlow-Mann will reflect on the causes and implications of these shifting dynamics in contemporary film scholarship – as well as posing the question of how these might affect the next generation, currently completing their doctoral studies.