NECS 2011 Conference

The Redemption of Banality: an aesthetic depiction of ordinary teenage life. Audio-visual
dissonances in Gus Van Sant‟s Elephant and Paranoid Park.
Nicola Dusi (Modena)
Narrating by Sound Figures
Suzanne Barnard (Pittsburgh)
Rhythm in Pedro Costa‟s Colossal Youth
Sermin Ildırar & Mehmet Sarı (Istanbul)
Hypnotic Atmospheres in the Movies of Reha Erdem Created by the Drone-Like Use of
Sound
15.45 – 17.15 – PANELS J1-J6 (Birkbeck)
J1. THE LANGUAGES AND PRACTICES OF INTERNATIONAL FILM CULTURES
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Location: Birkbeck, room tba
Mar Diestro-Dópido (London)
Latin-American Filmmakers of the 1960s and 1970s and Film Festivals
Per Vesterlund (Gävle)
Dear Harry/Dear Paul – Selling the Concept of European Art Cinema in the 1960s
Mattias Frey (Cantenbury)
Postwar British Film Criticism‟s Reaction to Cahiers du cinéma: Sight and Sound and the
Establishment of Middlebrow Taste
Özge Özyılmaz (Istanbul)
Creating Citizens, Creating Audiences: Film Magazines in the Early Republican Period of
Turkey
J2. THE SOUNDS (AND SIGHTS) OF MUSIC
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Location: Birkbeck, room tba
Sarah Artt (Edinburgh)
The Future Sound of Retro: Daft Punk, Tron: Legacy and the Sound of Science Fiction
Anton Fuxjäger (Vienna)
Translation, Emphasis, Counterpoint – On the Function of Music in Visual Music
Chih-Ting Chen (Hong Kong)
The Extra-Territorial Space of Music in Wong Kar-Wai‟s In the Mood for Love
Luca Barra & Massimo Scaglioni (Milan)
Hits from the Box: Music Business and Italian Contemporary Television
J3. DOCUMENTARY PRACTICES
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Location: Birkbeck, room tba
Debra Beattie (Nathan, Australia)
Soundscape Studies and Documentary Practice
Terry Austrin and John Farnsworth (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Cursed Memories: Sound, Ethnographic Documentary and the Reconstitution of Cultural
Identity
Stefano Odorico (Cork)
Communicative Structures in Interactive Non-fiction Production
Ihab Saloul (Maastricht)
The “Anti-linear Sound-Image”: Exile Beyond Fiction and Documentary Divide
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