Special Editions
Physical copies of the books are available free of charge. For more details, contact Jerry White (Jerry.White@Dal.ca), former Director of the Centre for European Studies.
Films ga猫lics a Catalunya
Scann谩in Ghaelacha sa Chatal贸in
In September 2014, the Filmoteca de Catalunya, in collaboration with the Irish Film Institute, staged a week-long retrospective of important films in Irish Gaelic, films that were subtitled in Catalan especially for the programme. The Centre for European Studies, collaborating with the Department of Irish at University College Dublin, produced a bi-lingual catalogue raisonn茅 that explained the significance of each of the films in the programme. .
Global / Local Film: Working Papers from the 2014
AV俱乐部 鈥� Sorbonne Nouvelle Summer Institute in Film Studies
Le cin茅ma entre le global et le local: Papiers de travail de
l鈥橧nstitute d鈥櫭﹖茅 2014 d鈥櫭﹖udes cin茅matographiques
AV俱乐部 鈥� Sorbonne Nouvelle
In July 2014, AV俱乐部 hosted a Summer Institute in Film Studies, devoted to the topic 鈥淕lobal/Local Film.鈥� It was a collaboration between AV俱乐部 and Universit茅 de Paris鈥嬏�3 鈥� Sorbonne nouvelle, with whom AV俱乐部 had signed a memorandum of understanding in 2012. What is between these pages is not a 鈥減roceedings鈥� in the manner of a document that records everything that happened over the course of an event. Rather, we are thinking of these as 鈥渨orking papers,鈥� as contributions to scholarship that we hope will lead to new kinds of connections being forged between students of cinema in Canada and France.
En juillet 2014, l鈥橴niversit茅 AV俱乐部 a accueilli l鈥橧nstitut d鈥櫭﹖茅 d鈥櫭﹖udes cin茅matographiques, sous le th猫me 芦 le cin茅ma entre le local et le mondial - Local /global film 禄.听 Cet 茅v猫nement s鈥檌nscrivait dans le cadre d鈥檜ne collaboration entre l鈥橴niversit茅 AV俱乐部 et l鈥橴niversit茅 Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3; la premi猫re ayant conclu avec la seconde un protocole d鈥檈ntente en 2012.听 Les contenus des pages que nous proposons ici ne sauraient 锚tre per莽us comme des 芦 actes de colloque 禄, 脿 l鈥檌nstar d鈥檜n document qui rassemble toutes les communications pr茅sent茅es au cours d鈥檜n 茅v茅nement de ce genre. En r茅alit茅, nous consid茅rons ces articles comme des 芦 documents de travail 禄, une contribution 脿 l鈥檃vancement des connaissances qui, nous l鈥檈sp茅rons, d茅boucheront sur l鈥櫭﹖ablissement de nouvelles formes de liens et de collaboration entre les chercheurs au Canada et en France.
The mountains, the oceans, and the metropolis:
Notes on John Akomfrah鈥檚 The Nine Muses
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[ introduces and contextualizes Akomfrah鈥檚 film. The book contains three essays by Halifax-based film teachers. One by Jennifer VanderBurgh that explores Akomfrah鈥檚 relationship to archive and canon, one by that discusses the film in relation to the documentary form and one by that situates the film in terms of the concerns of the Black Audio Film Collective Included also in the book is a reprinted text by , originally written for the British film magazine , about Akomfrah鈥檚 Mnemosyne, a three-screen video installation from which took its form.
A Film AV俱乐部 the Sea:
Notes on Allan Sekula and No毛l Burch鈥檚 The Forgotten Space
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, offers a comprehensive reading of the complexities of The Forgotten Space as well as several entry points into the film. The book includes a text that Sekula and Burch published together in the British political magazine as well as a reprint of film critic 鈥檚 article on the film. Additionally, there are three essays by Jennifer VanderBurgh, and that respectively treat the essayistic, political and theoretical aspects of .
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