【人社中心國際學者系列講座】5/11Prof. Andy Birtwistle (Canterbury Christ Church University)主講

國立中興大學人文與社會科學研究中心

國際學者系列講座 

主講者(Speaker)： Prof. Andy Birtwistle (Principal Lecturer, Department of Media, Programme Director BA Film Radio & Television Studies, Canterbury Christ Church University)

【場次一】

講題(Topic)： Environmental sound in the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and Tsai Ming-liang

時間(Date & Time)： 2010/05/07(五)  上午10:10~12:00

地點(Venue)： 東海大學外文系館FL004

演講摘要(Abstract)：

This paper will consider the ways in which modernity and postmodernity are figured in the the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and Tsai Ming-liang through of the sounds of wind and rain as forms of environmental noise. Antonioni's work, while rightly celebrated as modernist, nevetheless offers a clear critique of modernity. Examining the psychological and emotional impact of modernity, Antonini's films focus on the alienation and isolation of the individual. The sound of wind is often used in his films to create a sense of disturbance, sonically problematsing the relationship between his protagonists and the world in which they live. While Tsai Ming-liang's films also focus on themes of alienation and isolation, the ever-present sound of rain offers an entirely different model of environmental noise, suggesting an altogether different relationship with the urban environment. The paper will consider these different figurations of environmental noise in relation to the historical and cultural contexts of modernity and postmodernity.

【場次二】

講題(Topic)： White Noise: the representation of modernity in the films of Pai Ching-jui

時間(Date & Time)： 2010/05/11(二)  上午9:30~10:30

地點(Venue)： 國立中興大學圖書館６Ｆ第二會議室(第三屆國際青年學者中文文學與藝術研討會)

演講摘要(Abstract)：

This paper is concerned with the representation of white Europeans and Americans, their tastes and cultural traditions, and the architectural and narrative spaces with which they are associated as key signifiers of modernity in two films by the Taiwanese director Pai Ching-jui. Both 'Lonely Seventeen'(1967) and 'Home Sweet Home' (1969) feature encounters between Taiwanese protagonists and Westerners that serve to problematise Taiwan's engagement with modernity and the West. Thus, in Pai's films, the international spaces of hotels, restaurants and airports, stage cultural encounters in which identities and modernities do not pass seamlessly between one culture and another, but rather become the scene of cultural disturbance: these are the locations in which communication fails, in which identities are threatened, and in which the utopian celebration of modernity is questioned.

主講者簡介(Speaker’s Bio-note):

Andy Birtwistle is the Director of the Film, Radio and Television Studies programme, and has particular responsibility for teaching video and film production and film and television theory. He has a first degree in Radio, Film and Television Studies, and an MA in Arts Criticism from City University, London. His PhD in Art History, from Goldsmiths College, University of London, explored the subject of film sound. Andy is also a filmmaker and sound artist whose film and video work has been screened on television and in galleries in the UK, and at a number of international festivals. More recently his research interest in sound has resulted in the production of audio compositions that have been broadcast and exhibited internationally. His work draws on ideas in contemporary critical theory, explored through creative production in sound and moving image. He has presented papers on various aspects of film sound at a number of national and international conferences, including Cybersonica at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Sounding Out II at the University of Nottingham. Andy has worked in media education since 1988, and has been an external examiner for Media programmes at Salford University, and the University of Surrey. He is currently external examiner for Film and Television Studies at Brunel University.

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