Friday 11th November, 2011

2011 | Secrets of the Orient

4.00pm:
Welcome
Becky Conekin (European Studies Council, Yale University)

4:15pm:
Selling Orientalism in the Global Film Market: House of Flying Daggers, Costume and Blockbuster Aesthetics
Ron Gregg (Film Studies, Yale University)

5:00pm:
Entertainment Goes Oriental-mental: costuming late-19th and early-20th century Stage Magic, Theatre and Early Cinema
Marketa Uhlirova (Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts London)

8:00pm :
Screening of Michelangelo Antonioni shorts followed by Latcho Drom (dir Tony Gatlif, 1993)
Special thanks to KG Productions and the Embassy of France