Resource:http://en.shisu.edu.cn/resources/events/lecture/global-film-cultures-identity-globalisation-communication
Speaker: James Chapman and Rabah Aissaoui (University of Leicester, U.K.)
Date: May 11, 2015 - Monday
Time: 14:40 - 15:55
Venue: R121, Bld5, Songjiang Campus
Language: English
Speaker Biography: Professor James Chapman is Head of Department of History of Art and Film at University of Leicester, the United Kingdom. He took his BA (History) and MA (Film Studies) at the University of East Anglia and then undertook his doctoral research at Lancaster University, writing his PhD thesis on the role of official film propaganda in Britain during the Second World War. He joined the University of Leicester as its founding Professor of Film Studies in January 2006. He is a Council member of the International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST) and in 2010 became editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. When Professor Chapman is not lecturing his students on why we should take James Bond seriously or decoding the semiotics of Diana Rigg, he can usually be found following Test Match Special.
Professor Chapman’s research focuses on British popular culture, especially cinema and television in their historical contexts. He is interested in the role of the media as propaganda, the representation of war and history, and the cultural politics of popular fictions – including, but not limited to, Dick Barton, Dan Dare, James Bond, The Avengers and Doctor Who. He has recently completed the first book to offer a cultural history of British comics from their origin to the present, and is currently researching books on Science Fiction Cinema and Contemporary British Television Drama. He is also co-investigator on a three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council project ‘Spaces of Television’ in association with the University of Reading and the University of Glamorgan.
Dr Rabah Aissaoui is Head of School of Law at University of Leicester, the United Kingdom. His research interests focus on immigration and racism in colonial and postcolonial France. He is particularly interested in the study of discourses on identity and exile, in the diasporic construction of nationalism and more specifically in expressions of ethnic, national and cultural belonging amongst Maghrebi migrants in France. He also researches French colonial history and the relationship between history, memory and ethnic identity among Maghrebis. Other areas of interest include Franco-Algerian relations, the historical development of Algeria. He conducted a joint research funded by the British Academy on the discursive constructions of difference and the representation of Turkey in the European Press with Professor Ralph Negrine (University of Sheffield), Dr Beybin Kejanlioglu (University of Ankara) and Professor Stylianos Papathanassopoulos (University of Athens).
He was a member of the Advisory Committee of a national exhibition project led by Génériques (Paris). This national exhibition entitled ‘Générations: un siècle d’histoire culturelle des Maghrébins en France’ was presented in Lyon, Paris (Cité Nationale de l’Histoire de l’Immigration), Caen and Toulon from 2009 to 2014.
