[JFKI-News] Remake Studies: New Methods and Approaches

["Department of Culture, JFKI" <culture@jfki.fu-berlin.de>]

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to attend the workshop “Remake Studies: New Methods and Approaches” this Thursday (October 25). The workshop brings together scholars and practitioners to examine remaking – one of cinema’s most longstanding practices. The objective is to discuss and probe new methods and approaches for remake studies, inlcuding quantitative methods, audience research, industry studies, and videographic criticism.

 

Room 340, 9:00-18:30

Contact: Kathleen.Loock@fu-berlin.de

 

Workshop Program

9:00–9:15             Welcome

9:15–10:45          Session 1: Quantitative Methods

                                Vitaly Belik (FU Berlin) / Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin), “Graphs, Stats, and Networks: Remake Studies in the Age of Digital Humanities”

                                Stefanie Mathilde Frank (HU Berlin), “Dealing with Definitions: The Challenges of Building an International Remake Database”

10:45–11:15        Coffee Break

11:15–12:45        Session 2: Audience Research

                                Eduard Cuelenaere (U of Ghent), “Why Audiences Matter: Exploring the Possibilities of Audience Research in the Field of Remake Studies”

                                Kathleen Loock (FU Berlin), “Hollywood Memories/Movie Generations: Remake Studies and Global Reception Practices”

12:45–14:15        Lunch

14:15–15:45        Session 3: Industry Studies

                                Miguel Fernández Labayen (U Carlos III de Madrid) / Ana Martín Morán (U Rey Juan Carlos), “Remaking Film Industry Studies: Methodological and Theoretical Challenges of an Expanding Field"

                                Meg Thomson (Globalgate Entertainment), “Retelling and Reselling:  The Industry Context of Remaking Films”

15:45–16:15        Coffee Break

16:15–17:45        Session 4: Videographic Criticism

                                Catherine Grant (Birkbeck, U of London), “Simultaneity as Device: The Multiple Screen Video Essay and Comparative Remake Studies”

Kevin B. Lee (Merz Akademie Stuttgart), "Desktop Remakes, Critical Simulations"

17:45–18:00        Break

18:00–18:30        Concluding Discussion

19:00                     Dinner

 

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Dr. Kathleen Loock

Dahlem Postdoc Fellow

 

Freie Universität Berlin

John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies | Department of Culture

Lansstr. 7-9 | 14195 Berlin | Germany

 

My most recent publications:

American TV Series Revivals – a special issue of Television & New Media 19.4 (May 2018)

Exploring Film Seriality – a special issue of Film Studies 17 (Autumn 2017)

 

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