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Dr. Mark Leslie Woods recently received his Ph.D. in Film Studies from the Cardiff School of Creative & Cultural Industries, at the University of Glamorgan located in Cardiff, Wales (27 June 2007). He is currently completing a Postgraduate Teaching Certificate in Higher Education, also at the University of Glamorgan. For the past four years he has lectured part-time in Film & Media Studies in Pontypridd and Cardiff. He is an adult Welsh language learner since 2003, and previously completed language studies courses in Italian, French and Latin.
Dr. Woods previously earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Liberal Studies, with a Film Studies Certificate, from Florida International University in Miami, Florida. Dr. Woods also studied Film Production Technology at Miami-Dade College School of Entertainment Technologies. Prior to this he completed a 4-year program in Theatre, Radio & Television at the Malone College, Evangelical Friends (Quaker) in Canton, Ohio.
Dr. Woods formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Independent Feature Project/Miami. He has previously served as an Intern Marketing Assistant for the Miami International Film Festival, and he was formerly on the Board of Directors of the Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. He spent two summers co-leading undergraduate Karlovy Vary International Film Festival-related study abroad film courses in Miami and Prague, Czech Republic, under the auspices of Florida International University in Miami, Florida.
Recent film work includes Miami production crew for Ali (2000), directed by Michael Mann and starring Will Smith, I’m With Lucy (2001), starring Monica Potter. Dr. Woods has recently launched a U.K. production company to oversee development of an upcoming British feature film with a new script adapted from the novel ‘Everything Must Change’ written by Grahame Davies (Seren, 2007).
Dr. Woods has first visited the central Italian region of Molise in 1999, and has since commenced a comparative study of film and television representations of Italian "dialect" minority language cultures of Puglia-Molise-Abruzzo (Neapolitan Language Group). As an actor in re-enacted Italian Medieval Pageants, he was interviewed live on Italian Television for the first time during this past summer 2007. Originally from Youngstown, Ohio, he has lived in Miami Beach, Florida since 1983.
Abstract
AN EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL CINEMA OF WALES AND WHETHER THIS CINEMA CONSTRUCTS OR REPRESENTS A NATIONAL IDENTITY
The National cinema of Wales is a contested site of representation and identity, which has struggled to overcome systemic and historic obstacles to scholarship, as well as to funding, production, exhibition and distribution of its products, related organizations, agents and services. This paper will introduce several key distinctions of the aesthetic and industrial categories particular to the National cinema of Wales, based upon this recent dissertation identified above. Prominent points of the dissertation will be introduced and contextualized. The dissertation considered Welsh filmic product (produced from 1963-2007), produced by independent producers for prominent broadcasting entities, including Channel Four Films, BBC Wales, S4C, or HTV/ITV Wales; a review of relevant literature regarding Welsh national cinema by Berry, Blandford, Ffrancon and others; the historical context of the Welsh film industry, which was followed by an assignment of new aesthetic and industrial categories, including Welsh Coming-of-age genre films, Welsh Magical Realism, Welsh Grotesque cinema, the Welsh Chapel ‘Gothic’ in cinema, ‘Outsider’ filmmakers in Wales, and Welsh filmmakers in exile; the use of Welsh myths and legends in films, and how this contributes to a national identity. Consequently this dissertation located Welsh national cinema in a critical milieu inflected by literary, feminist, Queer, post-colonial and national cinema analysis approaches.
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