[Webinaire] FLUXUS – The Representation of Borders in Industrial Films on the Saarland’s Heavy Industry (1931-2019)

Industrial films are a valuable resource for research in the field of cultural studies as they are both mediator and part of industrial culture. In the Saarland, as well as in the Greater Region as a whole, many industrial films were created throughout the last century. The industries treated include but are not limited to glass and porcelain manufacturing, brewing and viticulture as well as the iron, steel and coal industry. Looking at borders, this talk will focus on the heavy industries, in which geographical border crossings are rendered obligatory by ore and coal basins extending over national borders. However, geographical borders are only one of many types of borders which play an important role in the context of the heavy industry and are represented in respective industrial films. This variety of different borders shall be illustrated by examples taken from industrial films produced between the 1930s and the 2010s.

 

Isis Luxenburger is a doctoral researcher in the International Research Training Group “Diversity. Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces” at Saarland University, the University of Trier and the University of Montreal. Her research interests include the cultural studies of (industrial) films and, in general, investigating research subjects rooted in other disciplines—especially Film Studies, Game Studies and Translation Studies—from a Cultural Studies perspective. She is currently working on her interdisciplinary dissertation project on the mediation of industrial culture in films on the heavy industry in the Canadian province of Quebec and the Greater Region Saar-Lor-Lux.

 

The conference will be moderated by Dr. Massimiliano Livi1 and introduced by Prof. Dr. Christoph Brüll.

 

To receive the link to the conference, please register at lorine.hosch@ext.uni.lu.

 

The FLUXUS project is supported by the Greater Region.