----------------------------Original message---------------------------- FYI to SCREEN-L: The British New Wave: Reconfiguring Modern British Cinema Saturday, April 8, 1995 The Yale Center for British Art presents a program of talks on the current state of filmmaking in Britain, highlighted by the screening of Ngozi Onwurah's new film. The symposium has been organized by Lester Friedman, Syracuse University, who will act as moderator. 10:30 am to 12:30 pm: "The End of National Cinema" Colin MacCabe, British Film Institute "The Sexuality of History in Contemporary British Cinema" Marcia Landy, University of Pittsburgh "Reality, the Real, and Margaret Thatcher in Three British Films of the 1980s" Michael Walsh, University of Hartford 2:30 to 4:30 pm: "Blue: Jarman and Monochrome" Peter Wollen, UCLA "Maureen Blackwood, Isaac Julien, and the Sankofa Collective" Wheeler Winston Dixon, University of Nebraska "Exploring Intersecting Identities: The Films of Ngozi Onwurah" Gloria Gibson-Hudson, Indiana University 8:00 to 10:00 pm: Independent filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah introduces her latest film, "Welcome II the Terrordome." Morning and afternoon sessions will take place in the Lecture Hall of the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven. The evening session will take place at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven. All sessions are free and open to the public with no registration required. For information, call (203) 432-2850. Julie Lavorgna Coordinator of Publications Yale Center for British Art 203-432-2851 _____________________________________ David Desser,UIUC Cinema Studies 2109 FLB/707 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801 217/244-2705