*Re-generating Genre*
A one-day Symposium hosted by Film Studies at the University of Kent, in
association with Film Studies: An International Review.
Monday 19th June 2000
Grimond Lecture Theatre 3
The concept of genre, once a way of dismissing popular cinema, became with
the rise of Film Studies a central mode of analysis of Hollywood film. The
certainty of generic categories has been recently challenged, however, not
only in the films of post-classical Hollywood but also by new scholarship
on classical Hollywood itself. At the same time writers have begun to
examine other cinemas in terms of genre and the meanings that can be
generated by genre, showing both the influence of American cinema and the
deviations and transformations produced by other national cinemas. Steve
Neale, whose book *Genre and Hollywood* was published in 1999, will give a
keynote presentation on the blockbuster in Hollywood. Catherine Grant will
talk about melodrama in Mexican cinema, and Peter Stanfield, whose study of
Hollywood and the 1930s Western is forthcoming from Exeter University
Press, will talk about neo-noir. The day will conclude with a roundtable
discussion with contributions by Linda Ruth Williams, Nick Burton, Allison
Tedman, and Mike Hammond.
11.00 am Introduction
11.10 am Peter Stanfield (Southampton Institute)
Film Noir Like You've Never Seen - Jim Thompson and Neo-Noir; or, The
French Got There First
12.00am Catherine Grant (University of Kent)
Music and Performance in 'Old' and 'New' Mexican Melodramas
1-2.15 lunch
2.15 pm Steve Neale (Sheffield Hallam)
What is a blockbuster?
3.15-3.30pm Tea
3.30-4.30 Roundtable discussion initiated by Linda Ruth Williams
(University of Southampton), Nick Burton (Christ Church College), Mike
Hammond (University of Southampton), Allison Tedman (Buckinghamshire
Chilterns University).
Organised by UKC Film Studies in association with the Kent Institute for
Advanced Studies in the Humanities.
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