From:
"S.A.Wilkinson" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: Exploiting Fear: The Art and Appeal of Horror on Film
Given below is a provisional timetable for this conference which is
set to take place at the Univesity of Hull, England from 11 - 13
October 2002.
There may be the opportunity for more panels and so late submissions
are still being accepted.
If you wish to register for the conference please got to our web page
where you will find links to the Call for Papers, up-to-date Programme
information and links to the Iniversity / local accommodation.
Many thanks for taking the time to read this and I look forward to
hearing from you in the near future
Best regards
Simon Wilkinson
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S.A.Wilkinson
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
Friday 11
14:30-17:00 Registration
18:00-19:00:
Opening Lecture by Guest Speaker:
Mark Jancovich
"They mostly come at night ... mostly":
Time, Space and the
Congregation of Horror Fandom
19:00-23:00:
Conference Dinner
Saturday 12
9:00-10:30:
Panel: Horror Cycles
Paper 1:The Nightmare Continues -
The Persecuted Yuppie Cycle
Paper 2:Hammer, Cronenberg, and the
Notion of Cycles
Paper 3: Scrolls of Life: Universal's
Mummy Films
10.30-10.45: Refreshments
10:45-12:15:
Panel: Interpreting Auteurs
Paper 1: The Cinematic Art of Jacques
Tourneur
Paper 2: Another One For the Fire:
George A. Romero's American
Theology of the Flesh
Paper 3:The Evocation of Holocaust
Imagery in Hitchcock's Psycho
12:45-13:45: Buffet Lunch
13:45-15:15:
Panel: Italian Masters
Paper 1: Mario Bava's La Frustra E Il
Corpo (The Whip and the Body)
Paper 2: Visceral Desire: The Fear of
the Flesh
Paper 3: The Giallo; Italian Cinema Par
Excellance
15:15-15:30: Refreshments
15:30-16:30:
Panel: Horrific Ancestry and
Homage
Paper 1: The Friday the 13th Films and
the cultural function of a modern Grand
Guignol
Paper 2: Sleepy Hollow and the
Hammer Horror Tradition
Paper 3: Italian Horror and Edgar
Allen Poe
17:00 - 18:00
Keynote Speaker:
Richard Dyer
Killing for the Family:
the Italian horror film.
19:30: Screening:
Spider
21:30: Screening:
Midnight: Screening:
The Last House on the Left
Sunday 13
9:00-10:00:
Panel: British Traditions
Paper 1: Including the Excluded: The
Views of Genre Fans on the
Regulatory Censorship of Film
Violence in Britain
Paper 2: The Decaying Victor: Fifties
Britain and The Quatermass
Experiment
10:00-11:00:
Panel: Technology and Terror
Paper 1: Spectral Vampires: Modern
Technology and the Vampire Myth in
Cinema
Paper 2: Modern Cinema and the
evolution of the Cybergothic
11:00-11:15: Refreshments
11:15-12:45
Panel: Audience and Reception
Paper 1: A Particular Fondness: A
Model of the Female Horror Film
Audience
Paper 2: Consuming Horror's Special
Effects: Audience Effects and Doubled
Attention
Paper 3: Horror as Pleasure and as
Role Play
12:45-13:45: Buffet Lunch
13:45-15:15:
Panel: International Horrors
Paper 1: This Doesn't Look Like a
Spanish Film: La Residencia (1969)
Paper 2: Roman Polanski's 'La
Loctaire': Urban Alienation as Tale of
Terror
Paper 3: Desire Through the Looking
Glass Mike Takashi's Audition as a
Mirror of Japanese Patriarchal Images
of Women
15:15-15:30: Refreshments
15:30-16:30: Closing Lecture:
Neil Sinyard
N.B.
All information is provisional and subject to change.
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