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Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:52:11 +0400
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From: [log in to unmask] (Caroline Beven)
Subject: screen studies conference
Dear colleague,
Screen Studies Conference
28-30 June 2002
Glasgow University, Scotland
This will be the 12th Screen Studies Conference, organised by the Screen
journal, which as usual will host a wealth of papers from international
delegates on a diverse range of screen studies topics.
Plenaries this year will be on Television History, with speakers including:
Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick)
John Caughie (University of Glasgow)
John Ellis (Bournemouth University)
Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Lynn Spigel (University of Southern California)
Below is the conference schedule (more details will be sent delegates
nearer the time) and a list of papers being presented.
Information on the conference is also available on our website:
www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk.
A REGISTRATION FORM is available on this site, with details of conference
fees and accommodation, which is in university halls of residence.
If you wish to attend the conference, please print off, complete and return
this form with relevant remittance to the address below as soon as
possible.
The website has links to maps and details of alternative accommodation.
Abstracts of the papers will also appear here in due course.
When completing the form please don't forget to tell us if you want to:
book b&b accommodation;
attend the Friday night dinner (numbers limited);
book lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
Finally, do let us know if you would like hard copy forms or further
information sent to you.
Best wishes,
Caroline Beven
Screen Studies Conference 28-30 June 2002
TIMETABLE OF EVENTS
Friday 28 June
2.30 onwards registration
3.00 - 5.00 postgraduate publication workshop
* Led by John Caughie
5.30 - 7.00 opening plenary: television history
* Charlotte Brunsdon
* John Caughie
* Lynn Spigel
7.00 - 8.30 reception
8.30 dinner at Stravaigin restaurant (if pre-booked)
Saturday 29 June
9.00 - 9.30 registration
9.30 - 11.00 panels
11.00 - 11.30 coffee/tea
11.30 - 1.00 panels
1.00 - 2.00 lunch break
2.00 - 3.30 panels
3.30 - 4.00 coffee/tea
4.00 - 5.30 panels
6.30 - 8.00 civic reception
Sunday 30 June
9.15 - 10.45 panels
10.45 -11.15 coffee/tea
11.15 -12.45 panels
12.45 - 1.45 lunch break
1.45 - 3.30 closing plenary: television history
* John Ellis
* Laura Mulvey
PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED
Karen Brant Masking the horror of trauma: the hysterical body
of Lon
Chaney
Mike Hammond A welcome tonic: comdey, trauma and British cinema
Daniel Humphrey Cinema, memory and the dialectic of trauma: Derek
Jarman's
The Last of England
Peter Thomas Victimage and violence: Memento and trauma memory
Dale Hudson 'Darling, just be yourself tonight': national icon
(Irma
Vep) and cosmopolitan superstar (Maggie Cheung)
Corinne Oster De(con)structing/reconstructing the national space: the
delocalisation of French cinema in the films of Claire
Denis
Geraldine Vatan Marginality, immigration and the delocalisation of
modern
life in Westerns by Manuel Poitier
Davie Archibald Recycling the past: cinematic narratives of the
Spanish
Civil War
Jon Burrows 'The girl on the film': the influence of West End
musical
comedy on the star system in Britain in the 1910s
Dickon Copsey 'We are one people': the treatment of East German
history
in contemporary German cinema
Helen Hanson Painted women: picturing stars in 1940s Hollywood
David Martin-Jones Getting away with murder: performative identity in
contemporary temporal narratives
Rachel Moseley Funny girls and showgirls: Barbra Streisand, Shirley
MacLaine and the film musical
Nicole Fleetwood Digitizing the exotic: Africa, technology and Fatimah
Tuggar's Fusion Cuisine
Jerry Miller Literality and the raced spectator
Celine Shimizu 'Little brown fucking machines powered by rice': sex
tourists with cameras and prostitutes without movie
cameras
Daniel Barratt The role of primacy, priming, schemas and
reconstructive
memory in a first-time viewing of The Sixth Sense
Jayne Steel 'Bet she takes her knickers off': actors and a
residue of
audience recall
Damian Sutton Hollywood portraits: cinema as/and 'photographic
memory'
Gary Needham The giallo: popular Italian cinema and the notion
of the
filone
Sarah Smith From Dogma to acinema: can an avant-garde cinema emerge
from a doctrine of exclusion and prohibition?
Belen Vidal Villasur The letter as frame: period drama and the scene of
writing
Marshall Deutelbaum The compositional grid of Cinemascope
Linda Lewis The significance of design: Lang, Eisenstein and Tati
Christopher Williams The creation of space in Sunrise
Phillippa Gates Youth in action: negotiating masculinity in the
contemporary
Hollywood action film
James Lyons School's out for summer: teen movies, the Academy and
issues of critical legitimacy
Nadine Wills Singing adolescence: 1930s female juvenile desire
Chris Gittings Deforming genres: the Coen brothers, myth and nation
Jeff Johnson Pervert in the pulpit: the puritanical impulse of David
Lynch
Janet Staiger Rethinking authorship studies in a poststructural
era: the
case of Gus van Sant
Anna Powell Lost in the woods: The Blair Witch Project, Deleuze,
psychoanalysis and horror
Richard Rushton Gilles Deleuze and political modernism
Sharon Tay Deleuze meets Hitchcock; and the horror thereafter
Deirdre Martin Amusement tabou en Québec: cinema censorship and the
historic battle for drive-ins in the province of Québec
Greg Sims Building spectators in: the 'modernization' of French
cinemas, 1950-60
Sarah Stubbings Preserving the past, changing the present: cinema
conservation, its contexts and meanings
Guy Barefoot Not the smallest show on earth: 'community cinema'
in the
1980s
Martin Hunt Forever Amber: the Amber collective and British film
culture
Julia Knight Does the Lux have a future?: independent film and video
distribution in the UK
Colette Balmain Feminism, femininity and fury in rape-revenge films
Suzy Gordon Film, feminism and Melanie Klein: 'weird lullabies'
Yosefa Loshitzky The post-Holocaust Jew in the age of
postcolonialism: La
Haine revisited
Phil Powrie New representations of women in contemporary French
cinema
Katherine Roberts Migrant labour and gender relations in French emigre
cinema: Bourlem Guerdjou's Living in Paradise (1988)
Cathy Johnson Nigel Kneale and the development of the BBC script unit
Steve Mardy Tx, Granada TV and videotape: the false dawn of TV
documentary
Jamie Sexton British television, verite and experimentalism
Noel King Why are movies so bad again?: the persistence of a film
cultural discourse, 1975-2000
Jeffrey Sconce Preparing for 'the amazing transplant'
Jonathan Bignell Cinema andthe hieroglyphics of censorship
Liz Czach The evidence of Benjamin's optical unconscious
Alex Law/Jan Law Ratcatcher in the rye: Benjamin, urban rubbish and
childhood
Connie Balides Spendthrifts, speculators and the 'new morality' of
consumption in the nickelodeon era
Robin Larsen Emotion rules for the early modern Hollywood closeup
Livia Monnet 'A twinkling monad, shape-shifting across dimension':
intermediality, fantasy and special effects in The
Matrix
Aylish Wood The animated world of time/space and action
John Mundy Taking the British musical seriously: I'll be your
Sweetheart (1945)
Robert Murphy An alternative Robert Hamer
Jodi Brooks Mute dances and suspended beats: dance and the
time-image
Ruth Barton 'Musical gems of the Irish': the immigrant Irish
and 1930s
cinema
Lydia Papadimitriou Hollywood and the film musicals of Giannis Daliandis
Mark Brownrigg Close encounters of the theory kind: Adorno, Eisler
and a
score by John Williams
Kay Dickinson Realism, pain, video nasties and synthesizer
soundtracks
Stan Link Psychos post-Psycho: soundtrack models of anempathy
and the
differentiation of character pathologies
Alastair Phillips Female space and stardom in the postwar films of
Yasujiro Ozu
Sangeeta Mediratta Mother India: bandit women
Eva Parrondo Singing or speaking: anxiety and the female voice
in 1940s
film noir
Coral Houtman The quest for an answer: thrillers and the
hysterical text
Elizabeth Cowie The lived nightmare: trauma, anxiety and the ethical
aesthetics of horror.
Caroline Beven
Screen
Gilmorehill Centre for Theatre Film & TV
Glasgow University
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland UK
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