Screen Studies Conference 2-4 July 2004
University of Glasgow

Please find below details of the plenaries and panels scheduled for this
summer's Screen Studies Conference in Scotland. Updates and amendments will
be posted regularly on the Screen website, www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk.

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Opening plenary. Emotional acts: children and film
* Marsha Kinder - University of Southern California
Butcher Boys in the City of God: the representation of violent children
* Maire Messenger Davies - University of Ulster at Coleraine
Crazy spaces: the politics of children's secret drama
* Emma Wilson - Cambridge University
Angelic creatures: children, emotion and viewing in contemporary European
cinema


Closing plenary. Utopia/dystopia: the child in European cinema
* Phil Powrie - University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Unfamiliar families: the child's view in recent French cinema
* James Leggott - Newcastle University
Like father? Children and parents in contemporary British social realist cinema
* Paul Julian Smith - Stanford University
Big babies: Javier Fesser's adult children
* Paul Sutton - University of Surrey, Roehampton
The child in contemporary Italian cinema


Other panels

* Michele Aaron - Brunel University
Death and the 'moving' image
* Monica Pearl - University of Manchester
Death and representation in documentary autobiography
* Christopher Pullen - Bournemouth University
Children of the third world and AIDS representation in documentary: agency,
performance and ethics
* Effie Rassos - University of New South Wales
To be dead, even before the dying begins: Silverlake Life: the View From Here


* Bruce Bennett - Lancaster University
Child-robot couples in recent science fiction film and television
* Leon Gurevitch - Lancaster University
A nightmare before Christmas: narrative articulations of 'consumerism' in
children's animated features
* Kirsty L. Stevenson - Lancaster University
'You're never too old to act young!' The construction of the child/mother
in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarves


* James Donald - University of New South Wales
Talkies, technology and 'race'
* Ayumi Hata - Nagoya University
Incorporating existing voice performers into documentary: Japan's early
sound practice
* Corin Willis - Liverpool John Moores University
The minstrel gaze? Minstrelisation shots and racial looking in Hollywood's
early sound era


* Kevin Donnelly - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Celestial voices: Pink Floyd, progressive rock and the film soundtrack
* Ruth Doughty - University of Wales, Bangor
Spike Lee: signifyin' on Gershwin's 'Summertime'
* Jamie Sexton - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
'If you find earth boring': Space is the Place and Afrofuturism


* Christopher Gow - University of Warwick
Changing representations of children in Iranian cinema
* Nacim Pak - School of Oriental and African Studies - University of London
Iranian cinema and the Islamic state
* Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad - School of Oriental and African Studies -
University of London
Children in Iranian art cinema


* Tytti Soila - Stockholm University
Children's film as a utopian realm
* Malena Janson - Stockholm University
A close look at the Swedish children's film aesthetics
* Ingrid Stigsdotter - Stockholm University previously Birkbeck College
Lukas Moodysson and the Swedish tradition of representing the perspective
of children on film
* John Dara Waldron - Stockholm University/University of Limerick
The child in crisis: reflections on Swedish national cinema. A case study
of Bergman and Moodysson


* Stan Link - Vanderbilt University
The monster in the music box: endangered children in the film score
* Robert Miklitsch - Ohio University
Connie Stevens, Silencio and other sonic phenomena in Mulholland Drive
* Gary Needham - Liverpool John Moores University/University of Glasgow
Dance music and horror film spectatorship


* David Martin-Jones - Northumbria University
The post-devolutionary representation of the Scottish squaddie, from Too
Late the Hero (1969) to Dog Soldiers (2001)
* Jonny Murray - Edinburgh College of Art
'We're the Kids In America'? Childhood allegories of transatlantic
influence in late 1990s Scottish cinema
* Sarah Neely - University of Paisley
Scotland and the heritage film


* Robert Murphy - De Montfort University
The child and the killer
* Colin Sell - University of Essex
The child between: interventionist children in three films by Carol Reed
* Melanie Williams - University of Hull
'I'm not a lady!': Tiger Bay (1959) and the figure of the young girl in
British cinema of the 1950s
* K. J. Shepherdson - Canterbury Christ Church University College
Entrapment and escape: proletarian child protagonists in Kes and Billy Elliot


* Gaylyn        Studlar - University of Michigan
Dimpled depravity? Shirley Temple and the erotic problem of screen girlhood
* Rose Theresa - University of Virginia
'I want to do that too!'. Performance, music and mimicry in the Civil War
movies of Shirley Temple
* Judy Woodside - Penn State University
The ironies of Andy Hardy's extended adolescence


* Anita Biressi - Roehampton, University of Surrey
New spectacles of suffering on the small screen
* Su Holmes - Southampton Institute
'The decision Š is up to you!': approaching the 'interactive' audience in
reality TV
* Heather Nunn - Roehampton, University of Surrey
Reality TV and the space of the therapy playroom


* Tara Forrest - University of New South Wales
Raw materials for the imagination: on Alexander Kluge's work for television
* Jason Jacobs - Griffith University
An international approach to television history and aesthetics
* Charles Leary - New York University
Etude in black and white: Cassavetes on television


* Nandini Chandra
The child's experience of the city in Bombay cinema
* Stephi Hemelryk Donald - University of Technology, Sydney
Film, family and feeling: Ganqing
* Stephen Hay - University of Leeds
>From Scottish playgrounds to Cambodian orphanages: the defining presence of
children in the cinema of Bertrand Tavernier


* Jonathan Bignell - University of Reading
Familiar aliens: Teletubbies, television and the child
* Matthew Jacobsen - Queen Mary, University of London
Japan's lost children: the joy of independence and the horror of separation
in contemporary Japanese fantasy
* Lucy Mazdon - University of Southampton
The BBC's Child of Our Time: born, made or made by television?


* Mark Browning
The child in time: Cronenberg's use of chronology in Spider
* Fred Davies - University of Sussex
Anne Frank: little girl lost and found in film and TV
* Alisa Lebow - University of the West of England
Impossible unities: reframing the family in Alan Berliner's Nobody's
Business and Abraham Ravett's Everything's for You


* Mary Pagano -Northwestern Univesrity
The child robot in AI
* Jules Pidduck - Lancaster University
Audiovisual queer childhood


* Chris Holmlund -University of Tennessee
The appeal of Spy Kids in action
* Ewan Kirkland -University of Sussex
Children's cinema, modernity and mousetrap technology


* Dorothee Bonnigal-Katz - Lycee Saint-Louis
Perverse pleasure and cinematic innocence: the trope of the 'innocent
child' in Martin Scorsese's cinema
* Russell Campbell - Victoria University of Wellington
The adolescent prostitute in film


* Lucy Foster -Lancaster University
Film archives and the early cinema audience
* Richard Howells - University of Leeds
Louis le Prince: the body of evidence


* Julia Knight - University of Luton
Securing the future? Problems of women's film/video distribution
* Melanie Selfe - University of Nottingham
Building little Britons: central education policy and regional resistance
in 1930s Sight and Sound
* Peter Thomas - Luton University
The GLC and independent film and video in the 1980s


* Laure Brost - University of California, Los Angeles
Green hair and rutilant dreams: a chromatic analysis of childhood
imagination in cinema
* Dervila Layden - University College, Dublin
Crisis children: The Butcher Boy and Song for a Raggy Boy
* Peter Baxter - Queen's University
Seeing and understanding: memories of a colonialist childhood


* Jeremy Hicks - Queen Mary, University of London
The child in Dziga Vertov
* Anna Maria Mullally - University of Warwick
Growing pains: representations of childhood and youth in GDR cinema


* Basil Glynn - University of Nottingham
Preserved on film: The Mummy, silent cinema and Egyptomania
* Pamela Hutchinson - Birkbeck College, University of London
Shakespeare, Griffith and the film in 1908: Taming of the Shrew


* Glyn Davis    Edinburgh College of Art
Conservatism and colonialism: The Blue Planet's racism
* Jan Richard Kjelstrup - University of Oslo
Once more, with feeling - aesthetic breaks in TV drama spectaculars
* Julianne Stewart - University of Southern Queensland
How I met my ancestor on SBS Television last Sunday night


* Catherine Constable - Sheffield Hallam University
Baudrillard re/loaded: postmodernism through the Matrix trilogy
* Wendy Everett - University of Bath
Chaos, networks and the architecture of complexity
* Aylish Wood - University of Canterbury
Bits byte back: digital phenomenology in Timecode and Hulk


* Catherine Grant - University of Kent
In its master's voice: Timecode and the director's commentary
* C. Paul Sellors - Napier University
A different perspective on filmic authorship


* Anna Claydon - Edge Hill College of HE
The adult as child: innocence and love in Amelie and The City of Lost Children
* Nicole Cloarec - Rennes1 University
The telltale child in Peter Greenaway's features
* Julian Cornell - New York University
No place like home: circumscribing fantasy in American children's films


* Josephine Dolan - University of the West of England
The child star: performance, embodiment and naturalized childhood
* Amber Watts - Northwestern University
Former child stars and the meaning of failed celebrity


* Jim Ellis - University of Calgary
Temporality and loss in Davies's House of Mirth
* Iris Kleinecke - University of Warwick
Beyond adaptation: The Forsyte Saga on television
* Steven Peacock - University of Kent
'It's always the children': the weight of responsibility in There's Always
Tomorrow


* Thalia Baldwin - University of Kent
Seeing aspects of Memento
* Richard Rushton - Lancaster University
The unconscious optics of childhood: Walter Benjamin and Steven Spielberg
* Damian Sutton - The Glasgow School of Art
The uses of Deleuze
* Colette Balmain - Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Beyond point-of-view: trauma in/and/of the gaze in Promenons-nous dans les
bois and Trauma - an alternative [feminist] perspective?

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