Below is the provisional program for the Historical Adventures Study Day run
by postgraduates at the School of Film and Television Studies, University of
East Anglia

ADMISSION IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL FACULTY, POSTGRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENTS
If you wish to attend contact [log in to unmask]

More information can be found at the website including directions on how to
get to UEA: http://www.helsinki.fi/~hkilpi/UEA/index.htm

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
All events at Elizabeth Fry Building, room 1.01

I Session, 9.00 - 10.45
Historical Epics

James Russell: Retelling the Epic: Gladiator (2000) and the Revival of the
Historical Epic Film

James Caterer: History and Narrative in Gladiator (2000)

Vincent Gaine: Existential Hero / Emergent Nation: Last of the Mohicans
(1992), Existentialism and America

Jonathan Stubbs: Captain Horatio Hornblower RN (1951) and Hollywood Runaway
Productions

Coffee Break, 30 min

II Session, 11.15 - 13.00
History, Fantasy and Masculinity

Sarah Godfrey: Representations of Recent History in British Film: The
Ratcatcher (1999) and East Is East (1999)

Hannah Hamad: Masculinity and Stardom in Road to Perdition (2002)

Lorcan McGrane: Superhero Narratives as Alternative History: Superman,
Wonder Woman and World War II

Kristian Moen: Fantasy and History in Thief of Baghdad (1940)

Lunch Break, 60 min

Plenary, 14.00 - 15.00

(to be arranged)

Coffee Break, 30 min

III Session, 15.30 - 16.45
National and International Histories

Pietari Kääpä: The Limited Scope of the National Village: Representations of
the National Past in the Cinema of Markku Pölönen

Pierluigi Ercole: Distributing the Peplum Film in Pre-WWI Britain

Harri Kilpi: Histoires Braudelliennes: Reflections on Methodological
Tripartition in the Analysis of Historical Adventure Films

Break, 30 min

IV Session, 17.15 - 18.30
Taste Distinctions in Historical Entertainment

Lawrence Napper: History, Media and the Middlebrow in Interwar Britain

Mark Jancovich: 'Charlton Heston is an Axiom': Spectacle and Performance in
the Development of the Blockbuster

Peter Krämer: The Decline of the Family Roadshows: Historical Epics,
Musicals and American Film Culture, 1967 - 1976

Many thanks.

Prof. Mark Jancovich
2.45 Arts Building
Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, 
United Kingdom. 

Tel: 01603 592787
Email: [log in to unmask]
 


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