Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation
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Saturday 10 May 2008
Conference Programme
Venue: Hitchcock Cinema, Arts G.19, Queen Mary, University of London,
Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
9am – 9.30am Registration and coffee
9.30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Dr Jeremy Hicks
(Queen Mary, University of London)
Keynote Speaker: Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester)
From Russia with Love? James Bond, the Cold War and Anglo-Russian Relations
10.00am Panel 1: Importing Russia
Chair: Lucy Bolton (QMUL)
Harlow Robinson, Russian Music in Hollywood Cinema
Amy Sargeant, Gaming with Pushkin
Raisa Sidenova, Mother Russia and her Daughters: Representations of
Russian Women in Hollywood Films, 1941-45
11.15am Coffee
11.30am
Panel 2: Russian Women: Mothers and Others
Chair: Sophie Mayer (University of Cambridge)
Candyce Veal, Planes of Discourse: Defining Women through Soviet
Aviation on Screen
Emily Schuckman, The Prostitutka Abroad: Foreign Representations of the
Russian Prostitute
Ekaterina Vassileva, Eternal Mothers and Lost Sons: Sexual and National
Identity in the Soviet Film Since the 1960s
1pm-1.45 pm
Buffet Lunch.
Loop screening of video composition Towards the True Man or a Reach Too
Far (Pavla Alchin), UK 2008, 10 mins Hitchcock Cinema
1.45-2.15pm Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Julian Graffy (SSEES-UCL)
In the Hinterland: Evolving Cinematic Images of Life in the Russian
Provinces
2.15pm Panel 3: No More Heroes?
Chair: John Haynes (University of Essex)
William Brown, The Portrayal of Fatherhood in Recent Russian Cinema
Natalia Danilova, Masculinity and The Post-Soviet Warrior
3.15pm Coffee
3.30pm Panel 4: Constructing and Reconstructing Russian Identity
Chair: Jeremy Hicks (QMUL)
Daniel Levitsky, The Cinematic Relaunch of Russia’s Soviet Identity,
1953-1968
Jasmijn Van Gorp, The Russian Blockbuster as a Tool to Articulate a
National Identity: The Case of The Ninth Regiment
4.30pm Comfort Break
4.45pm Panel 5: Russianness and Otherness
Chair: Julian Graffy (SSEES-UCL)
Anna Hillman, Representing Globalization and Russian National Identity
in Crisis: Iurii Mamin’s Okno v Parizh
Lars Kristensen, Framing Post-Soviet Russians Abroad in Cinema: A
Transnational Challenge to Theory
Olga Tabachnikova, Russian Culture: Western View in the Russian Mirror
6.00pm Concluding remarks followed by wine reception
7.00pm Dinnner & Post-mortem at L’Oasis restaurant, Mile End Road
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