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Kathryn Bigelow: A Visionary Director
University of Wolverhampton in collaboration with Light House Media Centre
Thursday July 11th 2019 at Light House Media Centre, Wolverhampton
Keynotes: Dr Deborah Jermyn, University of Roehampton and Dr Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton
Film director Kathryn Bigelow is the first female filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Director, controversially achieving it for The Hurt Locker (2008) over James Cameron’s Avatar (2009). The Hurt Locker went on to win six Academy Awards in total and achieved widespread critical acclaim, although it is Zero Dark Thirty, released in 2012, that is Bigelow’s most successful film commercially. The papers here respond to Bigelow’s vision and examine various aspects of her burgeoning film career, marked more recently by Detroit (2017). We welcome you to our second annual Film Directors Conference at Light House on 11th July.
Please register at: https://www.estore.wlv.ac.uk/product-catalogue/conferences-events/school-of-art-design/kathryn-bigelow-a-visionary-director
9.30-10.00 Registration and Coffee
10.00-10.45 Keynote: Stella Hockenhull (University of Wolverhampton)
Women Do Make Horror: Female Filmmakers in Hollywood
10.45-11.00 Tea and coffee
11.00-12.30 PANEL 1: AUTEURISM, NEO-STARDOM AND PARATEXTUALITY - Cinema 2
Rona Murray (Lancaster University) - Kathryn Bigelow: Practice, Paratext and the Auteur as ‘Delivery System’
Carl Sweeney (University of Wolverhampton) - Rethinking Auteurism: Kathryn Bigelow and the Director as Neo-Star
Christa van Raalte (University of Bournemouth) - Kathryn Bigelow and the Grammar of Obsession
12.30-1.30 Lunch
1.30-3.00 PANEL 2: ISSUES OF DIVERSITY - Cinema 2
Claire Jenkins (University of Leicester) - Kathryn Bigelow and Hollywood’s other Women Directors
Daisy Richards (de Montfort University) – ‘I think we’ve lost her’: Zero Dark Thirty and the Gendered Dangers of Interpretation
Ben Halligan (University of Wolverhampton) - White Imperialist Feminism: Bigelow’s Eco-Eschatology
300-3.15 Tea and Coffee
3.15-5.00 PANEL 3 BIGELOW, GENRE AND ACTION CINEMA Cinema 2
Thomas Britt (George Mason University - Virginia) – Variations on "The Lonely Walk" in the Films of Kathryn Bigelow
Christopher Jones (University of Wolverhampton) – Bigelow’s Images of War
Cormac Donnelly (Futureworks Manchester) – Chasing the Narrative - Re-situating the Action in Point Break
Vincent Gaine (Loughborough University) - Kathryn Bigelow: New Action Realist
5.15-5.30 Tea and coffee
5.30-6.15 Keynote: Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton)
How does she look?: Bigelow's Vision/Visioning Bigelow
6.15-7.00 Wine Reception
7.15 Conference Dinner, Bella, Chapel Ash
For details and enquiries contact Fran Pheasant-Kelly at [log in to unmask]
For further conference details see website at https://www.wlv.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/centre-for-film-media-discourse-and-culture/kathryn-bigelow-a-visionary-filmmaker-/
Special thanks to Marc Austin for the logo design
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