Dear all,
Below is the programme for the above event to be held at De
Montfort University on 22 April this year. The day costs £30 waged, £20 unwaged
including lunch and coffees etc and payment can be made online following this
link https://store.dmu.ac.uk/catalogue/products.asp?compid=2&deptid=9&catID=31&hasClicked=1
DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY
CENTRE FOR ADAPTATIONS
Feminism and Adaptations Study Day
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Registration 9.30-10.00
(Room 2.33 Clephan Building) http://www.dmu.ac.uk/aboutdmu/campuses/index.jsp
10-11.30 Feminism, heritage,
history (Room 3.01, Clephan Building)
Rachel Carroll, University
of Teesside
‘Adapting Miss Wade:
“rehistoricising” sexuality in the 2008 BBC adaptation of Little Dorrit
Suzanne Speidel, Sheffield
Hallam University
‘The Passion, the Prose, and
the Image: gender and heritage in Ivory’s and Forster’s Howard’s End
Rebecca White, Durham
University
‘”Shall I be stared at like a
wild beast in a zoo?” Images of Austen in Becoming Jane and Miss
Austen Regrets
11.30-11.45 Tea and Coffee
(Cl.2.33)
11.45-13.15 Feminist
Readings/Feminist rewritings (Cl 3.01)
Shelley Cobb, University
of Southampton
‘The Virgin/whore Text: A
Feminist Critique of the ‘Faithful’ Adaptation
Alexia Bowler, Swansea
University
Adapting Genre/Appropriating
Icons: Urban Fairytales in a Postmodern Setting in Jane Campion’s In the Cut
Lindsey Scott, University
of Chester
‘”Will it consume me?
Awakening Shakespeare’s Ghosts in Julie Taymor’s Titus’
13.15-14.00 Lunch (Cl
2.33)
14.00 – 15.00 Genre,
appropriation and feminism (Cl 3.01)
Alice Ridout, Leeds
Metropolitan University
‘Lost in Austen: the
Feminist Politics of Nostalgia
Scott Freer, University of
Leicester
‘Brief Encounter and
the Female Malady’
15.00-15.30 Tea and Coffee
Cl2.33)
15.30-16.30 Feminism and
Popular Culture (Cl 3.01)
Esther Sonnet, University
of Portsmouth
‘Women’s Pulp Crime Fiction
Lisa Stead, University of
Exeter
‘Adapting Screen Images in
Fan Writing: Fan Cultures in British Silent Cinema
Imelda Whelehan, De
Montfort University
Why is Post-feminism so
boring?
16.30 – 17.00 Closing
Remarks (Cl3.01)