Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group (REG)
Screening the Unreal 2019
Friday 28 June 2019
Grand Parade Campus
Edward Street Building
Rooms ES309, ES305
09.45-10.00 Introduction and Welcome [ES309]
10.00-11.30 Panel A [ES309]
· William Proctor (Bournemouth), ‘A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Critical Industrial Practice, Regimes of (Sub)Cultural Value, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema.
· Martin Fradley (Independent), ‘"This Book is about American Popular Culture in the Age of Extremism”: Cine/Telefantasy, Ideological Critique and the 'Culture Wars'
· Ewan Kirkland (UoB: FSS), ‘The Gothic Gameplay of What Remains of Edith Finch’
11.30-11.45 Coffee / Tea Break
11.45-13.15 Panel B (i) [ES305]
· Douglas McNaughton (UoB: FSS), ‘Acting, Performance and Excess in 1970s Telefantasy’
· Jean Martin (UoB: DMSA), ‘The Sinister in Electronic Sound’
· Amy Godliman, (UoB: DDM), ‘Doggerland Radio: A Multimedia Landscape of Historical Flotsam’
11.45-13.15 Panel B (ii) [ES309]
· Lindsay Hallam (UEL), ‘Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return’
· Sally Miller (UoB: Photography), ‘Screening the Lacanian Real: Ballard, Cronenberg, Crash’
· Aris Mousoutzanis (UoB, FSS), ‘Bare Life, States of Exception and the Biopolitics of Dystopia’
13.15-14.30 Lunch Break [ES305] / Screening and/or Panel Discussion [ES309]
14.30-16.00 Panel C [ES309]
· Emma Withers (UoB, FSS), ‘Posthumanism in Claire Dennis’s High Life (2018)’
· Stacey Abbott (Roehampton), ‘When Aliens meet Vampires: Near Dark (Bigelow 1987) as Gothic Action Film'
· Kate Meakin (Sussex), ‘A White Feminist Dystopia: Chrononormativity and Historical Amnesia in The Handmaid's Tale Protests’
16.00-16.15 Coffee / Tea Break
16.15-17.45 Panel D [ES309]
· Monica Germanà (Westminster), ‘The Resistance of the Undead in Sicilian Ghost Story (2018)’
· Christine Hui (Sussex), ‘Sakura Perfume: Representations of the Nation in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata 2013)”.
· Ptof Deborah Philips (UoB: English Literature), ‘Utopia, Nostalgia and National Identity in British Bake Off’
17.45-18.00 Concluding Remarks and Future Plans [ES309]