This might be of interest to members of the MECCSA list:
International Conference
- Janespotting and Beyond -
Revising Genre and Identity in Recent British Costume Films, Heritage
Movies and Classic TV Serials
Margarethe-Bieber-Saal, Giessen, Germany, May 8 to 10, 2003
Justus-Liebig-University, Centre of Media and Interactivity
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Visit the "Janespotting" homepage at
http://uni-giessen.de/~ga20/projects.htm
Draft Programme (03/03)
Thursday, 08/05/12003
15.00 hrs. Registration
19.00 hrs. Welcoming Address
19.30 hrs. Introductory Session: Heritage Film/Costume Film
Eckart Voigts-Virchow (Giessen U):
Regenrifiying and Janespotting: A German view on 1990s Heritage Film
Andrew Higson (UEA Norwich):
English heritage, English literature, English cinema: finessing the frock
flick in the 1990s
Friday, 09/05/2003
Session: Heritage Shakespeare
09.00 hrs. Deborah Cartmell (DeMontfort's U, Leicester):
The Almereyda Hamlet and recent teen adaptations of Shakespeare
09.45 hrs. Roberta Pearson (Cardiff U):
Revisioning Shakespeare for British television
10.30 hrs. COFFEE BREAK
Session: Production and Reception/Teaching
11.00 hrs. Angela Krewani (Siegen U):
The transformation of heritage film production structures in the 1990s
11.45 hrs. Carola Surkamp (Giessen U):
Teaching heritage films
12.30 hrs. LUNCH
Session: Readings I – The mise-en-scène of Austen Powers
14.15 hrs. Pamela Church Gibson (London College of Fashion):
Feminism and colonialism in Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park
15.00 hrs. Raimund Borgmeier (Giessen U):
Heritage film and the picuresque garden
15.45 hrs. COFFEE BREAK
16.15 hrs. Barbara Schaff (Munich U):
Tableaux vivants in heritage films
Saturday, 10/05/2003
Session: Readings II – From Auntie's Heritage to Anti-heritage
09.00 hrs. Sarah Street (Bristol U):
The Mirror Crack'd: Heritage, History and self-reflexive discourse in The
Lost Prince and Murder at Harvard'.
09.45 hrs. Lucia Krämer (Regensburg U):
Subversion in disguise: Oliver Parker's adaptations of Oscar Wilde's An
Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest
10.30 hrs. COFFEE BREAK
11.00 hrs. Carolin Held (Tübingen U):
From heritage space to narrative space - anti-heritage aesthetics in the
two classic TV serials Our Mutual Friend (BBC 1998) and Vanity Fair (BBC
1998)
11.45 hrs. Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier (HU Berlin):
Recent Appropriations of Wuthering Heights on Film
12.30 hrs. LUNCH
END OF CONFERENCE
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