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Dear All,
We are delighted announced that registration is now open for Acting Out – A
Symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation to be held on
Friday March 20 2009, in Department of Film, Theatre and Television,
University of Reading, UK
Please circulate to colleagues, post-doctoral researchers and postgraduates.
best wishes,
Lucy Fife Donaldson & Ceri Hovland
Acting Out – A Symposium on Screen Performance, Inference and Interpretation
Friday March 20 2009, in Department of Film, Theatre and Television,
University of Reading, UK
Keynote Speaker – Andrew Klevan, (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford)
– Living Meaning: The Fluidity of Film Performance
This one-day symposium seeks to provide a forum for scholars of screen
acting to meet and progress the spate of recent work on performance on film.
We would like to explore how we draw out performance through an
interrogation of the relationship between performance, inference and
interpretation.
Confirmed speakers so far:
Professor John Adams, University of Bristol - Re-producing screen performance
Professor Martin Barker, University of Aberystwyth - How do audiences
evaluate acting on screen? A case study using The Usual Suspects
Alex Clayton, University of Bristol - Acting to Save the World: Team
America, Comedy and Performance
Kathrina Glitre, University of the West of England – Still Acting: Doing
nothing as an acting choice
David Morrison, King’s College, London – Performing Loneliness
Ronan Paterson, University of Teesside – A Little Touch of Harry in the
Night: An Exploration of the Contrasting acting Styles of Laurence Olivier
and Kenneth Branagh in their respective films of Shakespeare’s Henry V
Steven Peacock, University of Hertfordshire – Placing Gesture in Film
Professor Victor F. Perkins, University of Warwick – The Eloquence of Bad Acting
Sarah Thomas, University of Aberystwyth – The Return of the ‘Repressive’:
producing and consuming contrasting modes of performance in Classical
Hollywood cinema and The Best Years of Lives
A full programme will follow shortly
Registration now open – deadline 27th February 2009 (Early bird rate until
30th Jan)
Registration forms and further information for the symposium will be
available soon from our website:
http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-actingout.asp
In the meantime, please contact the organisers – Ceri Hovland & Lucy Fife
Donaldson – for a registration form, or any further enquiries, at
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