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"Keep Calm and Carry On": New Perspectives on British Cinema and Television
Date:
January 25th 2010
"Keep Calm and Carry On": New Perspectives on British Cinema and Television
17th February 2009
All sessions take place in Arts 3.03
09:30 Keynote Speaker
Charles Barr, ‘The UEA History of British Cinema and Television’
10:30 Session One: Exploitation and Amateurism
• Michael Ahmed, ‘“Counting on Compton”, Exploitation, Sexploitation and Art Films: The Untold Story of Independent Film Production, Distribution and Exhibition in 1960s British Cinema.’
• Francis Dyson, ‘Rethinking the Definition of Amateur Film.’
• Derek Johnston, ‘“And the BBC Created Hammer…”: Examining the Interdependence of Public Service Broadcaster and Exploitation Film-maker.’
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Session Two: Interwar British cinema
• Clare Watson, ‘Women in Silent British Cinema.’
• Oliver Gruner, ‘“British Films for British People”: The British Film Weeks of 1924.’
• Elizabeth Rawitsch, ‘The Nationality of Utopia: British Reception of Lost Horizon in 1937’
2:30 Coffee break
3:00 Session Three: Stardom, Celebrity and Fame
• Su Holmes, ‘“Whoever heard of anyone being a screaming success for doing nothing?”: ‘Sabrina,’ the BBC and television fame in the 1950s.
• Melanie Williams, ‘Hardy Kruger: transnational star in British cinema’
• Helen Warner, ‘A Thoroughly Modern Family, Yet Everyday Family Audience: Television and the Family Audience.’
4:30 Closing remarks / debate Melanie and Keith
Attendance is FREE and all are welcome, particularly those consider applying to UEA for Graduate Studies.
If you would like to attend, please contact Keith Johnston (Keith.Johnston@uea.ac.uk) or Melanie Williams (Melanie.Williams@uea.ac.uk).
Best wishes
Mark
Professor Mark Jancovich
Head of School
Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia
Norwich NR4 7TJ
Tel: 01603 592787
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