"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 ([log in to unmask]) or Melanie Williams ([log in to unmask]).

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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