Below is the provisional program for the Historical Adventures Study Day run
by postgraduates at the School of Film and Television Studies, University of
East Anglia
ADMISSION IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL FACULTY, POSTGRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE
STUDENTS
If you wish to attend contact [log in to unmask]
More information can be found at the website including directions on how to
get to UEA: http://www.helsinki.fi/~hkilpi/UEA/index.htm
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
All events at Elizabeth Fry Building, room 1.01
I Session, 9.00 - 10.45
Historical Epics
James Russell: Retelling the Epic: Gladiator (2000) and the Revival of the
Historical Epic Film
James Caterer: History and Narrative in Gladiator (2000)
Vincent Gaine: Existential Hero / Emergent Nation: Last of the Mohicans
(1992), Existentialism and America
Jonathan Stubbs: Captain Horatio Hornblower RN (1951) and Hollywood Runaway
Productions
Coffee Break, 30 min
II Session, 11.15 - 13.00
History, Fantasy and Masculinity
Sarah Godfrey: Representations of Recent History in British Film: The
Ratcatcher (1999) and East Is East (1999)
Hannah Hamad: Masculinity and Stardom in Road to Perdition (2002)
Lorcan McGrane: Superhero Narratives as Alternative History: Superman,
Wonder Woman and World War II
Kristian Moen: Fantasy and History in Thief of Baghdad (1940)
Lunch Break, 60 min
Plenary, 14.00 - 15.00
(to be arranged)
Coffee Break, 30 min
III Session, 15.30 - 16.45
National and International Histories
Pietari Kääpä: The Limited Scope of the National Village: Representations of
the National Past in the Cinema of Markku Pölönen
Pierluigi Ercole: Distributing the Peplum Film in Pre-WWI Britain
Harri Kilpi: Histoires Braudelliennes: Reflections on Methodological
Tripartition in the Analysis of Historical Adventure Films
Break, 30 min
IV Session, 17.15 - 18.30
Taste Distinctions in Historical Entertainment
Lawrence Napper: History, Media and the Middlebrow in Interwar Britain
Mark Jancovich: 'Charlton Heston is an Axiom': Spectacle and Performance in
the Development of the Blockbuster
Peter Krämer: The Decline of the Family Roadshows: Historical Epics,
Musicals and American Film Culture, 1967 - 1976
Many thanks.
Prof. Mark Jancovich
2.45 Arts Building
Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ,
United Kingdom.
Tel: 01603 592787
Email: [log in to unmask]
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