"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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