Dear Screen-L,
 
I have attached a posting for Screen-L for the UEA Graduate Study Day.
 
Just to be sure, I've also cut and paste the posting below.
 
Many thanks,
 
Christine Cornea
 
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The School of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia invite anyone considering postgraduate studies to the Graduate Study Day, which is being held on Wednesday 9th November 2011.


Details of the Study Day are listed below (papers featured for the Study Day are presented by current PhD students, recently graduated PhD students, and current Lecturers with the School): 
 
DRAMATISING DISASTER
Event, Spectacle, Narrative, Character
 
Study Day
UEA School of Film and Television Studies
Wednesday 9th November, C. HALL 0.17
 
 
 9:45am – WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION – Dr Christine Cornea
 
10:00-11:15 – PERSONAL IDENTITY AND DISASTER
Hannah Ellison, ‘High School is a Battlefield for Your Heart: Teen Networks' Obsession with Apocalyptic Drama.’
Liz Powell, ‘Diagnosis Disaster: Cultural Narratives of Cancer and Female Identity in Stepmom and The Family Stone.’
Rhys Owain Thomas, ‘Queering Disaster: Re-categorising Life and Death in Torchwood: Miracle Day.’
 
-BREAK-
 
11:30-1:10 – REPRESENTING THE AFTERMATH: NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS
Sophie Halliday, ‘“Catastrophic Beauty”: New York as a Site of Urban Warfare in Contemporary Video Games.’
Stephen Mitchell, ‘(Re)constructing the Twin Towers: Man on Wire and the Traumatic Aesthetics of 9/11.’
Nina Mickwitz, ‘After the Deluge: Everyday Tactics and Representational Strategies in a Time of Crisis.’
Ed Clough, ‘Duelling and Jammin': The Satisfactions of Treme.’ -LUNCH-2:00-3:40pm – INTERNATIONAL DISASTER AND CONFLICTElizabeth Rawitsch, ‘“A Free World and a Slave World”: Frank Capra, National Ideology, and the Fractured Far East in The Battle of China.’ Jonathan Wroot, ‘Why Japan Sank in 1973 and 2006.’Peter Krämer, ‘“Mein Führer, I can walk!”: The Multiple Catastrophes of Dr. Strangelove.’Steph Fuller, ‘“They are no longer aliens. They are residents”: Alien Invasion and National Identity in Monsters.’ -BREAK- 4:00-5:15 – END TIMES IN APOCALYPTIC CINEMADr Vincent M. Gaine, ‘The End of the World as We Know It - which is? Ethics and the End in The Day After Tomorrow.’Heather Wintle, ‘Can Taboo Survive the Apocalypse? Children in the Crosshairs and Problems of Narrative Resolution in The Road and The Mist.’Tony Degouveia, ‘Disaster and Determinism.’5:15pm - END OF PANELS5:15pm - END OF PANELS 6:00pm – CHARITY SCREENING, ARTS 01.0120th Century Boys (Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Japan, 2008)Introduced by Dr Rayna Denison: ‘Japan’s New Disaster Movies before the 2011 Earthquake.’All donations will go to Akai Hane Disaster Relief for the Japan Earthquake
If you want to attend the study day, please contact Dr Christine Cornea ([log in to unmask]).
 
Christine Cornea
 
Dr Christine Cornea
Film and Television Studies
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ,
United Kingdom.
 
Tel: 01603 592873
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