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] ------ End of Forwarded Message ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html