For all those interested in attending our study day, the details of the day are below. All welcome. "What's Past is Present" Study Day Schedule 17th February 2009 09:50 Introductions - Arts 3.03 10:00 - 11:00 Session One: History and National Identity - Arts 3.03 Rayna Denison - In Love with Victorian Britain: Japanese Anime Representations of the British Past Vincent Gaine - "The Last of the Mohicans": Existential Myth Heather Wintle - National Trauma and the Ambivalent Treatment of Blitz Nostalgia in Contemporary British Science Fiction/Horror Cinema 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee 11:30 - 12:45 Session Two: History and Truth - Arts 3.03 Brett Mills - Days of Future Past: Documenting the Future Su Holmes - 'There's nothing really better than what you're used to, is there?': Constructions of 1950s British television on television Michael Ahmed - Home is Where the Heartache is: Historic Revisionism, Postmodern Pastiche or Nostalgic Misrepresentation: The Problem with "Far From Heaven" Lindsay Steenberg - Hollywood Imagines the Archaeological Past in The Mummy and Indiana Jones Franchises 12:45 - 2pm: Lunch 2:00 - 3:15 Session Three: History and Audience - Drama Studio Keith Johnston - Film History as "the past": homage, quotation and recreation in online fandom Mark Jancovich- 'Like a Battering Ram Trying to Knock Down the Door': the Critical Reception of the Historical Epic in the 1950s and 1960s Oliver Gruner - "Welcome Back to the Age of Jive": Billy Joel Music Videos and the "Sixties" Derek Johnston - Parent Issues: How "Life on Mars" Negotiates a Television Generation Gap 3:15 - 3:45 Coffee 3:45 - 4:45 Session Four: History and the Present - Drama Studio Liz Powell - "The Quiet American" Rachel Mizsei-Ward - Scream, Gnarls Barkley, Scream: Beggin' for a nostalgic blaxploitation music video? Helen Warner - 'Undressing Mad Men': Contemporary Fashion and Vintage Costume in "Mad Men" 4:45 Mark Jancovich - Thanks and concluding remarks - Drama Studio Prof. Mark Jancovich Head of School Film and Television Studies University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom. Tel: 01603 592787 Email: [log in to unmask] ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org