Dear Colleague this is to remind you that our annual conference will take place at Kings College London on *Thursday 28 April*. The papers to be presented (circulated in advance to attenders who have paid the conference fee) are as follows: * Mary Harrod (King’s College, London): Sweet Nothings: Imagining the Inexpressible in Contemporary French Romantic Comedy * Annabelle Doherty (University of Sydney): Superimposition and Cultural Memory in Chabrol’s and Renoir’s Adaptations of Madame Bovary * Thomas Pillard (Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre): L’articulation entre la parole de l’acteur et les images génériques dans le cinéma de genre français d’après-guerre : le cas de Fernandel dans L’Ennemi Public n°1 (Henri Verneuil, 1953 * Emma Bielecki: From Page to Screen: The Shifting Identities of Fantômas * Pascal Laborderie (Université d’Orléans): La généralisation de la parole dans les films éducatifs français des années 1930 * Sarah Leahy (Newcastle University) and Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan University): Reassessing the history of French cinema : The understated role of French screenwriters * Codruta Morari (Wellesley College): Dire l’absence: subjectivité et cinéphilie de Rohmer à Ozon * Alina Opreanu (University of Harvard): Envisioning Loss: Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Cinema of Mourning * Cécile Sorin (Université de Paris VIII): Le pasticciaccio à la française : les dialogues dans les films de Kechiche * Alison Levine (University of Virginia): Words on Trial: Oral Performance in Abderrahamane Sissako’s Bamako * Tijana Mamula (John Cabot University): Metaphorically Seeing: The Place Names of Marguerite Duras * Alison Smith (University of Liverpool): Crossing the linguistic threshold: language and cultural meetings in Philippe Lioret’s Welcome and Rachid Bouchareb’s London River You will find details of the location and how to pay online here: http://surrey.ac.uk/fahs/research/sfc/annualconference/ _____________________________________________________ Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey GU2 7XH [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Executive Asst: [log in to unmask] (0)1483689445 Studies in French Cinema: http://surrey.ac.uk/fahs/research/sfc _____________________________________________________ ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]