'Screening the Unreal', Screen Studies Symposium, 28 June, University of Brighton, School of Media

University of Brighton
School of Media

Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group (REG)

Screening the Unreal 2019

Friday 28 June 2019

Grand Parade Campus
Edward Street Building
Rooms ES309, ES305

09.45-10.00      Introduction and Welcome [ES309]

10.00-11.30      Panel A [ES309]
William Proctor (Bournemouth), ‘Rebuilding Elm Street: Authorship, Regimes of (Sub)Cultural Value, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema in the Twenty-First Century​’
Martin Fradley (Independent), ‘"This Book is about American Popular Culture in the Age of Extremism”: Cine/Telefantasy, Ideological Critique and the 'Culture Wars'
Ewan Kirkland (UoB: FSS), ‘The Gothic Gameplay of What Remains of Edith Finch’

11.30-11.45      Coffee / Tea Break

11.45-13.15      Panel B (i) [ES305]
Douglas McNaughton (UoB: FSS), ‘Acting, Performance and Excess in 1970s Telefantasy’
Jean Martin (UoB: DMSA), ‘The Sinister in Electronic Sound’
Amy Godliman, (UoB: DDM), ‘Doggerman Radio: A Multimedia Landscape of Historical Flotsam’

11.45-13.15      Panel B (ii) [ES309]
Lindsay Hallam (UEL), ‘Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return’
Sally Miller (UoB: Photography), ‘Screening the Lacanian Real: Ballard, Cronenberg, Crash’
Aris Mousoutzanis (UoB, FSS), ‘Bare Life, States of Exception and the Biopolitics of Dystopia’

13.15-14.30      Lunch Break [ES305] / Screening and/or Panel Discussion [ES309]

14.30-16.00      Panel C [ES309]
Emma Withers (UoB, FSS), ‘Posthumanism in Claire Dennis’s High Life (2018)’
Stacey Abbot (Roehampton), ‘When Aliens meet Vampires: Near Dark (Bigelow 1987) as Gothic Action Film'
Kate Meakin (Sussex), ‘A White Feminist Dystopia: Chrononormativity and Historical Amnesia in The Handmaid's Tale Protests’

16.00-16.15      Coffee / Tea Break

16.15-17.45      Panel D [ES309]
Monica Germanà (Westminster), ‘The Resistance of the Undead in Sicilian Ghost Story (2018)’
Christine Hui (Sussex), ‘Sakura Perfume: Representations of the Nation in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya”.
Deborah Philips (UoB: English Literature), ‘Utopia, Nostalgia and National Identity in British Bake Off’

17.45-18.00      Concluding Remarks and Future Plans [ES309]


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