Symposium, 'Film and the Other Arts, 1895-1955' (Oxford, 4-5 April 2014): programme and registration

From: Adeline Mueller <[email protected]>

* with apologies for cross-posting *

Dear H-FILM colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the programme for the symposium, 'Film and =
the Other Arts, 1895-1955', to be convened at the Grove Auditorium, =
Magdalen College, University of Oxford, on Friday-Saturday 4-5 April =
2014.=20

Registration: Advance registration for attendees is required. =
Registration fees are payable by cheque by 31 March: the fees (=A335 =
full or =A325 student) include a catered college lunch on the Saturday. =
Attendees are also welcome to attend the Friday symposium dinner for an =
additional fee of =A320, but places are limited so early notice is =
recommended. For any further enquiries and to register, please contact =
Dr Adeline Mueller at [email protected]

Convenors: Professor Laura Marcus (Oxford, English), Dr Adeline Mueller =
(Oxford, Music)
This symposium is generously supported by a grant from the Ludwig Fund.


FILM AND THE OTHER ARTS, 1895-1955
- an interdisciplinary symposium -
Friday-Saturday 4-5 April 2014
Grove Auditorium, Magdalen College, University of Oxford

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME:
FRIDAY 4 APRIL

1:30-2:00 =96 registration, coffee/tea

2:00-2:10 =96 welcome

2:10-3:45 =96 ECHOES=20

	Sarah Street (University of Bristol, Film): =91Synthetic Dreams: =
Colour-Film-Music in the 1920s=92

	Adeline Mueller (University of Oxford, Music): =91Silent Mozart=92=


	Claire Davison-P=E9gon (Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III, Modernist =
Literature): =91Transfigured Might: Alexander Nevsky as H=F6rspiel=92

4:00-5:05 =96 VOICES

	Laura Marcus (University of Oxford, English): =91Silence, Sound =
and the City in the 1920s and 30s=92

	Jonathan Hicks (King=92s College London, Music): =91Streets and =
Singers in Faubourg Films, c. 1930=92

5:20-6:20 =96 KEYNOTE #1 =96 David Trotter (Cambridge, English): =
=91Hollywood=92s Toilettes de Venus=92

7:00-8:15 =96 symposium dinner

8:45-10:30 =96 SCREENING =96 Jane Pritchard (Victoria and Albert Museum, =
Dance): A Selection of Dance Films from the Archives


SATURDAY 5 APRIL

9:00-10:05 =96 FRAMES

	Judith Buchanan (University of York, Film and Literature): =
=91Magic paintbrushes and outwitted artists: the framing of fine art in =
early cinema=92

	John David Rhodes (University of Sussex, English Literature and =
Visual Culture): =91Mid-Century Modernist Wunderkammer: The Eames House =
and the Spectacle of Property=92

10:20-11:25 =96 BODIES

	Manishita Dass (Royal Holloway, University of London, World =
Cinema): =91Playing to the Camera: Theatricality and Performance in =
Indian Films, 1930s-1940s=92

	Kate Elswit (University of Bristol, Theatre (Dance)): =91Dance=92s=
 Intellectual Property and the Protection of Memory in Postwar West =
Germany: Kurt Jooss versus Herzog Film and the Junge Film-Union=92

11:40-1:15 =96 WORDS

	Harriet Wragg (University of Oxford, English):  =91Creating =
Continuity: The intertitle's role in three film adaptations of Uncle =
Tom=92s Cabin 1903, 1914, 1927=92

	Lisa Stead (University of Exeter, English and Film): =91Magazines =
on screen: the intermedial currency of the women=92s magazine in =
interwar British female film culture=92

	Ben Winters (Open University, Music): =91A History of =
Unobtrusive Music? Aesthetic Debates about Film in Context=92

1:15-2:15 =96 lunch at Magdalen College

2:15-3:20 =96 FACES

	Joe Kember (University of Exeter, English): =91Pulling Faces: =
Traditions of =93Weakly-Expressive=94 Facial Performance in Early and =
Silent Cinema=92

	Jed Wentz (Amsterdam Conservatory, Music and Dance): =91Cinema, =
Facial Expression, and the Theatrical Tradition: Traces of =
Seventeenth-Century Actio in Films by Murnau and 		Wegener=92=


3:35-4:40 =96 MEMORY

	Lawrence Napper (King=92s College London, Film Studies): =
=91Authentic Pictures of the Front: Art, Film and the Reconstruction of =
WWI Experience=92

	Christopher Townsend (Royal Holloway, University of London, =
Film): =91Poetry/Performance/Polemic: The Politics of Remembrance and =
the Intermediality of 'Rel=E2che' (1924)=92

5:00-6:00 =96 KEYNOTE #2 =96 Peter Franklin (University of Oxford, =
Music): =91The threatening audience: from distant sound to A Night At =
The Opera=92

6:00-6:30 - closing reception





Dr Adeline Mueller
Weston Junior Research Fellow in Music
New College, Oxford=20
OX1 3BN
[email protected]

New College is a Registered Charity (No. 1142701).=20
'New College Oxford' is a registered trade mark - =AENo. 2588652.

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