2006 Screen Studies Conference
Screen Studies Conference 2006organised by Screen journal
University of Glasgow
Scotland
30 June - 2 July 2006
Thank you to all who participated in the 16th annual Screen Conference. We hope to see you next year.
Screen Studies Conference 30 June - 2 July 2006
FRIDAY 30 JUNE
15.00 - 16.30
Workshop on AHRC funding (led by John Caughie)
17.00 - 18.30
Opening plenary (1)
CWLT Television aesthetics: after film theory
John Ellis - Royal Holloway, University of London
John Caughie - University of Glasgow
Christine Geraghty - University of Glasgow (tbc)
Followed by reception in Gilmorehill theatre and optional dinner at Stravaigin restaurant
SATURDAY 1 JULY
9.00 - 10.30
217a Women and post-war British film culture
Melanie Bell-Williams - University of Newcastle
Sweet Ninnies and Vamps: Patricia Roc, Greta Gynt and post-war British
stardom
Melanie Williams - University of Hull
'The poor soul walking in the rain': audience memories of a desperate
housewife in Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957)
Karen Shearsmith - De Montfort University, Leicester
Fecundity, post-natal depression, abortion, sterilization - the joys of
motherhood in the Pumpkin Eater (1964)
217b The Televisual Home Made Over
Misha Kavka - University of Auckland
Changing properties, changing countries
Amy West- University of Auckland
Personal Property: intimate access in reality television
Jo T. Smith - University of Auckland
Indigenous DIY: the Maori makeover
408 The Contemporary Bio-pic and the (Troublesome) Figure of the Woman
Writer
Josephine Dolan -University of the West of England, Bristol
The Hours (2002) and the disintegration of masculinity
Suzy Gordon - University of the West of England, Bristol
Anxious Times: Ted and Sylvia revisited
Estella Tincknell - University of the West of England, Bristol
Iris (2001) and the impossibility of female authorship
CW1 Place and space in British film and television
Charlotte Brunsdon - University of Warwick
Going up West: London in the cinema
Paul Newland - University of Exeter
Global markets and a market place: reading BBC television’s Eastenders
as the anti docklands
Mark Broughton - Birkbeck College, University of London
Landscape versus Science and the Law: The Box of Delights (BBC, 1984)
CW2 The DVD as research object: questions of narrative, authorship and
practice
Lynda Dyson (Middlesex University) & Janet Harbord (Goldsmiths College)
Inconsolable Things: Agnes Varda and the im/materiality of film
Mike Chopra-Gant - London Metropolitan University
‘Un-putdownable’ television: narrative structure, character and the
'addictive' text
Catherine Grant - University of Kent
The autograph function: Tarantino's television 'moments'
11.00 - 12.30
217a Telestories: narrative and aesthetic practices in televisualisation
Alexandra Simcock - Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University
The loser fights back: strategies and narrative conventions of American TV
movies
Leon Gurevich - Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University
It's not the resolution, it's what you do with it: the electronic image and
movie aesthetics beyond film
Suman Ghosh – Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University
Television news as narrative
217b Historical struggle/the struggle for history: documents, witnesses, theories
Peter Thomas - University of Sunderland
Chronologies, databases and documents: historiography and the qualities
of the evidential base
Julia Knight - University of Sunderland
Albany Video Distribution: the problem of dealing with a 'partial' history
Geoffrey Nowell-Smith - Queen Mary, University of London
In the thick of it
408 Authentic and authenticating bodies in contemporary television
Karen Boyle - University of Glasgow
Authenticity and abjection in cosmetic surgery reality shows
Elke Weissmann - University of Glasgow
The victims of crime in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Fran Pheasant-Kelly - University of Wolverhampton
Aesthetics and abjection in the ER
409 Transnational cinemas
Iain Smith - University of Nottingham
Appropriating America: The case of the Turkish Star Trek film
Ruby Cheung - University of St. Andrews
Forever Journeying: Interstitiality in Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild
(1990)
Min Lee - University of Warwick
East Asian films in France and Britain: Tartan's Asia Extreme and the
French Cinéphilia distributors
CW1 Psychoanalysis and cinema: new approaches
Lynsey Russell-Watts - University of Nottingham
Masochistic Therapy: Resistance, Psychoanalysis, and the Painful
Pleasures of Spectatorship
Annette Kuhn - Lancaster University
'Home is where we start from': a case study in cultural memory and
transitional space
Richard Rushton - Lancaster University
Film interpretation and the role of the critic: a psychoanalytic perspective
CW2 Zeitgeist drama: critical approaches to contemporary American serial
television
Karen Randell - Southampton Solent University
Lost and Found: psychoanalysis and trauma television
Claire Hines - Southampton Solent University
Must-See Pink TV: The L Word and Queer Mainstream Drama
Jacqueline Furby - Southampton Solent University
Interesting Times: the demands 24's real time format makes on its
audience
Steven Peacock - Southampton Solent University
Deadwood and the union: considering principles of value in narrative
film and television drama
13.30 - 15.00
217a TV aesthetics: new screens
Lanfranco Aceti - Slade School of Fine Art
Television aesthetics: an old medium and a thousand new screens
Julia Sussner - University of Cambridge
Screen language as design template: refashioning narrative for interactive
film over broadband
Damian Sutton - Glasgow School of Art
Lifelines on the screen
217b Thinking about film: engaging theory
Kate Ince - University of Birmingham
What future for 'screen' theory? A response to Murray Smith's Engaging
Characters, concerning identification and the ethics and politics of
spectatorship
E. Anna Claydon – University of Leicester
Mindworks: getting inside heads in fiction film
Emma Radley – University College Dublin
Theory foreclosed: the real of contemporary spectatorship
408 Screen aesthetics: future TV and animation
Max Dawson - Northwestern University
Television’s new small(er) screen aesthetics
Suzanne Buchan - Animation Research Centre, University College for the
Creative Arts
Endearing avatars, hapless blobs. Spectator empathy and emotion in
animation
Kim Walden - University of Hertfordshire
Mobile cinema: an exploration of first generation film made for the 'fourth
screen'
409 Documentary and history
Erwin Erhardt - Thomas More College
Saving our future: "setting straight" the Children of the City (1944) for a
better post-war world
Bella Honess Roe - University of Southern California
Outskirts of the past: (de)constructing history in the documentaries of two
British filmmaking collectives
CW1 Revisiting 1950s British television: studies in programme culture
Su Holmes - University of Kent
'A valuable contribution, not only to television, but to the entertainment
world!': the BBC, The Grove Family, and the negotiation of popular appeal
Rachel Moseley - University of Warwick
Reconstructing early television for women in Britain: Marguerite Patten,
television cookery and the production of domestic femininity
Helen Wheatley, University of Warwick
Colonial spectacle, domestic space: natural history television in the 1950s
CW2 The struggle for television aesthetics
Veronica Innocenti - University of Bologna
The presence and influence of television in Italian cinema of the 60s and
70s
Elizabeth-Marie Tuson - University of Portsmouth
Eileen Diss to Assheton Gorton: television aesthetics
Mats Bjorkin - Gothenburg University
Television aesthetics and commercial media in Sweden during the 1950s
Keith M. Johnston - University of Kent
"The Rival Screen": The search for aesthetics in early British television
trailers
15.30 - 16.45
217a How real is real?: reality TV and its hybrids
Amber Watts - Northwestern University
Schadenfreude’s "Money Shot": making reality painfully real
Lisa Williamson - University of Glasgow
'It's not network sitcom. It's HBO'
Nigel Mather - previously at the University of Kent
"Sometimes the truth ain't kind" (Pete Burns): Celebrity Big Brother 2006 -
point of view, perspective and the problems of revealing one's inner self to
the public
217b Early TV aesthetics
Emma Sandon - Birkbeck College, the University of London
The aesthetics of entertainment in early television in Britain
Mary Irwin - Glasgow Caledonian University
Monitor- the invention of the television arts documentary aesthetic
Meredith Ward - Northwestern University
"How to Go Places": 50s television commercials and the middle-class
mapping of America
408 Queer TV (1): television and sexual dissidence
Gary Needham - Nottingham Trent University
The queerness of Australian TV
Michelle Aaron - University of Birmingham
New Queer Cable? The L Word, the small screen and the bigger picture
Glyn Davis - University of Bristol
"I’m Telling You Now": queerness and sound in Six Feet Under
409 Re-reading star performances
Robert Miklitsch - Ohio University
The Noir/Musical: Gene Kelly, Cover Girl, and the Pierrot Noir
Hilaria Loyo - University of Zaragoza
Making blinding blondes legal: whiteness and femininity in the comedies of
the post-feminist era
CW1 The moral policing of cinema
Ruth Vasey - Flinders University
Children and the movies, 1924: the public relations of Saturday morning
matinees
Richard Maltby - Flinders University
The cinema as "American Room": a critique of "soft power"
Nandana Bose - University of Nottingham
The moral policing of Hindi cinema in contemporary India
CW2 British cinema
Stella Hockenhull - University of Wolverhampton
Neo-Romantic landscapes: aesthetic approaches to the 1940s films of
Powell and Pressburger
Henry K. Miller - Birkbeck College, the University of London
A mirror to darkness: the cinema of J. Maclaren-Ross
Jim Ellis - University of Calgary
Humphrey Jennings, Derek Jarman, and the tense of national belonging
16.45 - 18.00
Plenary (2)
CWLT Evaluating television aesthetics
John Corner - University of Liverpool
Cathy Johnson - Royal Holloway, the University of London
Followed by a civic reception in Glasgow City Chambers
SUNDAY 2 JULY
9.30 - 11.00
217a Signifying horror: seen but not heard?
Alison Peirse - Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University
The masculine 'body-in-pieces': male victimisation and classic horror film
Stan Link - Vanderbilt University
Worlds unmade: cinematic contemplations of silence and death
Andre Loiselle - Carleton University
The performance of villainy: notes towards a theory of theatricality in the
horror film
217b Queer TV (2): how was it for you?
Sarah P. Gamble - University of Edinburgh
Seeing and knowing: the aesthetics of sexuality in Will and Grace
Christopher Pullen - Bournemouth University
Television's 'necessary fictions': Queer as Folk, The L Word and the
imagined gay community
R. Gabriel Dor - Northwestern University
The Lavender brand: queer cable programming and quality television
aesthetics
408 Spectatorship, mobility and television
Sheila Chalke - Birkbeck College, University of London
Early home cinema: domestic spectatorship as a precursor of audience
reception and experience
Daniel Chamberlain - University of Southern California
Interface aesthetics: the primacy of televisual non-places
Nanna Verhoeff - Institute for Media and Re/Presentation at Utrecht
University
Mobile screens: launching new media as means for virtual travel
(1900-2000)
409 Producing film and television
Paul Kerr
Cowboys and Indies: the aesthetic impact of independent production
Christopher Meir - University of Warwick
Scottish cinema in documents: the film funding application as research
resource
CW1 Narrative and American Television Drama
Angela Ndalianis - University of Melbourne
Embracing the Aleph: Smallville and hypertime
Máire Messenger Davies - Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
Industrialised storytelling
Mark Gallagher - University of Nottingham
Crossing K Street: Soderbergh’s parafictional television
Roberta Pearson - University of Nottingham
American television drama: narrative forms, characters, narrative pleasures
and industrial constraints
CW2 Adaptations and Generations
Sadie Wearing - Gender Institute, the London School of Economics and
Political Science
Adapting age: representing generations in Iris (2001)
Shelley Cobb - University of East Anglia
Feminist foremother/postfeminist daughter: Virginia Woolf, Sally Potter,
and the fidelity of Orlando
Lawrence Napper - University of East Anglia
Generations of Bleak House
11.30 - 13.00
217a Spook TV: uncanny aesthetics
Heather Nunn & Anita Biressi - Roehampton University
Sea of Souls: televisual fantasies of cultural/psychic dislocation
Robert Dunks - University of California, Riverside
"I read somewhere that every person in your dream is actually you": the
politics of displaced subjectivity and doubling in Six Feet Under
Mikel Koven - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
The Ghost on the Box: Most Haunted as Legend Matrix
217b Approaches to European film
Firoza Elavia - York University, Toronto
Drifting at time's edge: Claire Denis' L'Intrus (2004)
Martin O’Shaughnessy - Nottingham Trent University
Being with the other: the ethical cinema of the Dardenne brothers
Matilde Nardelli - University College London
Cinematic Reflections on Sound Recording: La Notte, La Dolce Vita, The
Passenger
408 Before and after: the star system
Robin Larsen - California State University San Bernardino
Displacing a national crisis in elite masculine identity by redressing
Clara Bow's romantic comedies
Paul McDonald - University of Surrey, Roehampton
The post-studio Hollywood star system
409 Performing history on television
Amy Holdsworth - University of Warwick
Moving pictures: family history, memory and photography in Who Do You
Think You Are? and Not Forgotten
Iris Kleinecke - University of Warwick
Between heritage and medium: The Victorian Kitchen Garden, factual
history programming and the representation of the Victorian Age
CW1 TV's everyday meaning: pleasure and politics
Glen Creeber - University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Bleak Times?: the political and moral aesthetics of contemporary social
realism
Herbert Schwaab - Ruhr University, Bochum
'Everything passes and nothing is lost' - Stanley Cavell and the
ordinariness of popular television texts
James Bennett - London Metropolitan University
The television personality after film theory: pleasure and meaning in
performance
CW2 Radical TV drama
Lez Cooke - Manchester Metropolitan University
Three Ring Circus - the Ur-text of modernist television drama
Mark Bartlett
The political-aesthetics of expanded-TV: Stan Vanderbeek's Violence
Sonata, WGBH, Boston, 1970
14.00 - 15.30
Closing plenary (3)
CWLT John Caldwell - University of California, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Sconce - Northwestern University
Lynn Spigel - Northwestern University