[eccr] Historical Adventures

>Below is the provisional program for the Historical Adventures Study Day run
>by postgraduates at the School of Film and Television Studies, University of
>East Anglia
>
>ADMISSION IS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL FACULTY, POSTGRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE
>STUDENTS
>If you wish to attend contact (james.russell /at/ uea.ac.uk)
>
>More information can be found at the website including directions on how to
>get to UEA: http://www.helsinki.fi/~hkilpi/UEA/index.htm
>
>PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
>All events at Elizabeth Fry Building, room 1.01
>
>I Session, 9.00 - 10.45
>Historical Epics
>
>James Russell: Retelling the Epic: Gladiator (2000) and the Revival of the
>Historical Epic Film
>
>James Caterer: History and Narrative in Gladiator (2000)
>
>Vincent Gaine: Existential Hero / Emergent Nation: Last of the Mohicans
>(1992), Existentialism and America
>
>Jonathan Stubbs: Captain Horatio Hornblower RN (1951) and Hollywood Runaway
>Productions
>
>Coffee Break, 30 min
>
>II Session, 11.15 - 13.00
>History, Fantasy and Masculinity
>
>Sarah Godfrey: Representations of Recent History in British Film: The
>Ratcatcher (1999) and East Is East (1999)
>
>Hannah Hamad: Masculinity and Stardom in Road to Perdition (2002)
>
>Lorcan McGrane: Superhero Narratives as Alternative History: Superman,
>Wonder Woman and World War II
>
>Kristian Moen: Fantasy and History in Thief of Baghdad (1940)
>
>Lunch Break, 60 min
>
>Plenary, 14.00 - 15.00
>
>(to be arranged)
>
>Coffee Break, 30 min
>
>III Session, 15.30 - 16.45
>National and International Histories
>
>Pietari Kääpä: The Limited Scope of the National Village: Representations of
>the National Past in the Cinema of Markku Pölönen
>
>Pierluigi Ercole: Distributing the Peplum Film in Pre-WWI Britain
>
>Harri Kilpi: Histoires Braudelliennes: Reflections on Methodological
>Tripartition in the Analysis of Historical Adventure Films
>
>Break, 30 min
>
>IV Session, 17.15 - 18.30
>Taste Distinctions in Historical Entertainment
>
>Lawrence Napper: History, Media and the Middlebrow in Interwar Britain
>
>Mark Jancovich: 'Charlton Heston is an Axiom': Spectacle and Performance in
>the Development of the Blockbuster
>
>Peter Krämer: The Decline of the Family Roadshows: Historical Epics,
>Musicals and American Film Culture, 1967 - 1976
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Prof. Mark Jancovich
>2.45 Arts Building
>Film and Television Studies
>University of East Anglia,
>Norwich, NR4 7TJ,
>United Kingdom.
>
>Tel: 01603 592787
>Email: (m.jancovich /at/ uea.ac.uk)
>
>
>
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