[Commlist] French Screen Comedy Study Day

A reminder to please register here 
<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/events/french_screen_studies/>by 
_*Wednesday 4**^th  October*_ if you are interested in the free the 
Study Day 'Screen Comedy from the Coming of Sound to the SVOD era' 
organised by/French Screen Studies/with the generous support of the 
BAFTSS French and Francophone Cinema SIG and the School of Modern 
Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick on Saturday 14^th 
 October. Programme details are in the link and below.



_Travel and Accommodation_

Warwick is a campus university about 4 miles from Coventry. There are 
regular trains every half-hour taking not much more than an hour between 
London Euston and Coventry, then either a taxi (c. 15 minute drive, c. 
£14) or a bus (assume 30-35 minutes depending on bus [12X is faster 
though]: seeTravel Directions to the University (warwick.ac.uk) 
<https://warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/directions/>While the day is 
anticipated to last not longer than 10am-6pm to facilitate day-trips, 
there are also  accommodation options available at Warwick Conference 
accommodation for all budgets (warwick.ac.uk) 
<https://warwick.ac.uk/services/conferences/spaces/bedrooms/>



We hope to see you there.

Best regards,

Mary Harrod and Ginette Vincendeau.

Co-Chief General Editors

French Screen Studies | Taylor & Francis Online (tandfonline.com) 
<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rsfc21>



*/_French Screen Studies_/**_and BAFTSS French and Francophone Cinema 
SIG Study Day _*

*_Screen Comedy from the Coming of Sound to the SVOD era _*

**

*Saturday 14 October 2023, University of Warwick, UK *

*(room details to follow on event page) *

10-10.20 – Registration and coffee

10.20 – Opening Remarks

10.30-11.30

_Panel 1 – Male comic stardom in classical French cinema _

Chair: Alastair Phillips

*Ginette Vincendeau *(King’s College London)**

Heroic ineptitude: the Bourvil/de Funès pairing, from /La Traversée de 
Paris/ to /La Grande vadrouille/

*Marion Hallet *(University of Namur)**

Louis de Funès and the/Gendarme/ franchise: the most popular anti-hero 
of French comedy

11.35-12.30

*Keynote**: Raphaëlle Moine *(Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)**

Les comédies du grand âge : un contre-discours sur le vieillissement et 
la dépendance ?

12.30-1.30 – lunch

**

1.30-3

_Panel 2 – Satire, dark humour and parody in postclassical film and 
television _

Chair Raphaëlle Moine

*Adrien Valgalier*(Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)

Tonalité libertaire, marginalité feinte et formules comiques éculées : 
les ambiguïtés artistiques et économiques de la troupe du Splendid dans 
le cinéma comique français

*Meera Perampalam *(Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)**

Parodies contemporaines: le rire contagieux

*Alexandre Moussa *(Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)**

Les films de /has been/ : comédies de la ringardise et drames du 
vieillissement

3-3.30 Tea/coffee break



3.30-5

_Panel 3 – Gender, Ethnicity and (De-)Marginalisation _

Chair Mary Harrod

*Matthew Bruce *(University of Birmingham)**

The ‘Anachronistic’ Hero: Gender and Sexuality in the OSS 117 Films

*Eneko Bidegain (*Mondragon Unibertsitatea) *& Jon Mentxakatorre (*Udako 
Euskal Unibertsitatea)**

Inter-ethnic humor and stereotypes of Basque people in /Mission Pays 
Basque /

*Ewelina Pepiak *(University of Giessen)**

‘Oh, mais c’est de l’humouuur !’ Race and humour in the 21^st -century 
multicultural comedy

5-5.30- Closing Discussion - followed by wine reception


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