[Commlist] French Screen Comedy Study Day - Programme and Registration

The provisional programme and registration details for 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 at the University of Warwick on Saturday 
14^th  October are now available here 
<https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/news/events/french_screen_studies/> (and 
programme duplicated below).


This is a free event but please register*_by Wednesday 4^th  October_*to 
enable planning.


_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/>



*/_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) *

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 Perampalan*(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 further refreshments

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