[ecrea] Conference: 1960s British Cinema: Histories and Legacies conference, BFI Southbank

  *British Cinema in the 1960s: Histories and Legacies*


      6 – 7 September 2017


      NFT3, BFI Southbank, London


      With guest speakers Richard Lester, Sandy Lieberson, David Puttnam
      and Rita Tushingham

This two-day conference will explore one of the most dynamic decades of 
British cinema history. Organised by the AHRC-funded project 
‘Transformation and Tradition in Sixties British Cinema’ run by the 
Universities of York and East Anglia, the event will bring together 
academic researchers and creative practitioners with personal experience 
of the period to discuss how we construct histories of the era’s cinema 
and how might we understand its legacies.

Register online here 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1960s-british-cinema-histories-and-legacies-tickets-35119060054?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=new_event_email&utm_term=viewmyevent_button>.

Cost: £11 per day, £22 for both days

*_Provisional programme: _**__*

*Wednesday 6 September, BFI Southbank, NFT 3 *

9.00-9.30          Registration

9.30-9.45          Welcome from the project team

9.45-11.30        Panel 1: The Eastmancolor Revolution

  * Sarah Street, (University of Bristol), ‘The Colour of Social Realism’
  * Paul Frith (University of East Anglia), ‘Censorship and Colour in
    Hammer films, 1957-62’
  * Keith M. Johnson (University of East Anglia), ‘Selling ‘Eastman
    Colour’ in the 1960s’
  * Carolyn Rickards (University of Bristol), ‘The Rise (and Fall) of
    the Colourful Corporate Fantasy

11.30-12.00        Coffee Break

12.00-13.00        Interview 1: In conversation with David Puttnam and 
Sandy Lieberson

13.00-14.00        Lunch (Guests to make own arrangements)

14.00-15.30        Panel 2: New takes on the New Wave

  * Andrew Spicer (University of the West of England), ‘Male Stardom in
    the 1960s’
  * Clive Nwonka (London School of Economics), ‘Reconsidering /Flame in
    the Streets/’
  * Sian Barber (University of Belfast), ‘1960s British film on Irish
    television: Fragments from the RTÉ archive’

15.30-16.00        Coffee Break

16.00-17.30        Panel 3: Archival investigations into creative 
practitioners

  * Justin Smith (De Montfort University), ‘London Calling: Peter Medak,
    /Negatives /(1968) and the New-Wave émigré in 1960s British cinema’
  * Sue Vice and David Forrest (University of Sheffield), ‘Kes: from
    page to screen’
  * Victoria Lowe (University of Manchester), ‘/If/ (1968)……:
    Collaborative practice in 1960s British cinema’

17.30                   Close

*Thursday 7 September, BFI Southbank, NFT 3*

9.00-9.30            Registration

9.30-11.00          Panel 4: Gender, race, and generation: questions of 
identity

  * Margherita Sprio (University of Westminster), ‘Women in the
    Frame–Ken Loach’s /Poor Cow/ (1967) Re-Visited’
  * Phillip Drummond (New York University in London), ‘Narratives of
    Race and Identity in British Cinema of the 1960s’
  * Robert Shail (Leeds Beckett University), ‘Mapping Children’s Cinema
    in a Decade of Change: The Children’s Film Foundation in the 1960s’

11.00-11.30         Coffee Break

11.30-12.30         Interview 2: In conversation with Rita Tushingham

12.30-13.30         Lunch (Guests to make own arrangements)

13.30-15.00         Panel 5: Memories of cinema-going

  * Matthew Jones (De Montfort University), ‘Provincial permissiveness?
    Rural cinema audiences in 1960s Britain’
  * Emma Pett (University of East Anglia), ‘Women’s cinema-going
    experiences in 1960s Britain’
  * Melvyn Stokes (University College London), ‘“Swinging Sixties”?
    Connecting memories of sex and cinema-going in Britain’

15.00-15.30         Coffee Break

15.30-17.00         Panel 6: Reputations and legacies

  * Steve Hawley (Manchester School of Art), ‘Sex up North. Viewing
    /Morgan/ through /The Family Way/’
  * Charles Drazin (Queen Mary, University of London), ‘/If/… after/If/’
  * Steve Chibnall (De Montfort University), ‘/Can-Can for Tonite/:
    Selecting unseen footage from Peter Whitehead’s 1960s classic for
    Blu-ray release’

17.00-17.15         Comfort break

17.15-18.15         Interview 3: In conversation with Richard Lester

18.15                     Close

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