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University of ÌÇÐÄTV, Department of Film and Television Studies

DEPARTMENT RESEARCH DAY

Wednesday 17 May 2017, MS.O5, Ground Floor Zeeman Building

9.30-9.35 Opening Remarks: Alastair Phillips

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9:35 – 10:30 Keynote (Chair: Stephen Gundle)

Michele Aaron (University of Birmingham), ‘Love’s Revival: Film Practice and the Act of Dying’

10:30 – 11:45 Session 1: Music, Memory and Gender (Chair: Rachel Moseley)

• Leanne Weston, ‘Memory and Materiality in Music Television’

• Julie Lobalzo-Wright, ‘Easy Come, Easy Go: Elvis Presley’s Musical Films’

• Georgia Mulligan, ‘“Why Will All Women Cry at The Umbrellas of Cherbourg?”: Genre, Cultural Value and the Gendered Audience in the Contemporary Reception of Jacques Demy’s The Umbrellas of Cherbourg’

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11.45 - 11.55 BREAK

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11:55 – 1:10 Session 2: Media Images of Cinema and Television (Chair: Alastair Phillips)

• Claire Jesson, ‘Experiencing the Difference: Film Exhibition as Represented in Cinemas' Promotional Trailers’

• Josette Wolthuis, ‘Serial Costuming: Character, Narrative and Professional Dress in Television’

• Silvia Magistrali, ‘Cinema and the Illustrated Press in Postwar Italy’

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1:10 – 2:00 LUNCH

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2:00 – 2:50 Session 3: Emotion, Empathy, and Dreaming in Cinema (Chair: Julie Lobalzo-Wright)

• Stuart Mitchell, ‘The Devil is in the Moral Emotional Detail’

• Zoë Shacklock, ‘“You Are No Longer Just You”: The Promise of Kinaesthetic Empathy in Sense8 and Hannibal’

• Helen Palmer, ‘Exploring the Lead Character's Transition from a Waking State into a Dream State within Oklahoma!'s Dream Ballet’

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2:55– 4:30 Session 4: Screen Worlds / World Screens (Chair: Karl Schoonover)

• Esther Douglas, ‘The African-American body in the cinematic city of Los Angeles’

• Jamie Zhao, ‘Globally Formatted Queer TV with Chinese Characteristics in the New Millennium’

• Tiago de Luca, ‘Envisioning the World: Film, Media Culture, and the Earth’

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4.30 TEA AND CAKE

PhD candidate Alessandara Tafaro will be giving her paper on "CLE Britanniae: Literary Echoes in the Epigraphic Context of Roman Britain"