The University of Hull from
11-13 October 2002
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:
Friday 11 October
14:30 - 17:30 Registration
17:30 - 17:50: Reception
17:50 - 18:00: Welcome and Introductions
18:00 – 19:00:
Guest Lecture,
Professor Reynold Humphries, University of Lille.
"Fantasy, femininity and family secrets: the politics of representation in early Mario Bava".
19:00 - 22:00: Conference Dinner
Transfer to UGC Cinemas (Hull)
23:00 – 01:00:
Public Screening: Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002)
Saturday 12 October
9:15-10:45
Panel 1: Screening the Horror Series
CHAIR: Dr Matt Hills
Paper 1: Ian Conrich, University of Surrey, Roehampton.
“The Friday the 13th Films and the cultural function of a modern Grand Guignol”
Paper 2: Peter Hutchings, Northumbria University.
“Scrolls of Life: Universal's Mummy Films”
Paper 3: Simon Wilkinson, University of Hull
“Life and Death After Hitchcock: Bates, Bloch and the Horror Franchise”
11:00-12:30
Panel 2: Interpreting Auteurs
CHAIR: Peter Hutchings, University of Northumbria
Paper 1: Franc Lafond, University of Lille.
“The Cinematic Art of Jacques Tourneur”
Paper 2: Linnie Blake, Manchester Metropolitan University.
“Another One For the Fire: George A. Romero's American Theology of the Flesh”
Paper 3: Cathy Gelbin, University of Manchester.
“The Evocation of Holocaust Imagery in Hitchcock's Psycho”
12:30-13:15 Buffet Lunch:
13:15-14:45
Panel 3: Audience and Reception
CHAIR: Dr Mark Jones
Paper 1: Brigid Cherry, St Mary’s College, University of Surrey.
“ A Particular Fondness: A Model of the Female Horror Film Audience”
Paper 2: Matt Hills, Cardiff University.
“Consuming Horror's Special Effects: Audience Effects and Doubled Attention”
Paper 3:Yvonne Leffler, Karlstad University, Sweden.
“Horror as Pleasure and as Role Play”
15:00-16:30
Panel 4: American Psychos
CHAIR: Ian Conrich, University of Surrey, Roehampton.
Paper 1: Leighton Grist, King Alfred’s College, Winchester
“The Nightmare Continues - The Persecuted Yuppie Cycle”
Paper 2: David Eldridge, University of Hull.
“The Generic American Psycho”
Paper 3: Steven Schneider, Harvard University
“The Madwomen in Our Movies”
16:45 - 17:45
Guest Lecture by
Professor Richard Dyer,
University of Warwick:
Killing for the Family; The Italian Horror Film
Transfer to UGC Cinemas, Hull
19: 40 – 21:00
Screening: The Bride of Frankenstein
(James Whale, 1935)
Introduced by:
Peter Hutchings
21:15 – 23: 00
Screening: Psycho
(Gus Van Sant, 1998)
Introduced by:
Steven Schneider
23:15 – 1:00
Screening: Brain Dead
(Peter Jackson, 1992)
Introduced By:
Xavier Mendik
Sunday 13 October
9:15 – 10:45:
Panel 5: Of European Origins
CHAIR:
Paper 1: Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, University of Nottingham
“This Doesn't Look Like a Spanish Film: La Residencia (1969)”
Paper 2: Stacey Abbott, University of Surrey, Roehampton
“Spectral Vampires: Modern Technology and the Vampire Myth in Cinema”
Paper 3: Paul Wells, Teeside University
“Animated Anxiety: Svankmajer, surrealism and the 'Agit-Scare'”
11: 00 – 12: 45
Panel 6: Dominant Themes of Italian Horror
CHAIR:
Paper 1: Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Polytechnic University
“Visceral Desire: The Fear of the Flesh”
Paper 2: Tamao Nakahara, University of California, Berkeley.
“Horrific Habits: Italian Nunsploitation Films”
Paper 3: Gary Needham, University of Glasgow
“The Giallo; Italian Cinema Par Excellance”
Paper 4: Xavier Mendik, University College, Northampton
“Monstrous Sex: Horror, Eroticism and Cult Constructions of the ‘Other’ in the Black Emanuelle Films”
12: 45 – 13: 30
Buffet Lunch;
13: 30 – 15:00
Panel 7: Horrifying the Academy
CHAIR: Yvonne Leffler (Karlstad University)
Paper 1: Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University College
“Whatever Needs to be Understood; How Theory Finds Itself in Horror”
Paper 2: Mark Jones, University of Wolverhampton
“Theory / Fear-y: Knowing Horror”
Paper 3: Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University
“Becoming Animal, Becoming Woman, Becoming Monster: Deleuze and the Aesthetics of Horror”
15:15 – 16: 45:
Panel 5: British Traditions
CHAIR: Dr Brigid Cherry
Paper 1: Shaun Kimber, King Alfred’s College.
“Including the Excluded: The Views of Genre Fans on the Regulatory Censorship of Film Violence in Britain”
Paper 2: Dave Rolinson, University of Hull.
“The Decaying Victor: Fifties Britain and The Quatermass Experiment”
Paper 3: Ian Hunter, De Montfort University.
“Norman J. Warren’s Terror: A British Suspiria?”
17: 00 – 17:45:
Closing Speaker:
Neil Sinyard (University of Hull)
“Horror/Comic: Some reflections on Horror comedy and Richard Lester's
'The Bed Sitting Room (1969)”
