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‘Viewer, I married him’: Reading (Re)Productions of the Long Nineteenth Century in Period Drama
Conference CFP 29 June, 2012 Derwent Building, University of Hull Registration is now open for the Reading Reproductions Conference on Friday 29^th June 2012 at the University of Hull. Delegates from all fields are welcome to the event, which aims to acknowledge and assess the continuing importance of period drama in contemporary culture across the world. Dr. Sarah Cardwell from the University of Kent will give the keynote address, ‘From adaptations to period dramas: genre, style and critical evaluation’, and Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC, will lead a postgraduate training session focussed on career development and adapting to an academic career. A range of post-graduate and academic speakers will be presenting at the event, which is supported by BAVS. An early bird registration fee of £25 for students, £35 for academics is available until Monday 30^th April. Late registration priced at £35 for students, £45 for academics closes Friday 15^th June. The registration form is downloadable from our website: http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/graduateschool/reading_reproductions_conferen.aspx The following is a draft programme and is subject to change. Please note, rooms and Chairs are yet to be allocated. If you are interested in chairing a panel at the event, please send your request by email to readingreproductions@gmail.com Conference Program 8.30 – 9.15 Registration 9.15 – 9.30 Opening Address 9.30 – 10.45 Keynote Lecture - Dr. Sarah Cardwell, University of Kent ‘From adaptations to period dramas: genre, style and critical evaluation’ 10.45 – 11.15 Refreshment Break 11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1A: Adapting Classics Verena von Eicken, University of York ‘“You are the last men in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry!” – Postfeminism and Gender Images in Pride and Prejudice (2005)’ Liz Mills, Independent Scholar ‘When an Adaptation Appears More Like an Adaptation: Viewing North and South as a Victorian Pride and Prejudice’ Florence Bigo-Renault, Université Paris Diderot ‘Apocryphal Dickens’ 11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1B: Contemporary Re-imaginings Catherine Han, University of Hull ‘Adapting Interdisciplinary Analogies: Rethinking Bortolotti and Hutcheon’s “Rethinking” (2007) and Angels & Insects (dir. Philip Hass, 1996)’ Dr Sarah Edwards, University of Strathclyde ‘Downton Abbey 1912: Heritage Television, Official History and Marriage’ Nicola Beech, University of Hull ‘Downton Abbeyoncé: Period Dramas made Meme-ingful’ 12.45 – 1.45 Lunch 1.45 – 3.15 Panel 2A: Cultural Hybridities Rita Singer, Universität Leipzig ‘Visualizing Hiraeth: Desire in Anthony Hokpins’s August (1996)’ Fern Pullan, Leeds Metropolitan University ‘Books to Bollywood: Dissolving Myths and Power Structures in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice’ Marianna D’Ezio, University of Rome ‘Italian TV Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights’ 1.45 – 3.15 Panel 2B: Lady Parts: Women’s Roles in Victorian Adaptations Jo Taylor, Keele University ‘Stitching and Scribbling: Fanny Burney as Poetess in Jane Campion’s Bright Star’ Carmen Perez Riu, Universidad de Oviedo ‘Visual Narration and the Victorian Woman Artist as Focalizer’ Rose McCormack, Aberystwyth University ‘Making Sense and Creating Sensibility: Exploring the Bedroom Sequence in Film and Television Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Novels’ 3.15 – 4.45 Panel 3A: Sherlock on Screen: Detecting Drama Daný van Dam, Leiden University ‘Sherlock’s London: Taking the Victorian into the Twenty-First Century City’ Ellie Cope, University of Hull ‘(Re)Imagining Deduction: Visualising the Detective Mind in BBC’s Sherlock’ Tom Ue, University College London ‘Narrative Technique in Sherlock’ 3.15 – 4.45 Panel 3B: Disturbing Drama, Fearful Frames Graeme Pedlingham, University of Sussex ‘“May I Give You This? I Think It Should Be Yours”: Adaptation, Reception and the Threat of the Object in “Casting the Runes” (1911) and Night of the Demon (1957)’ Matthew Crofts, University of Hull ‘Drac’s Back. Again. And Again. And Then Three More Times: Hammer Horror’s Dracula Series and Keeping the “Gothic” in Gothic Returns’ Derek Johnston, University of Portsmouth ‘A Haunted Season: Seasonality and the Television Gothic’ 4.45 – 5.15 Refreshment Break 5.15 – 6.30 Post-Graduate Training Session by Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC 6.30 – 6.45 Closing Remarks
CFP Keynote Speakers: Dr. Sarah Cardwell, University of Kent: ‘From adaptations to period dramas: genre, style and critical evaluation’ Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC, invited to lead a postgraduate training session focussed on career development and adapting to an academic career. ‘Period drama’, or remediated historical adaptations for television and film have long been established genres which are traditionally associated with fancy costumes, pseudo-Victorian settings, and romance. This conference invites scholars working in the fields of literature, film, history, music, and cultural and media studies to consider the wider historical and cultural impact of the ‘period drama’, ‘costume drama’, or filmic adaptation. Our objective is to promote interaction between nineteenth-century and contemporary scholars in order to examine how and why the literature, history, and culture of Britain from 1800-1914 is (re)produced in a modern international context. By analysing the processes through which these literatures and histories are translated into film, we hope to acknowledge and assess the continuing importance of period drama in contemporary culture across the world. Potential papers might include: · TV series, programmes or films · Direct adaptations of literature (e.g. BBC’s, ITV’s or Roman Polanski’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles) · Modern retellings of nineteenth-century literature (e.g. Clueless) · Adaptations derived from Neo-Victorian texts (e.g. Fingersmith) · Original screen-plays (e.g. Downton Abbey) · Cross-over period dramas (e.g. Lost in Austen) · Biopics (e.g. Becoming Jane) · International adaptations (e.g. Bride and Prejudice) As this conference is interdisciplinary in its approach, we are also looking for papers which consider themes associated with literary and cultural studies (class, gender, sexuality, religion, race) and/or the contemporary production/adaptation process, the modern audience and critical responses, and how period drama and contemporary culture impact on one another. The following topics are suggested, but are by no means limited to: · Company of production (e.g. BBC, ITV) · Costumes, settings, props · Technology, Musical scores · Cinematography · Casting · Screenplays, Performances · Intended audience(s), Critical reviews, audience response, media coverage Since period drama and adaptations serve as popular entertainment, valuable educational resources and are art forms in their own right, we look forward to expanding study on this rich topic by welcoming 300-word abstracts, for 20 minute papers, from postgraduate students, as well as early-career researchers and established academics. To submit abstracts, or for any other queries, please email: readingreproductions@gmail.com Allison Neal, Jenny Pearce, Janine Hatter, and Maura Dunst The Postgraduate Period Drama Conference Team readingreproductions@gmail.com Supported by: The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): http://www.bavs.org/ The University of Hull: http://www.hull.ac.uk/

‘Viewer, I married him’: Reading (Re)Productions of the Long Nineteenth Century in Period Drama

Conference CFP

29 June, 2012

Derwent Building, University of Hull

Registration is now open for the Reading Reproductions Conference on Friday 29^th June 2012 at the University of Hull. Delegates from all fields are welcome to the event, which aims to acknowledge and assess the continuing importance of period drama in contemporary culture across the world.

Dr. Sarah Cardwell from the University of Kent will give the keynote address, ‘From adaptations to period dramas: genre, style and critical evaluation’, and Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC, will lead a postgraduate training session focussed on career development and adapting to an academic career. A range of post-graduate and academic speakers will be presenting at the event, which is supported by BAVS.

An early bird registration fee of £25 for students, £35 for academics is available until Monday 30^th April. Late registration priced at £35 for students, £45 for academics closes Friday 15^th June. The registration form is downloadable from our website:

http://www2.hull.ac.uk/student/graduateschool/reading_reproductions_conferen.aspx

The following is a draft programme and is subject to change. Please note, rooms and Chairs are yet to be allocated. If you are interested in chairing a panel at the event, please send your request by email to readingreproductions@gmail.com

Conference Program

8.30 – 9.15 Registration

9.15 – 9.30 Opening Address

9.30 – 10.45 Keynote Lecture - Dr. Sarah Cardwell, University of Kent

‘From adaptations to period dramas: genre, style and

critical evaluation’

10.45 – 11.15 Refreshment Break

11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1A: Adapting Classics

Verena von Eicken, University of York

‘“You are the last men in the world I could ever be prevailed upon to marry!” – Postfeminism and Gender Images in Pride and Prejudice (2005)’

Liz Mills, Independent Scholar

‘When an Adaptation Appears More Like an Adaptation: Viewing North and South as a Victorian Pride and Prejudice’

Florence Bigo-Renault, Université Paris Diderot

‘Apocryphal Dickens’

11.15 – 12.45 Panel 1B: Contemporary Re-imaginings

Catherine Han, University of Hull

‘Adapting Interdisciplinary Analogies: Rethinking Bortolotti and Hutcheon’s “Rethinking” (2007) and Angels & Insects (dir. Philip Hass, 1996)’

Dr Sarah Edwards, University of Strathclyde

‘Downton Abbey 1912: Heritage Television, Official History and Marriage’

Nicola Beech, University of Hull

‘Downton Abbeyoncé: Period Dramas made Meme-ingful’

12.45 – 1.45 Lunch

1.45 – 3.15 Panel 2A: Cultural Hybridities

Rita Singer, Universität Leipzig

‘Visualizing Hiraeth: Desire in Anthony Hokpins’s August (1996)’

Fern Pullan, Leeds Metropolitan University

‘Books to Bollywood: Dissolving Myths and Power Structures in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice’

Marianna D’Ezio, University of Rome

‘Italian TV Adaptations of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights’

1.45 – 3.15 Panel 2B: Lady Parts: Women’s Roles in Victorian

Adaptations

Jo Taylor, Keele University

‘Stitching and Scribbling: Fanny Burney as Poetess in Jane Campion’s Bright Star’

Carmen Perez Riu, Universidad de Oviedo

‘Visual Narration and the Victorian Woman Artist as Focalizer’

Rose McCormack, Aberystwyth University

‘Making Sense and Creating Sensibility: Exploring the Bedroom Sequence in Film and Television Adaptations of Jane Austen’s Novels’

3.15 – 4.45 Panel 3A: Sherlock on Screen: Detecting Drama

Daný van Dam, Leiden University

‘Sherlock’s London: Taking the Victorian into the Twenty-First Century City’

Ellie Cope, University of Hull

‘(Re)Imagining Deduction: Visualising the Detective Mind in BBC’s Sherlock’

Tom Ue, University College London

‘Narrative Technique in Sherlock’

3.15 – 4.45 Panel 3B: Disturbing Drama, Fearful Frames

Graeme Pedlingham, University of Sussex

‘“May I Give You This? I Think It Should Be Yours”: Adaptation, Reception and the Threat of the Object in “Casting the Runes” (1911) and Night of the Demon (1957)’

Matthew Crofts, University of Hull

‘Drac’s Back. Again. And Again. And Then Three More Times: Hammer Horror’s Dracula Series and Keeping the “Gothic” in Gothic Returns’

Derek Johnston, University of Portsmouth

‘A Haunted Season: Seasonality and the Television Gothic’

4.45 – 5.15 Refreshment Break

5.15 – 6.30 Post-Graduate Training Session by Professor Mark

Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC

6.30 – 6.45 Closing Remarks

CFP

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Sarah Cardwell, University of Kent: ‘From adaptations to period dramas: genre, style and critical evaluation’

Professor Mark Llewellyn, Director of Research for the AHRC, invited to lead a postgraduate training session focussed on career development and adapting to an academic career.

‘Period drama’, or remediated historical adaptations for television and film have long been established genres which are traditionally associated with fancy costumes, pseudo-Victorian settings, and romance. This conference invites scholars working in the fields of literature, film, history, music, and cultural and media studies to consider the wider historical and cultural impact of the ‘period drama’, ‘costume drama’, or filmic adaptation. Our objective is to promote interaction between nineteenth-century and contemporary scholars in order to examine how and why the literature, history, and culture of Britain from 1800-1914 is (re)produced in a modern international context. By analysing the processes through which these literatures and histories are translated into film, we hope to acknowledge and assess the continuing importance of period drama in contemporary culture across the world. Potential papers might include:

· TV series, programmes or films

· Direct adaptations of literature

(e.g. BBC’s, ITV’s or Roman Polanski’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles)

· Modern retellings of nineteenth-century literature (e.g. Clueless)

· Adaptations derived from Neo-Victorian texts (e.g. Fingersmith)

· Original screen-plays (e.g. Downton Abbey)

· Cross-over period dramas (e.g. Lost in Austen)

· Biopics (e.g. Becoming Jane)

· International adaptations (e.g. Bride and Prejudice)

As this conference is interdisciplinary in its approach, we are also looking for papers which consider themes associated with literary and cultural studies (class, gender, sexuality, religion, race) and/or the contemporary production/adaptation process, the modern audience and critical responses, and how period drama and contemporary culture impact on one another. The following topics are suggested, but are by no means limited to:

· Company of production (e.g. BBC, ITV)

· Costumes, settings, props

· Technology, Musical scores

· Cinematography

· Casting

· Screenplays, Performances

· Intended audience(s), Critical reviews, audience response,

media coverage

Since period drama and adaptations serve as popular entertainment, valuable educational resources and are art forms in their own right, we look forward to expanding study on this rich topic by welcoming 300-word abstracts, for 20 minute papers, from postgraduate students, as well as early-career researchers and established academics. To submit abstracts, or for any other queries, please email: readingreproductions@gmail.com

Allison Neal, Jenny Pearce, Janine Hatter, and Maura Dunst

The Postgraduate Period Drama Conference Team

readingreproductions@gmail.com

Supported by:

The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): http://www.bavs.org/

The University of Hull: http://www.hull.ac.uk/ BAVS

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