Programme

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Morning

9.00-9.30

 

Arrival and signing in;
Welcome message from conference organisers (Mathias Hall Foyer)

9.30-10:30

Keynote speaker: Dr. Melissa Kagen of Bangor University (Mathias Hall)

10.30-10.50

Break (Refreshments in Mathias Hall Foyer)

10.50-11.50

 

Panel 1 (Mathias Hall)

Kate Stuart: Bangor University
Fantasy Over Fidelity: Examining the Harry Potter adaptations as genre films

Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz: National University of Ireland, Galway
A Brief Investigation of Punk Cinema through Queer Perspectives

Panel 2 (Roberts Room)

Ben Pinsent: University of East Anglia
Making Monsters: Examining the Way Fans Interact with Special Effects YouTuber Will McDaniel

Megan Rainbird: Bangor University
From Disneyland to Duloc: Shrek, Disney, and Hyperrealism

11.50 - 1.00 Lunch - participants will need to make their own arrangements - lunch will not be provided

Afternoon

1.00 - 2.00

Panel 3 (Mathias Hall)

Siiri Sjöstrand: University of York

“Next Level Fierce”: Competing for Selfhood on America’s Next Top Model

Jorge Pérez Iglesias: Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Who's the boss?: The fan appropriates academicist discourse and legitimises low culture

Panel 4 (Roberts Room)

Xin Cui: University of Liverpool

Post film-viewing activity: film fans as pilgrims in a film-related tour

Eoin Murray: Bangor University

To Be Bound is to Be Free: A Manipulative Utopia

2.00-3.00

 

Panel 5 (Mathias Hall)

Sean Alexander : Bangor University
Show the Unshowable, Speak the Unspeakable: Cronenberg and the Video Nasty

Elena Castillo Ramirez: Bangor University
Feminine, sexual and family imaginaries in Spain through its TV series

Panel 6 (Roberts Room)

Harry Perry: Bangor University
Raise 'low' culture, demean 'high' - The case for realigning cultural hierarchies within academic musical practice

Henry Morgan: Cardiff University
Hypergrunge and the boy with the melting face: authorship, horror and fragments of identity surrounding Daniel Lopatin’s Garden of Delete

3.00-3.20

Break (Refreshments in Mathias Hall Foyer)

3.20-4.20

Panel 7 (Mathias Hall)

Isabella Macleod: King’s College London
Identifying the importance of the ‘self-insert fic’ as a unique form of escapism for female fans

Laura Arnott: University of Manchester
The “Cinematic” video game: intersections between film and digital game theory

Panel 8 (Roberts Room)

Anthony Peppiatt: Nottingham Trent University
Saturday Morning Cinema Clubs - A Lost Children's Community

Charis Richardson: Bangor University
Scoring Suburbia; The uses and influences of Minimalist Techniques within Thomas Newman’s Score for American Beauty (1999)
4.20-5.20

Panel 9 (Mathias Hall)

Stuart Stanton: Bangor University

Eisteddfod, Jeff Towns and Lady Gaga

Emma Buchanan: Bangor University

Rebirth: Indeterminate feminine roles in The Walking Dead 		In the event that there are cancellations on the day, these two papers will be moved to fill the gaps and the plenary will be extended.

5.20-5.30

Plenary and thank you message from conference organisers (Mathias Hall)