Programme
The American New Wave: A Retrospective
4 - 6 July 2017
The Music Building, Bangor University
Tuesday 4 July
09:00 |
Registration / Tea & Coffee (Music Building Foyer) |
11:00 |
Conference Introduction (Mathias Hall)
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11:15 |
Keynote Address (Mathias Hall) Professor Robert Kolker (University of Maryland) – ‘New Hollywood, New Criticism: The Revolution in Writing about Film’ |
12:30 |
Lunch (Music Building Foyer) |
13:15 |
Parallel Panel Sessions PANEL A – Revisiting Key Films of the American New Wave I (Roberts Room) (Chair: Matthew Melia) Yannis Tzioumakis (University of Liverpool) – ‘Legitimising Exploitation: Easy Rider (1969) and Independent Cinema’s Journey into Hollywood’ Frances Smith (University College London) – ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: Re-Reading the Nostalgia Film’ Cary Edwards (University of Lincoln) – ‘Formal Radicalism vs Radical Representation in The French Connection (William Friedkin, 1971) and Dirty Harry (Don Siegel, 1971)’ PANEL B - Authorship and the American New Wave I (Parry-Williams Room) (Chair: Sarah Thomas) Emilio Audissino (University of Southampton) – ‘Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker: New Hollywood’s Zany Godards’ Philip Drake – ‘Becoming Hal Ashby: Harold and Maude (1971) and Hal Ashby’s Quirky Early Career’ Fjoralba Miraka (Roehampton University) – ‘Old Hollywood Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Or Does It?: Cinematic Melodramas of Beset Manhood in the Hollywood Renaissance’ |
14:45 |
Tea/ Coffee (Music Building Foyer) |
15:15 |
Parallel Panel Sessions PANEL A – Alternatives to Auteurism in the American New Wave (Roberts Room) (Chair: Peter Krämer) Oliver Gruner (University of Portsmouth) – ‘Renaissance Man: Waldo Salt, Screenwriting and the American New Wave’ Frederick Wasser (Brooklyn College CUNY) - ‘Coppola’s The Conversation and New Wave Sound Design’ Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University) - ‘The Film Editors who invented the New Hollywood: Sam O’Steen, Dede Allen, and Ralph Rosenblum’ Christopher Brown (University of Greenwich) – ‘Inherent Vice? Waste, naturalism and the mass subject in the American New Wave’ Raqi Syed (Victoria University of Wellington) – ‘Expanded Cinema ++: The French Avant-Garde, The New American Cinema, and Virtual Reality’ Neil Jackson (University of Lincoln) – ‘Losing Ben Gardner’s Head – Jaws: The Sharksploitation Editand the gutting of Spielberg’s big fish’ |
16:45 |
Wine reception (Music Building Foyer) – Sponsored by the School of Creative Studies and Media |
17:30 |
SCREENING IN PONTIO : Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) |
20:00 |
Conference Buffet Meal |
Wednesday 5 July
09:15 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Mathias Hall) Professor I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort University) – ‘The Passions of John Milius’ |
10:30 |
Tea/ Coffee (Music Building Foyer) |
11:00 |
Parallel Panel Sessions PANEL A - Stars of the American New Wave (Roberts Room) Robert Hensley-King (Ghent University) – ‘Problematic Patriarchy: Jack Nicholson’s Mischievous Masculinities, 1969-75’ Vincent Brook (UCLA) – ‘American New Wave, Jewish Star Style: Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand’ PANEL B - Women and the American New Wave (Parry-Williams Room) Aaron Hunter (Maynooth University) – ‘Polly Platt’s New Hollywood Aesthetic’ Aimee Mollaghan (Edge Hill University) – ‘Lost in the Landscape: Barbara Loden’s Influence on the Contemporary American Female Road Movie’
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12:00 |
Lunch |
12:45 |
Parallel Panel Sessions PANEL A – Genre and the American New Wave (Roberts Room) Mehdi Achouche (Jean Moulin University) – ‘“Never Trust Anybody Over 30”: Science Fiction and the New Hollywood 1968-77’ Nicholas Godfrey and Zoë Wallin (Flinders University) – ‘The Boys Can Kill: The 1970s Youth Western Cycle’ Eddie Falvey (University of Exeter) – ‘Tortured Landscapes: Reconfiguring the Nation’s Mythical Body in the Rural Horrors of the New Hollywood Era’ PANEL B – Legacies of the American New Wave I (Parry-Williams Room) (Chair: Yannis Tzioumakis) Gary Bettinson (Lancaster University) – ‘Superman the Movie and the End of the New Hollywood’ (1977)’ Matt Denny (University of Warwick) – ‘The Postmodern Auteur: A New Wave Legacy’ Andrew Stubbs (Edge Hill University) – ‘The Indie Auteur and Television: Steven Soderbergh and The Knick’ |
14:15 |
Tea/ Coffee (Music Building Foyer) |
14:45 |
Paralleol Panel Sessions PANEL A – Production Companies and the American New Wave (Roberts Room)(Chair: Frederick Wasser) Sarah Thomas (Aberystwyth University) – ‘From Authentic Joes to Fake Bobs: Cannon Film’s 1970s New Wave Era’ Paul Kerr (Middlesex University) – ‘Not the Movie Brats The American New Wave, Independent Production and the Mirisch Company’ PANEL B – New York and the American New Wave (Parry-Williams Room) Justin Wadlow (University Picardie Jules Verne) – ‘Permanent Vacation: Hollywood-New York-New Wave’ Sven Weidner (University of Bamberg) – ‘New York City and its cops in New Hollywood Films and Independent Movies of the 1990s/2000s’
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15:45 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Mathias Hall) Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia) – ‘Watch the Skies: Steven Spielberg, Science Fiction and American Cinema, 1967-80’ |
17:30 |
SCREENING IN PONTIO: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) Tickets available now – www.pontio.co.uk |
Thursday 6 July
09:15 |
Parallel Panel Sessions PANEL A - Revisiting Key Films of the American New Wave II (Roberts Room) (Chair I.Q. Hunter) Stephen Parmelee (Seaver College, Pepperdine University) – ‘Point Blank: John Boorman’s Existentialist Thriller’ Sebastian Croft (University of Warwick) – ‘History bites back: Confronting the atomic bomb in Jaws’ Hauke Lehmann (Freie Universität Berlin) – ‘Splitting the Spectator: An Affective History of the New Hollywood’ Daniel Lik Hang Chan (Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts) – ‘Robin Wood’s Legacy: Ambivalence and American Films in the 1970s’ Michael Goddard (University of Westminster) – ‘New Wave Cinema/New Wave Criticism?: The Strange Case of Peter Biskind’ |
10:45 |
Tea/ Coffee (Music Building Foyer) |
11:00 |
Parallel Panel Sessions PANEL A - Legacies of the American New Wave II (Roberts Room) Raffaele Ariano (University of Oxford) – ‘The Romantic Comedies by Charlie Kaufman as part of the legacy of the American New Wave’ Jimmy Hay (University of Bristol) - 'After the Party: Weariness, stasis and the legacy of the American New Wave in the films of Kelly Reichardt' Kim Wilkins (University of Sydney) – ‘From Benjamin Braddock to Max Fischer: Considering Wes Anderson’s worlds through the American New Wave’PANEL B – Authorship and the American New Wave II (Parry-Williams Room) Matthew Melia (Kingston University) – ‘Rebuilding the Western: Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs Miller’ Chris Horn (University of Leicester) – ‘Remember My Name? Alan Rudolph, Authorship and the Influence of European Art Cinema’
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12:30 |
Lunch (Music Building Foyer) |
13:15 |
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (Mathias Hall) Professor Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton) – ‘Spielberg’s Children’
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14:30 |
Tea/ Coffee (Music Building Foyer) ** CONFERENCE CLOSES ** |
20:15 |
SCREENING IN PONTIO: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) Tickets available now – www.pontio.co.uk |