09.45-10.00 Introduction and Welcome [ES309]
10.00-11.30 Panel A [ES309]
- William Proctor (Bournemouth), ‘A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Critical Industrial Practice, Regimes of (Sub)Cultural Value, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema.
- Martin Fradley (Independent), ‘”This Book is about American Popular Culture in the Age of Extremism”: Cine/Telefantasy, Ideological Critique and the ‘Culture Wars’
- Ewan Kirkland (UoB: FSS), ‘The Gothic Gameplay of What Remains of Edith Finch’
11.30-11.45 Coffee / Tea Break
11.45-13.15 Panel B (i) [ES305]
- Douglas McNaughton (UoB: FSS), ‘Acting, Performance and Excess in 1970s Telefantasy’
- Jean Martin (UoB: DMSA), ‘The Sinister in Electronic Sound’
- Amy Godliman (UoB: DDM), ‘Doggerland Radio: A Multimedia Landscape of Historical Flotsam’
11.45-13.15 Panel B (ii) [ES309]
- Lindsay Hallam (UEL), ‘Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return’
- Sally Miller (UoB: Photography), ‘Screening the Lacanian Real: Ballard, Cronenberg, Crash’
- Aris Mousoutzanis (UoB, FSS), ‘Bare Life, States of Exception and the Biopolitics of Dystopia’
13.15-14.30 Lunch Break [ES305] / Screening [ES309]:
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14.30-16.00 Panel C [ES309]
- Emma Withers (UoB, FSS), ‘Posthumanism in Claire Dennis’s High Life (2018)’
- Stacey Abbott (Roehampton), ‘When Aliens meet Vampires: Near Dark (Bigelow 1987) as Gothic Action Film’
- Kate Meakin (Sussex), ‘A White Feminist Dystopia: Chrononormativity and Historical Amnesia in The Handmaid’s Tale Protests’
16.00-16.15 Coffee / Tea Break
16.15-17.45 Panel D [ES309]
- Monica Germanà (Westminster), ‘The Resistance of the Undead in Sicilian Ghost Story (2018)’
- Christine Hui (Sussex), ‘Sakura Perfume: Representations of the Nation in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata 2013)”.
- Prof Deborah Philips (UoB: English Literature), ‘Utopia, Nostalgia and National Identity in British Bake Off’
17.45-18.00 Concluding Remarks and Future Plans [ES309]
