University of Brighton, Grand Parade 225/214
1000-1120
“It’s Alive!”: Horror and the Moving Image
- Xavier Aldana-Reyes – Why Affect Matters: The Importance of Emotion and Somatics to the Study of the Horror Film
- Glenn Ward – Vampires in the Vanguard: When Pere Portabella Met Jesús Franco
- Darren Elliott-Smith – “Drag, Die, Repeat”: Performative Pleasure and Queer Horror in American Horror Story
1120-1140: Break
1140-1300
Fantastic Cinema
- Frank Gray – The Impossible: Early Film and the Representation of the Unreal
- Emma Withers – Disembodying Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre and Performance
- Holly Chard – “Don’t Ruin the Fantasy, Okay?”: Teenage Masculinity and Fantasies of Womanhood in Weird Science
1300-1400: Lunch
1400-1520
Amazing Television
- Sally Shaw – “The Past Threatens to Break in”: Sapphire and Steel, Uncanny Spaces and ‘New Right’ Ideology
- Christine Cornea – “For Queen, For Country, For Kicks”: Post-Apocalyptic Patriotism, Youth and Gender in Spooks: Code 9
- Martin Fradley – “It is happening … again”: Uncanny Repetition, Donald Trump and Twin Peaks: The Return
1400-1520 (GP: 214)
“This Can’t be Happening”: Gothic Video Games
- Emily Jessica Turner – Trapped within the Victorian Gothic: How Video Games Reimagine The Yellow Wallpaper
- Rob Gallagher – Artificial Intelligence, Real Fear: Gothic Video Games and the Horror of Intelligent Machines
- Ewan Kirkland – “Nuke Possum Springs”: Night in the Woods, Digital Storytelling and the Ludo-Gothic
1520-1540: Break
1540-1710
Contemporary Screen Science Fiction
- Ali Williams – The Dutch-Aneela Effect: Doppelgangers and Binary Opposition in SyFy’s Killjoys
- Patricia McManus – Dystopian ‘Mobs’: Politics and Form in Black Mirror and Blade Runner 2049
- Aris Mousoutzanis – Science Fiction, Biopolitics and the Simulacrum: Channel 4’s Humans
1540-1700 (GP: 214)
“We Didn’t Burn Him!”: Folk Horror and British Screen Cultures
- Douglas McNaughton – Folk Horror in British Television Drama: The Pattern Under the Plough
- David Powell – Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation: The Temporal Nightmares and Haunted Landscapes of British Television
- Diane A. Rodgers – Why Wyrd? Why Folklore? Why Now?