The University of Hull from
11-13 October 2002
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:
Friday 11 October
14:30 - 17:30 Registration
17:30 - 17:50: Reception
17:50 - 18:00: Welcome and Introductions
18:00 � 19:00:
Guest Lecture,
Professor Reynold Humphries, University of Lille.
"Fantasy, femininity and family secrets: the politics of representation in early Mario Bava".
19:00 - 22:00: Conference Dinner
Transfer to UGC Cinemas (Hull)
23:00 � 01:00:
Public Screening: Red Dragon (Brett Ratner, 2002)
Saturday 12 October
9:15-10:45
Panel 1: Screening the Horror Series
CHAIR: Dr Matt Hills
Paper 1: Ian Conrich, University of Surrey, Roehampton.
�The Friday the 13th Films and the cultural function of a modern Grand Guignol�
Paper 2: Peter Hutchings, Northumbria University.
�Scrolls of Life: Universal's Mummy Films�
Paper 3: Simon Wilkinson, University of Hull
�Life and Death After Hitchcock: Bates, Bloch and the Horror Franchise�
11:00-12:30
Panel 2: Interpreting Auteurs
CHAIR: Peter Hutchings, University of Northumbria
Paper 1: Franc Lafond, University of Lille.
�The Cinematic Art of Jacques Tourneur�
Paper 2: Linnie Blake, Manchester Metropolitan University.
�Another One For the Fire: George A. Romero's American Theology of the Flesh�
Paper 3: Cathy Gelbin, University of Manchester.
�The Evocation of Holocaust Imagery in Hitchcock's Psycho�
12:30-13:15 Buffet Lunch:
13:15-14:45
Panel 3: Audience and Reception
CHAIR: Dr Mark Jones
Paper 1: Brigid Cherry, St Mary�s College, University of Surrey.
� A Particular Fondness: A Model of the Female Horror Film Audience�
Paper 2: Matt Hills, Cardiff University.
�Consuming Horror's Special Effects: Audience Effects and Doubled Attention�
Paper 3:Yvonne Leffler, Karlstad University, Sweden.
�Horror as Pleasure and as Role Play�
15:00-16:30
Panel 4: American Psychos
CHAIR: Ian Conrich, University of Surrey, Roehampton.
Paper 1: Leighton Grist, King Alfred�s College, Winchester
�The Nightmare Continues - The Persecuted Yuppie Cycle�
Paper 2: David Eldridge, University of Hull.
�The Generic American Psycho�
Paper 3: Steven Schneider, Harvard University
�The Madwomen in Our Movies�
16:45 - 17:45
Guest Lecture by
Professor Richard Dyer,
University of Warwick:
Killing for the Family; The Italian Horror Film
Transfer to UGC Cinemas, Hull
19: 40 � 21:00
Screening: The Bride of Frankenstein
(James Whale, 1935)
Introduced by:
Peter Hutchings
21:15 � 23: 00
Screening: Psycho
(Gus Van Sant, 1998)
Introduced by:
Steven Schneider
23:15 � 1:00
Screening: Brain Dead
(Peter Jackson, 1992)
Introduced By:
Xavier Mendik
Sunday 13 October
9:15 � 10:45:
Panel 5: Of European Origins
CHAIR:
Paper 1: Antonio Lazaro-Reboll, University of Nottingham
�This Doesn't Look Like a Spanish Film: La Residencia (1969)�
Paper 2: Stacey Abbott, University of Surrey, Roehampton
�Spectral Vampires: Modern Technology and the Vampire Myth in Cinema�
Paper 3: Paul Wells, Teeside University
�Animated Anxiety: Svankmajer, surrealism and the 'Agit-Scare'�
11: 00 � 12: 45
Panel 6: Dominant Themes of Italian Horror
CHAIR:
Paper 1: Patricia MacCormack, Anglia Polytechnic University
�Visceral Desire: The Fear of the Flesh�
Paper 2: Tamao Nakahara, University of California, Berkeley.
�Horrific Habits: Italian Nunsploitation Films�
Paper 3: Gary Needham, University of Glasgow
�The Giallo; Italian Cinema Par Excellance�
Paper 4: Xavier Mendik, University College, Northampton
�Monstrous Sex: Horror, Eroticism and Cult Constructions of the �Other� in the Black Emanuelle Films�
12: 45 � 13: 30
Buffet Lunch;
13: 30 � 15:00
Panel 7: Horrifying the Academy
CHAIR: Yvonne Leffler (Karlstad University)
Paper 1: Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University College
�Whatever Needs to be Understood; How Theory Finds Itself in Horror�
Paper 2: Mark Jones, University of Wolverhampton
�Theory / Fear-y: Knowing Horror�
Paper 3: Anna Powell, Manchester Metropolitan University
�Becoming Animal, Becoming Woman, Becoming Monster: Deleuze and the Aesthetics of Horror�
15:15 � 16: 45:
Panel 5: British Traditions
CHAIR: Dr Brigid Cherry
Paper 1: Shaun Kimber, King Alfred�s College.
�Including the Excluded: The Views of Genre Fans on the Regulatory Censorship of Film Violence in Britain�
Paper 2: Dave Rolinson, University of Hull.
�The Decaying Victor: Fifties Britain and The Quatermass Experiment�
Paper 3: Ian Hunter, De Montfort University.
�Norman J. Warren�s Terror: A British Suspiria?�
17: 00 � 17:45:
Closing Speaker:
Neil Sinyard (University of Hull)
�Horror/Comic: Some reflections on Horror comedy and Richard Lester's
'The Bed Sitting Room (1969)�
