“Screening Atrocity: Cinema, Decolonisation and the Holocaust”
A one-day postgraduate workshop taking place at Culture Lab, Newcastle University, 10 th January 2013
Sponsored by the Research Centre in Film and Digital Media and Newcastle Postcolonial Research Group
This event is free but please register by the 7th December by visiting http://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=3910
For more details visit http://screeningatrocity.blogspot.co.uk/
PROGRAMME
10:30-11:00 Registration and welcome
11:00-12:00 Panel 1: Audience and Affect (Chair: Joe Barton)
Matt Lawson (Edge Hill): ‘Hearing Atrocity: Film Music and the Holocaust'
Gareth McAreavey (Liverpool): ‘Winning Hearts and Minds and Eyes: Recognizing Terrorism in Bouchareb’s Hors La Loi’
12:00-12:15 Break
12:15-1:15 Panel 2: Testimony and Complicity (Chair: Claire Peters)
Alex Adams (Newcastle): ‘Torquemada, Vichy, Paratroopers: La Question’
Iain Mossman (Cardiff): ‘Constructing the war without a name through the men without a voice: Multidirectional memory and the Algerian War Appelés in La Guerre Sans Nom’ (1992)
1:15-2:15 Lunch
2:15-3:15 Keynote Speaker: Professor Maxim Silverman (Leeds University)
3:15-4:15 Panel 3: Presence and Absence (Chair: Alex Adams)
Claire Peters (Birmingham): “There is no present”: Cityspace, Memory, Representation and ‘Reality’ in Caché (Haneke 2005)
Kierran Horner (Kings College London): Presence and Absence: the Revelation of War in Le Joli Mai and La Jetée
4:15-4:40 Screening of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962)
4:40-5:00 Close
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