Michael Powell Centenary Conference

2/3/4 September 2005

University of Wales, Bangor

Initial registration will take place at the Ffriddoedd complex.

The main conference venue is the Main Arts Building on College Road (10 minutes walk from Ffriddoedd).

Information regarding conference rooms will be provided later.

Programme

Friday 2 September

2:00 pm onwards Registration

4:30 - 5:00 pm Welcome and Introduction - Andrew Moor

5:00 - 5:15 pm Tea / Coffee

5:15 - 7:00 pm

Panel: "Locating the Self: Narrative, Journey and Identity in the Films of Michael Powell" - The Powell Research Centre, Canterbury Christ Church University College

• Eddie McMillan: Chair (and Introduction)
• Karen Shepherdson: "Narrative Histories and the Presence of the Past in Powell and Pressburger's A Canterbury Tale"
• Bryan Hawkins: "From Fools and Pilgrims to the Postmodern Self: Powell, Neo-Romanticism, Personalism and the new construction of Post-War Identity"
• Nick Burton: "Landscapes of Desire in Age of Consent"

8:00 pm Drinks reception

8:30 pm Conference Dinner

Saturday 3 September

09:15 - 10:45 Parallel Sessions

Session B: Theories

• Anna Powell (Manchester Metropolitan University), "The Language of the Sensations: Synaesthesia and Affect in The Tales of Hoffmann"
• Patricia MacCormack (APU), "CineMasochism: Peeping Tom and the Ecstatic Gaze"

Session C: European Perspectives

• Llorenç Esteve (Film historian), "Honeymoon (1959): The Contamination of Popular Folklore"
• Leïla Wimmer (University of Warwick), "The Creation of an alternative canon: Peeping Tom and its critical reception in France"

10:45 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee

11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions

Session D: Black Narcissus

• Alan Marcus (University of Manchester), "Black Narcissus as Primal Drama"
• Adam Bingham (University of Sheffield), "Black Narcissus and Melodrama"

Session E: AMOLAD

• James Chapman (The Open University), "Conservative by Nature, Labour by experience": The historical moment of A Matter of Life and Death.
• Diane Friedman, "A Matter of Fried Onions: the Medical Case History by Michael Powell"

12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 pm Plenary

• Professor Lesley Stern (University of California, San Diego): Paper to be confirmed

3:00 - 4:30 pm Parallel Sessions

Session F: Written Words

• Kurt Luchs (AmericanComedyNetwork), "The shock of deep laughter & the shock of the new: the shockingly original screenplays of Powell and Pressburger"
• Peter G. Christianson (Cardinal Stritch University Milwaukee), "Group Loyalty and the Will of the Individual in the Archers' Literary Adaptations"

Session H: War and Aesthetics

• Elizabeth de Cacquerey (University of Toulouse), "Michael Powell (with Emeric Pressburger: the aesthetics and ethics of the war film"
• Stella Hockenhull (University of Wolverhampton), "Powell, Pressburger and Neo-Romanticism"

4:30 - 4:45 pm Tea/coffee

4:45 - 6:15 pm

Session I: Masculinity and Sexuality

• Alexander Doty (Lehigh University), "The Sacred and the Profane: Queering Black Narcissus"
• Robert Murphy (De Montfort University), "Powell and Pressburger's Men"

7:30 pm Conference Banquet

Sunday 4 September

09:30 - 11:00 Parallel Sessions

Session J: Outsiders

• Colin Sell (University of Essex), "Powell, the Pastoral and the Piper"
• Robert Shail (University of Wales, Lampeter), "Obsession and Destruction: Examining Michael Powell's "Visionary Male"

Session K: Previews and Post-Scripts

• Steve Chibnall (De Montfort University) "C.O.D. - Michael Powell's Quota Quickies"
• Steve Masters (University of Sunderland), "Gone to Earth and The Company of Wolves"

11:00 - 11:15 Tea / Coffee

11:15 - 12:45 Plenary

• Professor Ian Christie (Birkbeck, London), "Late Powell"

12:45 - 1:15 pm Concluding Discussion

1:15 pm Lunch and departure