Scottish Word and Image Group Conference 2013

FILM, THEATRE, PERFORMANCE

Richard Burton recording Under Milk Wood with Elizabeth Taylor by Michael Peto
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20th Annual Scottish Word and Image Group Conference, University of Dundee
Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd June 2013
D'Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre, Tower Building

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9:30-10:30am Session One: Opening Keynote (Chair: Brian Hoyle)
John Izod and Karl Magee (University of Stirling) - 'Lindsay Anderson, Film, Theatre and In Celebration'

10:30-11-00am Tea/Coffee Break

11:00-12:30pm Session Two: Pre and Early Cinema and Theatricality (Chair: Iain Davidson)
Keith Williams (University of Dundee) - 'Joyce, Magic Lanterns and Cinematicity'
Charles Barr (St Mary's Twickenham) - 'Filming the Play in 1930'
Matthew Jarron (University of Dundee) - 'Stars on Parade - Pooling New Performance Talent for British Cinema in the Early Sound Era'

12:30-1:30pm Buffet Lunch (1.36, Baxter Suite)

1:30-2:30pm Session Three: Playwrights and Actors (Chair: Caitlin McDonald)
James Stewart (University of Dundee) - 'George Bernard Shaw's "Lost" Letters to Johnston Forbes-Robertson'
Mark Brown (University of Dundee/ Theatre Critic, Sunday Herald & Daily Telegraph) - 'Contemporary Scottish Drama: A Kind of Renaissance?'

2:30-2:40pm Break

2:40-3:20pm Session Four: The Story of Us (Chair: Matthew Jarron)
Graham Fagen (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design) - 'The Making of Us, a discussion of a new multi-media Film and Performance work'

3:20-3:30pm Tea/Coffee Break

3:30-4:30pm Session Five: Animation (Chair: Chris Murray)
Sharon Campbell (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design) - 'Drawing on imagination vs. drawing on experience: developing techniques for drawing performance in animation'
Paul Wells (Loughborough University) - 'Goofy the Sportsman: Animation, Theatricality, Performance'

4:45-5:45pm Civic Reception at Dundee City Chambers

6:00-8:50pm Session Six: Screening at DCA (Chairs: Brian Hoyle/Alice Black) In Celebration (Lindsay Anderson, 1974) with an introduction by and Q&A with Brian Cox

9pm Dinner - Dundee REP Theatre

9:30-11:00am Session Seven: Film, Theatre and Early-Period Literature 1 (Chair: Golda Walker)
Jodi-Anne George (University of Dundee) - 'The Pre-Raphaelites and Theatre'
Jordan Risbridger (University of Dundee) - '"I sing this song about myself, full sad": Performing the Old English Elegies'
Pascale Aebischer (University of Exeter) - 'Live performance and its online remediation: from Phelan's live to the living'

11:00-11-30am Tea/Coffee Break

11:30-12:30pm Session Eight: Playwrights, Theatrical Theorists and Filmmakers (Chair: Matthew Jarron)
Peter Jameson (Queens University Belfast) - 'Vsevolod Meyerhold and vertical space in the films of Joseph Losey'
Mark Robson (University of Nottingham) - 'Brecht, Godard and Haneke'

12:30-1:30pm Buffet Lunch (1.36, Baxter Suite)

1:30-2:00pm Session Nine: Live Transmission and the Cinema (Chair: Keith Williams)
Alice Black (Dundee Contemporary Arts) - 'Live Theatre Transmissions at the Cinema'

2:00-2:10pm Break

2:10-3:40pm Session Ten: Theatre and Early-Period Literature 2 (Chair: Jodi-Anne George)
Rowland Wymer (Anglia Ruskin University) - 'The Duchess of Malfi on Film: Peter Huby's Quietus'
Elizabeth Rogers (University of Dundee) - 'Performing and Filming Shakespeare during the Second World War'
Jen Barnes (University of Exeter) - 'Art not without ambition: Stardom, Selfhood and Laurence Olivier's unmade Macbeth'

3:40-4:20pm Session Eleven: Dramatic Reading with the JOOT Theatre Company

4:40-5:30pm Session Twelve: Concluding Keynote (Chair: Brian Hoyle)
Neil Sinyard (University of Hull) - 'Cinematic Space within a Theatrical Frame: William Wyler and the Art of Adapting Plays'

5:30-6:00pm Final Discussion and Concluding Remarks

6:00-7:00pm Wine Reception and Exhibition Private View
Exhibition: 'Performing Ghosts: The Theatre, Film and Television Photography of Michael Peto'

7:00pm Dinner - The D'Arcy Thompson

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