Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation

Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation
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Saturday 10 May 2008
Conference Programme

Venue: Hitchcock Cinema, Arts G.19, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS
9am – 9.30am Registration and coffee

9.30am Welcome and Introductory Remarks by Dr Jeremy Hicks
(Queen Mary, University of London)

Keynote Speaker: Professor James Chapman (University of Leicester)
From Russia with Love? James Bond, the Cold War and Anglo-Russian Relations

10.00am Panel 1: Importing Russia

Chair: Lucy Bolton (QMUL)

Harlow Robinson, Russian Music in Hollywood Cinema

Amy Sargeant, Gaming with Pushkin

Raisa Sidenova, Mother Russia and her Daughters: Representations of Russian Women in Hollywood Films, 1941-45

11.15am Coffee
11.30am
Panel 2: Russian Women: Mothers and Others

Chair: Sophie Mayer (University of Cambridge)

Candyce Veal, Planes of Discourse: Defining Women through Soviet Aviation on Screen

Emily Schuckman, The Prostitutka Abroad: Foreign Representations of the Russian Prostitute

Ekaterina Vassileva, Eternal Mothers and Lost Sons: Sexual and National Identity in the Soviet Film Since the 1960s

1pm-1.45 pm
Buffet Lunch.
Loop screening of video composition Towards the True Man or a Reach Too Far (Pavla Alchin), UK 2008, 10 mins Hitchcock Cinema
1.45-2.15pm Keynote Speaker 2: Professor Julian Graffy (SSEES-UCL)
In the Hinterland: Evolving Cinematic Images of Life in the Russian Provinces

2.15pm Panel 3: No More Heroes?

Chair: John Haynes (University of Essex)

William Brown, The Portrayal of Fatherhood in Recent Russian Cinema

Natalia Danilova, Masculinity and The Post-Soviet Warrior

3.15pm Coffee
3.30pm Panel 4: Constructing and Reconstructing Russian Identity

Chair: Jeremy Hicks (QMUL)

Daniel Levitsky, The Cinematic Relaunch of Russia’s Soviet Identity, 1953-1968

Jasmijn Van Gorp, The Russian Blockbuster as a Tool to Articulate a National Identity: The Case of The Ninth Regiment

4.30pm Comfort Break
4.45pm Panel 5: Russianness and Otherness

Chair: Julian Graffy (SSEES-UCL)

Anna Hillman, Representing Globalization and Russian National Identity in Crisis: Iurii Mamin’s Okno v Parizh

Lars Kristensen, Framing Post-Soviet Russians Abroad in Cinema: A Transnational Challenge to Theory

Olga Tabachnikova, Russian Culture: Western View in the Russian Mirror

6.00pm Concluding remarks followed by wine reception


7.00pm Dinnner & Post-mortem at L’Oasis restaurant, Mile End Road
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