DAY 1 – 12 November
| 9.00 – 10.00 | Registration
Welcome note NoRMMA Welcome note DICIS |
Tamar Jeffers McDonald, University of Kent Daniël Biltereyst, Ghent University |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Keynote | Eric Hoyt, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Variety’s Transformations: Digitizing and Analyzing the First 35 Years of a Canonical Trade Paper |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Break | |
| 11.30 – 1.00 | PANEL 1: Digital Impacts
Chair: Lies Lanckman, University of Kent
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Mark Lynn Anderson, University of Pittsburgh: Against Recovery: The Historian, the Archivist and the Film Historical Audience in the Digital Age
Judith Thissen, Utrecht University: “Nobody Knew”: Digital Humanities, Ephemeral Evidence and the Challenges of New Cinema History Matthew Jones & Steve Chibnall, DeMontfort University: Opening the Archive: British Film Periodicals C. Paul Sellors, Edinburgh Napier University: As We May Think about Film History |
| 1.00 – 2.00 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 – 3.30 | PANEL 2: Trade Journals
Chair: Roel Vande Winkel, University of Leuven
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Derek Long, University of Wisconsin-Madison: Programs, Star Series, Blocks, and Open Booking: The Debate over Feature Distribution in the Hollywood Trade Press, 1917-1922
Julie Nakama, University of Pittsburgh: “No Longer a Boy”: Doris Day, Costume, and Performance in Caprice (1967) Thunnis Van Oort, University of Antwerp: Business Interest Associations for Cinema Exhibition and Distribution in Belgium and the Netherlands Jessica L. Whitehead, York University and Paul S. Moore, Ryerson University: Foreign Players in a Domestic Market: Comparing U.S. & Canadian Film Trade Presses |
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Break | |
| 4.00 – 6.00 | PANEL 3: Industry roundtable
Chair: Eric Hoyt
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Lea Whittington, Margaret Herrick Library, Los Angeles
Anastasia Kerameos, British Film Institute Library, London Jean-Paul Dorchain, Belgian Cinematek/Royal Film Archive, Brussels Pelle Snickers, Umea University, Christopher Natzén and Mats Rohdin, National Library of Sweden |
| 6.00 – 8.00 | Drinks and Dinner | |
| 8.00 – 9.00 | Screening | Pollyanna (Paul Powell, 1920) |
DAY 2 – 13 November
| 09:50 | Assemble | |
| 10.00 – 11.00 | Keynote | Geneviève Sellier, University of Bordeaux, Montaigne: Popular films and popular spectatorship in post-war France: a Turning The Page research program in French film studies |
| 11.00 – 11.30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 1.00 | PANEL 4: Stars
Chair: Tamar Jeffers McDonald
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Mary Desjardins, Dartmouth College: Gross ‘Inaccuracies, Misrepresentations, and Exaggerations’: The Motion Picture Industry’s Clean-up of Movie Fan Magazines in 1934
Annie Fee, University College London: Sandra Milowanoff Between the Sheets: Cinephilic Film Journals and Popular Film Weeklies in 1920s Paris Ann-Marie Fleming, University of Kent: Taking Care of Elvis: Deconstructing the Structure and Content of Elvis Monthly 1960-1965 Alissa Clarke, DeMontfort University: In Bed with Mae West: Movie Magazine Revelations of the Boudoir as Creative, Training and Central Scenic Space |
| 1.00 – 2.00 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 – 3.30 | PANEL 5: Fans
Chair: Philippe Meers, University of Antwerp
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Emily Lord-Kambitsch, University College London: A Woman in the Chariot: Accessing Female Viewers of MGM’s Ben-Hur (1925) through Fan Magazines
Amy E. Borden, Portland State University: Before Motion Picture World: Movies in Gilded Age American Magazines Esther Pandya, University of Kent: A Play with Identity: The Female Reader of Fan Magazines Ellen Wright, DeMontfort University: ‘Every woman ShouldGlamour for Attention’: Hollywood Stars, Fan Annuals, Consumption and the Negotiation of Feminine Desirability in Austerity Britain |
| 3.30 – 4.00 | Break | |
| 4.00- 6.00 | PANEL 6: International Fan Magazines
Chair: Leen Engelen, University of Leuven
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Jonathan Driskell, Monash University, Malaysia: Stardom, Gender and Fan Magazines during the “Golden Age” of Malay Cinema
María-Paz Peirano, University of Kent: Hollywood Imaginaries at the End of the World: Ecran and the Construction of the International Industry from the Periphery Jacqueline Maingard, University of Bristol: Drumming Up Audiences: Movie Magazines, Pictorials, and Cinema in South Africa, 1915 to 1969 Oana-Maria Mazilu, University of Kent: A Star is born: Nicolae Ceausescu’s Image in the Romanian Film Magazine Cinema André Van der Velden, Utrecht University: Dutch Movie Magazines On- and Off-line |
| 8.00 – 9.00 | Nocturne | Visit to the exhibition Filmtheaters: Gent Cinemastad (Caermersklooster) |
DAY 3 – 14 November
| 9:50 | Assemble | |
| 10:00 – 11.30 | PANEL 7: Methodologies
Chair: Daniël Biltereyst |
Dominic Topp, University of Kent: Auteurs Avant la Lettre? Using Digital Movie Magazine Collections to Study Audiences’ Perception of Classical Hollywood Directors
Martin Loiperdinger, University of Trier: Teaching Historical Audience Studies in the Age of Digitalization – the Case of the Importing Asta Nielsen Database Michael Williams, University of Southampton: Searching for ‘Apollo’: Researching Star Discourse in the Film Fan Magazine Birgit Van Puymbroeck, University of Ghent: Intermedial Genres: The Radio Times and The Listener |
| 11:30 – 12.00 | Break | |
| 12.0 – 1.30 | PANEL 8: Active readers
Chair: Lies Van de Vijver, Ghent University |
Michael Cowan, University of St Andrews: Film Magazines and Cinephilic Education
Myriam Juan, University of Caen Basse-Normandie Looking at the Movie Fans: Pictures of Male and Female Spectators in the French Film Magazines of the Interwar Years Fabrice Lyczba, Université Dauphine, London: Recentering Silent Film Reception: Imagining the Playful Audience Through the Discourse of Realism in Fan and Trade Magazines Pierre Stotzky, Université de Lorraine: Letters From Readers of the Film Press: Film Culture Among French Sspectators in the Early 1920s |
| 1.30 – 2.00 | Closing remarks | Daniël Biltereyst, Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Lies Lanckman, Lies Van de Vijver |
Please do let us know if you’re interested in attending! We would love to see all of you there – feel free to email normma.network@gmail.com for more information.