genre/nostalgia An online film and television conference Day One: Tuesday 5 January 2021 TIME STREAM A STREAM B (GMT) 8.30am- Welcome and opening remarks 8.40am 8.45am- Yearning for Television Past: TV Revivals and their Audiences National Genre Modes, Transnational Appropriations 10.30am (Chair: Laura Mee) (Chair: Elke Weissmann)

− Siobhan Scarlett O'Reilly, University of Hertfordshire: ‘Come along − Colleen Kennedy-Karpat & Wickham Flannagan, Bilkent with me to my little corner of the world, you'll soon forget that University: Genre/Nostalgia/Quintana (VIDEO ESSAY) there's any other place’: The Utopia and Nostalgia of Gilmore Girls − Nicolás Medina Marañón, University of Groningen: Nostalgic (VIDEO ESSAY) Evocations: The Cinematic Experience of Costumbrist Films − Bethan Jones, Cardiff University: 'I'll see you in twenty-five years': (VIDEO ESSAY) Manufactured nostalgia and life course fandom − Max Bledstein, University of New South Wales: From Elm − Ivan Phillips, University of Hertfordshire: ‘It’s a work in progress, Street to Valiasr Street: The Slasher Revival of Mohammad but so is life’: Doctor Who and the Haunted Fandom Hossein Latifi’s Girls’ Dormitory − Mareike Jenner, Anglia Ruskin University: Looking at Men: On Action TV, Nostalgia, and the Televisual Gaze 10.30am- Dark Pasts: Rethinking Historical Eras and Figures The Nostalgic Imaginary in Space, Place and Time 12.10pm (Chair: Cat Mahoney) Chair: Adam Herron)

− Caitlin Shaw, University of Hertfordshire: To the truth, to the − Daniel Nicolau Vidal, Independent Scholar & Jorge Pérez light: Genericity and historicity in Babylon Berlin Iglesias, Pompeu Fabra University: Exploring the unidealistic − Tom Watson, Teeside University: ‘Based on Truth, Lies…and what past: the tragic nostalgia in T2 Trainspotting (VIDEO ESSAY) actually happened’: Representations of Norwegian Black Metal − Alex Hastie, Coventry University: “I’m old East End. Real East and Prosthetic Memory in Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos (2018) End. Proper. You don’t mess with me”: Nostalgia, family, and − Vincent M. Gaine, King's College London: The Spy with the Blood- imagined geographies of east London in BBC TV soap Tinted Glasses: Nostalgic Espionage of the 21st Century EastEnders − Stella Gaynor, University of Salford: Better the devil you know: − Derek Johnston, Queen's University Belfast: Reading Folk nostalgia for the captured killer in Netflix's Conversations with a Horror Through Nostalgia Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes − Steven Adams, University of Hertfordshire: An American in Paris: art, film and the preservation of the modern imaginary 12.10pm- 1pm LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK

1pm-2pm KEYNOTE SPEAKER (Chair: Laura Mee)

Kate Egan, Northumbria University Nostalgia for pre-digital scares: childhood memories, horror and 35mm

2pm- New Frontiers: Rethinking the Western and Nostalgia Back to the Future Past: Nostalgia and Temporality 3.20pm (Chair: Craig Ian Mann) (Chair: Bethan Jones)

− Reece Goodall, Warwick University: ‘I was a lonesome cowboy': − Brunella Tedesco-Barlocco, Pompeu Fabra University: The Western and nostalgia in the Toy Story series “Through the darkness of future past”: the paradoxical − Paweł Pyrka, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities nostalgia behind Twin Peaks: The Return & Stefan Rabitsch, University of Graz/University of Klagenfurt: − Christoffer Bagger, University of Copenhagen: The Future “Because it’s one hell of a life”: Old/New West Nostalgia, the Happening Right Now: The Mythic Ages Genre and Cloud Atlas Romance of Ranching, and Elegiac Cowboys in Yellowstone − Michael Fuchs, University of Oldenburg: Returning to Jurassic − Isabella Macleod, King’s College London: ‘What chance has this Park: Serializing Necrofuturistic Cycles of De-Extinction and country got?': using the generic conventions of the Western to Re-Extinction expose the oxymoron of Australia as a settler-colonial power 3.20pm- 3.50pm BREAK BREAK

3.50pm- Video Nostalgia and Analogue Aesthetics Teen Dreams and Beauty Queens: Music and Musicals 5.10pm (Chair: Tom Watson) (Chair: Frances Smith)

− Martin Jones, Liverpool John Moores University: Nostalgia and − Nathalie Weidhase, University of Surrey: Popular Music, Music Nostophobia in Puppet Combo Games (VIDEO ESSAY) Video and Postfeminist Nostalgia: Lana del Rey’s ‘National − Jamie Terrill, Lancaster University: Caught on Tape? Skateboard Anthem’ (2012) Visual Culture and Nostalgia − Toby Huelin, University of Leeds: Stick to the Status Quo? − Shellie McMurdo & Laura Mee,University of Hertfordshire: Dead Music and Nostalgia on Disney+ Media: VHS nostalgia in the contemporary horror genre − Eleonora Sammartino, University of Greenwich: “Let’s Hear It for the Boy”: Masculinity and Nostalgia in the Remake of 1980s Teen Musicals

5.10pm- Gender in Genre Film and TV: Women and Nostalgia 6.45pm (Chair: Amy Harris)

− Miriam Kent, University of Essex: ‘You look like somebody’s disaffected niece’: Gender, Genre and ‘90s Nostalgia in Captain Marvel (2019) (VIDEO ESSAY) − Cat Mahoney, University of Liverpool: 'History is a beautiful thing': Feminising the recent past in Derry Girls and GLOW − Lynne Stahl, West Virginia University: Perverting Nostalgia: Authoriality, Ambivalence, and Tomboy Narrative in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women − Sinead Edmonds, Warwick University: Reversing Expectations: The Female Director in Exploitation Film

Day Two: Wednesday 6 January 2021 TIME STREAM A STREAM B (GMT) 9am- Reimagining Heritage: Adapting Classic Literature and Beyond American Dreams, American Nightmares 10.40am (Chair: Caitlin Shaw) (Chair: Shellie McMurdo)

− Patricia Di Risio, Monash University: The Spectre of British − Lindsay Hallam, University of East London: “So, you’ve taken Heritage Cinema on Australian National Cinema someone else’s Nostalgia”: Trauma, Nostalgia and American Hero − Amy Harris, De Montfort University: The problem with Stories Wuthering Heights (2011, Andrea Arnold) − Emily Holland, University of Auckland: Grindhouse Nostalgia, − Ana Daniela Coelho, University of Lisbon: Evoking Austen: Mediated Corporeality and 9/11 in Robert Rodriguez’s Planet Autumn de Wilde's Emma (2020) Terror − Will Stanford Abbiss, Victoria University of Wellington: “Duty − Craig Clark, Northumbria University: Interpreting the American and Service to Above and Below”: Parade’s End, Nostalgic Dream as a Nostalgic Genre: A Study of Easy Rider and Fear and Lamenting and the Resurgence of Comedy Loathing in Las Vegas − Sabrina Mittermeier, University of Kassel: Ryan Murphy’s Hollywood and Queer Nostalgia 10.40am - (De)constructing National Mythologies and Narratives Growing Pains: Genres for Young Audiences 12.20pm (Chair: Colleen Kennedy-Karpat) (Chair: Eleonora Sammartino)

− Wei Dong, University of Nottingham Ningbo China: Gender, − Victoria Mullins, University of Cambridge: Title TBA: Disney National Trauma and The Flowers of War (2011) (POSTER) animation and childhood horror − Liam Ball, University of Sheffield: “Sorry, Skippy!” The − Filipa Antunes, University of East Anglia: Remaking genre history? development of nostalgia in Australian horror cinema Contemporary horror, childhood, and 1980s nostalgia − Zhun Gu, Fudan University: The Analysis of Nostalgic − Ralph Overill, University of East London: Monsters and Margins: Narratives in the Documentary of Li Ziqi under the A practice-based reaction to fearsome coming-of-age films Background of China’s Soft Power Communication − Frances Smith, University of Sussex: Don’t you forget about me: − Cathrin Bengesser, Aarhus University: When everything is as is Generic Nostalgia in the Netflix Teen Film used to be: Christmas television as a stage for public service legitimacy 12.20pm - 1pm LUNCH BREAK LUNCH BREAK

1pm - ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION 2pm (Chair: Caitlin Shaw)

Streaming the Past: Contemporary Television, Genre and Nostalgia

Panelists: Kim Akass, Rowan University; Amy Holdsworth, University of Glasgow; Mareike Jenner, Anglia Ruskin University; Elke Weissmann, Edge Hill University 2pm - Queer Nostalgias in Film and Television Objects of Nostalgia: Materiality in Genre Film and Television 3.40pm (Chair: Sabrina Mittermeier) (Chair: Kim Walden)

− Adam Herron, Northumbria University: Saving Michael's − Andy McCormack, University of Cambridge: Bleeding Edges: The Thing: Gay Porn and the Grind House in HBO's The Deuce Children's Book in Comedy and Horror (VIDEO ESSAY) − Jiří Anger, Charles University: The Milestone That Never − Ellie Turner-Kilburn, University of Sussex: Creating nostalgia in Happened: Digital Kříženecký, False Archive Effect, and the Failed in Carol: fandom and the creation of queer tradition Beginning of Czech Cinema − Gilad Padva, Tel Aviv University: Staged Effeminacies, − Caroline N Bayne, University of Minnesota: Domestic un- Theatricalized Sissies and Fake Sexualities: A Critical Nostalgic specificity: The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell and the Reading of the Film The Gay Deceivers (1969) mid-century kitchen − Vinícius Ferreira, Salgado de Oliveira University & Ana Paula − Christa val Raalte & Thomas Hassall, Bournemouth University: Goulart Ribeiro, University of Grenoble: Cinema and queer Playing with the past: structures of nostalgia in Ready Player One nostalgia in the Brazilian documentary Divine Divas (2017) 3.40pm - BREAK BREAK 4.10pm 4.10pm - Imagined Worlds: Nostalgia in Fantasy & Science Fiction Television Negotiating Politics in Nostalgic Genres and Codes 5.50pm (Chair: Stella Gaynor) (Chair: Lindsay Hallam)

− Emily Saidel, University of Michigan: “Time Marches On…Or − Bruce Lai, Kings College London: Nostalgic Man-child in Comedy Does It?”: Nostalgia as Threat in Contemporary Fantasy Films in 21st Century China Television − Cody Parish & Autumn Fredline, Midwestern State University: − Laura Gibson, American University: Noir Fantasies in 21st Championing America’s Losers: Resolving the Culture Wars in the Century American Television It Adaptations − Marie Josephine Bennett, University of Winchester: 1973 and − Matthew Leggatt, University of Winchester: A Stranger Sort of all that; nostalgia and actuality in Life on Mars Nostalgia: Texture, Prosthesis, and Politics − Louise Coopey, University of Birmingham: ‘Women can’t be − Craig Ian Mann, Sheffield Hallam University: Second Contact: knights’: Chivalric honour and navigating nostalgia in Game of Nostalgia and Alien Invasion Cinema in the 1980s Thrones’ fantasy/horror hybrid genre 5.50pm Closing conversation