Global Gallicisms: Circulating Frenchness through Mainstream Film and Television Saturday 21st March 2020, King’s College London Bush House, Lecture Theatre 2 9.15 – Registration opens 9.40-11.10 Welcome and Panel A – New Televisual Formats Chair: Alastair Phillips (University of Warwick) - David Pettersen (University of Pittsburgh), ‘Les Revenants: Transnational Inflections of Horror and the Fantastique in French Television’ - Jacqueline Nacache (Université Paris-Diderot), ‘Hippocrate: a French appropriation of the TV medical drama?’ 11.10-11.35 - Coffee break 11.35-1 Panel B – EuropaCorp and Transnational French Cinema Chair: Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton) - Isabelle Vanderschelden (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘Valérian and Anna: the limits of Luc Besson’s model for made-in-France blockbusters’ - Thomas Pillard (Sorbonne – Paris 3), ‘French Popular or Globalised Cinema? Investigating the Transnational Identities of EuropaCorp’s Blockbusters Through the Prism of Reception’ 1-2 – Lunch break 2-3.25 Panel C – Locating Frenchness in Canal+’s Versailles Chair: Ginette Vincendeau (King’s College London) - Kira Kitsopanidou and Olivier Thévenin (Sorbonne – Paris 3), ‘Canal + “Originals” and the making of Versailles: a socio-economic approach to an international hit drama series’ - Geneviève Sellier (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), ‘Gender politics in Versailles: a modern vision?’ 3.25-3.50 - Tea break 3.50- 5.15 Panel D – Popular French Film Genres in the Global Mediasphere Chair: Raphaëlle Moine (Sorbonne – Paris 3) - Belén Vidal (King’s College London), ‘The lives of performers: variations on the post- national and the place of the biopic in recent French production’ - Mary Harrod (University of Warwick), ‘French Romantic Comedy in the Era of Netflix’ 5.20- EUROPEAN AUDIOVISUAL EXPORTS: AN INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE Professor Lucy Mazdon (University of Hull) in conversation with producer Ben Holden (Let Me In, 2010; The Woman in Black, 2012) 6 pm – Closing remarks .