Programme

     

    Women and New Hollywood

    29-30 May 2018

    Wednesday, 30 May

    9.30: Panel 4: Historiography (Chair: Julie Turnock, Illinois)
    (Iontas building, AFF Seminar Room, Floor 1)

    Alicia Kozma (Washington College): The Rothman Renaissance 
    Aimee Dixon Anthony (George Mason): The LA Rebellion and African American Women Filmmakers of Early Cinema 
    Hannah Hamad (Cardiff): Seeing Adrian and Being Private Benjamin: Defamiliarising Default Masculinity in Empirical Approaches to Studying New Hollywood
     
    11.00: Coffee (Iontas building, foyer)
     
    11.15: Panel 5: Women and Irish Media Industries Roundtable (Chair: Maria Pramaggiore, Maynooth)
    (Iontas building, AFF Seminar Room, Floor 1)

    Anne O’Brien (Maynooth)
    Susan Liddy (Mary Immaculate) 
    Katherine Canty (Independent Filmmaker)
     
    12.45: Lunch (Iontas building, foyer)
     
    1.30: Panel 6: New Hollywood’s End and Legacy (chair: Aaron Hunter, Maynooth)
    (Iontas building, AFF Seminar Room, Floor 1)

    Francesca Moretti (La Sapienza): Feminine Stereotypes in New Hollywood’s Action Movies: Alien, a Case Study
    Alan Taylor (Independent researcher): Hair in the Gate: Joann Carelli, New Hollywood, and Heaven’s Gate
    Andrew Nelson (Montana State): Desert Hearts: The Sapphic West in the Shadow of the New Hollywood
     
    3.00: Coffee (Iontas building foyer)
     
    3.30: Keynote (Education Building, room 133) 
    Julie Turnock (Illinois): All the Wrong Lessons: New Hollywood and Contemporary Auteurism 
    followed by closing remarks

    (Day 1)