Behind the Screen and Off the Stage Conference Programme

1.00pm – 1.20pm
Welcome from Professor Don MacRaild
Introduction to conference programme by Dr Karen McNally

1.30pm – 2.50pm
Panel 1: Race, Gender and Performance
Chair: Jen Atkins, Florida State University

Marie Bennett, University of Winchester, 'Performing Otherness in Fame (1980)'

Eleonora Sammartino, University of Greenwich, '"It takes a legend to make a star": Interrogating Femininity and Stardom in the Contemporary Musical’s Showgirl Narrative'

Pierre-Olivier Toulza, Université de Paris, 'Melodramatic Reversals in American Backstage Television Series'

2.50pm – 3.00pm – Tea/coffee break

3.00pm – 4.20pm
Panel 2: Star Texts
Chair: Marguerite Chabrol, Université Paris 8

Catherine Haworth, University of Huddersfield, 'Ann Miller as All-American Star: Virtuosity, Exoticism and "that crazy tom-tom beat"'

Searle Kochberg, University of Portsmouth, ‘Rehearsing Identity: The Hayworth Star Persona from “front stage” to “back stage” to “off stage”’

4.20pm – 4.30pm – Tea/coffee break

4.30pm – 5.50pm
Panel 3: Industry Contexts
Chair: Mike Chopra-Gant, London Metropolitan University

Justin Gautreau, University of California, Merced, 'Policy Matters vs. the Production Code: Tracing Hollywood’s Self-Representation in the 1930s'

Julie Lobalzo Wright, University of Warwick, 'The Rock Music Business Films: Industrialisation, Exploitation, and Stardom'

Milan Hain, Palacký University, 'The Starmaker on the Screen: David O. Selznick and the Figure of the Producer in A Star Is Born (1937) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)'

5.50pm – 6.20pm – Meal break

6.20pm – 7.20pm
Keynote address
Steven Cohan, Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English, Syracuse University
‘And They Lived Happily Ever After: Tarantino’s Rewriting of Hollywood’s History’

1.00pm – 2.20pm
Panel 4: Production Contexts
Chair: Eleonora Sammartino, University of Greenwich

Martha Shearer, University College Dublin, 'Whom Zeus Wishes to Destroy: Xanadu, Zoetrope, and Hollywood General Studios'

Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, University of Sheffield, 'From Revue to Songbook Musical: Adaptive Tensions in MGM’s The Band Wagon (1953)'

Carlos Menéndez-Otero, University of Oviedo, 'The Fault in Our Star: Keira Knightley and the Authenticity of Begin Again'

2.20pm – 2.30pm Tea/coffee break

2.30pm – 3.50pm
Panel 5: Hidden Hollywood
Chair: N.T.Binh, Independent Scholar and Positif 

Elisenda DÍaz Garcés, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 'Fighting for Visibility in the Hollywood Star System: The Fading Star in Feud (2017)'

Karen McNally, London Metropolitan University, ‘Phantom Women: The Lingering Presence of Abuse in Hollywood’s Stardom Narratives’

Desirée J. Garcia, Dartmouth College, '"Leading Men": Masculinity in the Dressing Room'

3.50pm – 4.00pm – Tea/coffee break

4.00pm – 5.20pm
Panel 6: Documenting Entertainment
Chair: Dominic Broomfield-McHugh, University of Sheffield

Aidan Moir, York University, 'Netflix Music Documentaries and the Circulation of Iconic Identities in American Entertainment'

Gary Edgerton, Butler University, 'Screening America's Soundtrack: The Multicultural Revisionism of Country Music'

Ian Sapiro, University of Leeds and Toby Huelin, University of Leeds, 'Into the Unknown: Uncovering the Film-Music Production Processes for Frozen II'

5.20pm – 5.45pm – Meal break

5.45pm – 7.00pm
Roundtable: 'Now You See Me, Now You Don’t': Stars as (Fictional) Characters
Chair: Julie Lobalzo Wright, University of Warwick

Contributors:
Georgia Brown. Queen Mary University
Lisa Duffy, Independent Scholar
Jade Evans, Queen Mary University
Caroline Langhorst, De Montfort University
Cathy Lomax, Queen Mary University

1.00pm – 2.40pm
Panel 7: Alternative Spaces and Places
Chair: Teresa Forde, University of Derby

Fátima Chinita, Lisbon Polytechnic Institute, 'The Other Side of Hollywood: The Indie Scene in (Self-)Reflexive Filmmaking'

David Melbye, Independent Scholar, 'Crime Jazz Diasporas: African-American Music in Japanese Sixties Cinema'

Marguerite Chabrol, Université Paris 8, 'Drawing Stars: Hollywood Satirical Cartoons and the Star System'

Hannah Andrews, Edge Hill University, 'The Melancholy Glamour of the Hollywood Star in Britain'

2.40pm – 2.50pm – Tea/coffee break

2.50pm – 4.30pm
Panel 8: Genre and Entertainment
Chair: Jon Baldwin, London Metropolitan University

Justin Bonthuys, Independent Scholar, ‘Melodrama and the Megastar: The Simplification and Sanitization of the Queer Entertainment Biopic in Pursuit of the Mainstream Audience’

Dara Milovanovic, University of Nicosia, ‘Fosse/Verdon and All That Jazz: Who is the Real Star Here?’

Arya Rani, University of Texas at Dallas, ‘“Hollywoo” Stars and Celebrities: Who Are They? How Are They Created? Let’s Find Out!’

Mark Jancovich, University of East Anglia, ‘Hollywood: The Haunted House’

4.30pm – 4.40pm – Tea/coffee break

4.40pm – 5.40pm
Keynote address:
Adrienne L. McLean, Professor of Film Studies, University of Texas at Dallas
‘Making [It] Up: Cosmetics, Coiffures, and Self-reflexivity in Classical Hollywood Cinema’