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Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Helen Hanson (University of Exeter)
Warren Pleece (Comic Artist and Graphic Novelist)
09:00-9:30 Registration (The Oculus, OC1.06), Tea and Coffee
09:30-9:45 Opening Remarks
09:45-10:45 Panel 1: (Re)Creating/Marginalising History
Alex Pavey (University College London), “‘Something is wrong here’: James Ellroy and the Historiography of Noir Los Angeles”
Thomas Travers (Birbeck University), “Cuban Breach: Don DeLillo’s Libra as Historical Noir”
Michael Docherty (University of Kent), “All Pachucos go to Heaven: Grim Fandango’s Interactive Requiem for the Mexican Dead of 1940s Los Angeles”
10:45-11:45 Panel 2: The “Historical” Female Body
Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex), “Black and White and Dead: The Femme Fatale as Corpse in Retro Noir”
Esther Wright (University of Warwick), “‘It’s a sad story but this town has seen it play out a thousand times”: L.A. Noire’s ‘Historical’ Women”
Kulraj Phullar (King’s College London), “Veronica Lake and L.A. Confidential: Nostalgia, anachronism and film history”
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-1:00 Keynote: Dr. Helen Hanson, University of Exeter
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Panel 3: New and Old Fatale Figures
Agata Frymus (University of York), “‘The Marryingest Girl in Hollywood’: Romance and Rita Hayworth’s private star persona”
Maysaa Jaber (University of Baghdad), “Breaking the Rules: The Noir Fiction of Charles Williams”
Scott Stoddart (Saint Peter’s University), “History Repeats Itself: The Femmes Fatales of Laura and Gone Girl”
Maxine Gee (University of York), “Not so Damned Dames: How Posthuman Noir subverts traditional film noir tropes in Ex_Machina”
3:15-3:30 Tea/Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 Panel 4: Space and Place, Aesthetics and Style
Mareike Jenner (Anglia Ruskin University), “Sunshine Noir and 1980s Television”
Greg Keenan (University of Sheffield), “Blind History: Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)”
Lindsay Steenberg (Oxford Brookes University), “Transnational Television Noir”
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:30 Keynote 2: Warren Pleece
5:30 Wine Reception
A PDF copy of the programme, as well as full asbstracts and speaker information can be downloaded here.
Conference organisers:
Hannah Graves h.e.p.graves@warwick.ac.uk
Esther Wright e.wright.2@warwick.ac.uk