An AHRC project at the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Cultural and Creative Research
| 10:15 - 11:15 | Keynote address: Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway)
"Big Picture, Small Screen: Channel 4 and British Filmmaking" |
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| 11:15 - 12:15 |
Panel 1: Exploding the Canon - Chair: Andrew Spicer (UWE) "Missed, Lost and Forgotten Opportunities: Ping Pong and Soursweet" Felicia Chan (Manchester) & Andy Willis (Salford) "Forgotten Histories? Film on Four and British Retro and Heritage Films of the 1980s" Claire Monk (DMU) |
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| 13:00 - 14:30 | SCREENING: Visions anthology (introduced by John Ellis) | |
| 14:30 - 16:00 |
Panel 2: Channel 4 and Regional Film Culture - Chair: Mark Glancy (QMUL) "Babel and the Dragon’s Tongue: S4C and its Bilingual and Multilingual Films" Kate Woodward (Aberystwyth) "S4C, Channel 4 and Film" Elain Price (Swansea) "The Birmingham Film and TV Workshop and UK Film Culture" Yasmeen Baig-Clifford (Vivid); Paul Long (BCU); Roger Shannon (Edge Hill) |
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| 16:15 - 17:30 | Panel 3: Channel 4, Radicalism and the Press - Chair – Kate Woodward (Aberystwyth) "Vertigo Magazine –Tracking the Independent Voices of C4 in UK Film Culture" Holly Aylett (London Met) "Linking Archival and Academic Practice: The Digitisation of Channel 4’s Press Information Packs" Linda Kaye (British Universities Film and Video Council) & Rachael Keene (Portsmouth) |
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| 19:00 | Special Screening: My Beautiful Laundrette (1985). Prior to the screening, Hanif Kureishi was in conversation with Sir Jeremy Isaacs. Followed by drinks reception. | |