Film2010 Programme Schedule

Registration and coffee

The Home Front on Film

A programme of rare footage from the Imperial War Museum, the Scottish Screen Archive, North West Film Archive and others, presented and interpreted by Toby Haggith, Jane Fish, Paul Sargent, Kay Gladstone, Janet McBain and Marion Hewitt

Tea

Film, Memory and the Second World War

A roundtable discussion featuring the film directors John Boorman and Kevin Brownlow, chaired by Annette Kuhn

 Reception 

Plenary: Penny Summerfield (Manchester), All at sea: Gender, class, nation and the
memory of the maritime war in British films, 1939–60

The War at the Box Office since 1945

Andrew Spicer (UWE), Secret histories and the dirty war: The 1970s Second World War film
James Chapman (Leicester), British cinema and the pleasure culture of war
SP Mackenzie (University of South Carolina), Home runs from the Reich: British POW feature films of the 1950s

Cinema-going in Wartime

Sue Harper (Portsmouth), The Portsmouth papers: Questions of method in audience research
Richard Farmer (UCL), A temporarily vanished civilisation: Sweets, ice cream and wartime cinema-going
Charles Barr (University College Dublin), ‘Much pleasure and relaxation in these hard times’: Churchill and cinema in World War Two

Wartime Films

Mark Roodhouse (York), In Racket Town: Gangster chic in austerity Britain
David Eldridge (Hull), British wartime audiences and the American way of life
Jo Fox (Durham), ‘I have got too much to bother about … without having to bother about being a woman’: Women in British non-fiction film production, 1939–45
Melanie Williams (UEA), Betty Grable: An American icon in Britain, 1939–45

Conference closes