Friday March 20 2009, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading, UK

Keynote Speaker – Andrew Klevan, (St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford) – Living Meaning: The Fluidity of Film Performance

This one-day symposium seeks to provide a forum for scholars of screen acting to meet and progress the spate of recent work on performance on film. We would like to explore how we draw out performance through an interrogation of the relationship between performance, inference and interpretation.

Confirmed speakers so far:

Professor John Adams, University of Bristol - Re-producing screen performance

Professor Martin Barker, University of Aberystwyth - How do audiences evaluate acting on screen? A case study using The Usual Suspects

Dr. Alex Clayton, University of Bristol - Acting to Save the World: Team America, Comedy and Performance

Dr. Kathrina Glitre, University of the West of England – Still Acting: Doing nothing as an acting choice

David Morrison, King’s College, London – Performing Loneliness

Ronan Paterson, University of Teesside – A Little Touch of Harry in the Night: An Exploration of the Contrasting acting Styles of Laurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh in their respective films of Shakespeare’s Henry V

Dr. Steven Peacock, University of Hertfordshire – Placing Gesture in Film

Professor Victor F. Perkins, University of Warwick – The Eloquence of Bad Acting

Dr. Sarah Thomas, University of Aberystwyth – The Return of the ‘Repressive’: producing and consuming contrasting modes of performance in Classical Hollywood cinema and The Best Years of Lives

A full programme will follow shortly

Registration now open – deadline 27th February 2009 (Early bird rate until 30th Jan)

Registration forms and further information for the symposium will be available soon from our website: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ftt/research/ftt-actingout.asp

In the meantime, please contact the organisers – Ceri Hovland & Lucy Fife Donaldson – for a registration form, or any further enquiries, at actingout@reading.ac.uk