DRAMATISING DISASTER
Event, Spectacle, Narrative, Character Study Day UEA School of Film and Television Studies
Wednesday 9th November, Congregation Hall 0.17

9:45am – WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION – Dr Christine Cornea

10:00-11:15 – PERSONAL IDENTITY AND DISASTER
Hannah Ellison, ‘High School is a Battlefield for Your Heart: Teen Networks' Obsession with Apocalyptic Drama.’
Liz Powell, ‘Diagnosis Disaster: Cultural Narratives of Cancer and Female Identity in Stepmom and The Family Stone.’
Rhys Owain Thomas, ‘Queering Disaster: Re-categorising Life and Death in Torchwood: Miracle Day.’

-BREAK-

11:30-1:10 – REPRESENTING THE AFTERMATH: NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS Sophie Halliday, ‘“Catastrophic Beauty”: New York as a Site of Urban Warfare in Contemporary Video Games.’
Stephen Mitchell, ‘(Re)constructing the Twin Towers: Man on Wire and the Traumatic Aesthetics of 9/11.’
Nina Mickwitz, ‘After the Deluge: Everyday Tactics and Representational Strategies in a Time of Crisis.’
Ed Clough, ‘Duelling and Jammin': The Satisfactions of Treme.’

-LUNCH-

2:00-3:40pm – INTERNATIONAL DISASTER AND CONFLICT
Elizabeth Rawitsch, ‘“A Free World and a Slave World”: Frank Capra, National Ideology, and the Fractured Far East in The Battle of China.’
Jonathan Wroot, ‘Why Japan Sank in 1973 and 2006.’
Peter Krämer, ‘“Mein Führer, I can walk!”: The Multiple Catastrophes of Dr. Strangelove.’ Steph Fuller, ‘“They are no longer aliens. They are residents”: Alien Invasion and National Identity in Monsters.’

-BREAK-

4:00-5:15 – END TIMES IN APOCALYPTIC CINEMA
Dr Vincent M. Gaine, ‘The End of the World as We Know It - which is? Ethics and the End in The Day After Tomorrow.’
Heather Wintle, ‘Can Taboo Survive the Apocalypse? Children in the Crosshairs and Problems of Narrative Resolution in The Road and The Mist.’
Tony Degouveia, ‘Disaster and Determinism.’

5:15pm - END OF PANELS

6:00pm – CHARITY SCREENING, ARTS 01.01
20th Century Boys (Yukihiko Tsutsumi, Japan, 2008)
Introduced by Dr Rayna Denison: ‘Japan’s New Disaster Movies before the 2011 Earthquake.’
All donations will go to Akai Hane Disaster Relief for the Japan Earthquake