Lunch Break
2:00-3:30
p.m. Remakes and the Questions
of Originality and Seriality
Chair:
Colin Harvey (London South Bank
University, UK)
- Stephanie Sommerfeld (University
of Göttingen, Germany), “Sherlock Bond and the Deerstalker”
- Amy Martin (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland), “A Battle on Two Fronts: Adapting the Adaptation”
- Birte Otten (University of
Göttingen, Germany),
“Remaking the Kingfish: All the King’s Men and the Question of
Originality”
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 p.m. The Look and Sound of Fan
Productions
Chair: Sibylle Machat (University of Flensburg, Germany)
- Mafalda Stasi (Coventry
University, UK),
“Aural Sex: Sound in
Fan Fiction from Filk to Podcasts”
- Martin Schlesinger (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany),
“Filming the Game:
Cinema of Video Game Attractions”
- Kyle Stedman (University of
South Florida, USA), “Remix Rhetoric in Videogame
Music and Lost Videos”
5:30-6:30
p.m. Reception
10:00-11:00 a.m. Keynote Lecture
Frank
Kelleter (University of Göttingen,
Germany), “Toto,
I think we're in Oz again (and again and again): Why Popular Culture Loves Repetition”
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 p.m. Remakes and Gender
Chair:
Mafalda Stasi (Coventry University,
UK)
- Katherine Farrimond (Newcastle University,
UK), “The Femme Fatale Who
Wasn’t There: Remaking the Deadly Noir Woman in Devil in a Blue Dress and
L.A.
Confidential”
- Kathryn Schweishelm (Ryerson and York
Universities in Toronto, Canada),
“Remaking The Stepford Wives, Remodeling Feminism: The Remake’s Value as
Barometer of Cultural Change”
Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 p.m. Remakes and U.S. Politics
Chair: Daniel Stein (University of Göttingen, Germany)
- Steffen Hantke (Sogang
University, Korea),
“Whose Legend Am I?:
Re-Imagining Richard Matheson's I Am Legend for the Bush Years”
- Marcel Hartwig (TU Chemnitz,
Germany), “Remaking
a Memory: National Catastrophes, Reel Traumata and Celluloid Regenerations”
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 p.m. The Cultural Work of Fan
Productions
Chair: Diana
Rosenhagen (University of Göttingen,
Germany)
- Miłosz Markocki (Nicolaus Copernicus University,
Poland),
“The Place of AMV
and Machinima in Mass Culture”
- Arne Brücks (Academy of Film and Television Potsdam, Germany),
“Adapting
Blockbusters: Fanfiction as Part of a Participatory Culture”
- Colin Harvey (London South
Bank University, UK),
“There Can Be Only One: Canon and Memory in the Writing of Highlander Spin-Off
Material”
6:30-8:00
p.m. City Tour of Göttingen
8:00 p.m. Conference Dinner
10:00-11:00 a.m. Keynote Lecture
Robin Reid
(Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA), “Remaking
Texts, Remodelling Scholarship”
Coffee Break
11:30-1:00
p.m. Transformational Aesthetics
of Fan Productions
Chair: Marcel Hartwig (TU
Chemnitz, Germany)
- Sibylle Machat (University of Flensburg,
Germany), “‘Prince Arthur spotted
exiting Buckingham
Palace!’ – The
Re-imagined Worlds of Fanfic Trailers”
- Lili Hartwig (University of
Hamburg, Germany),
“You’ll never see this on the silver screen!: The Film Trailer as a Template
for the Appropriation and Transformation of Hollywood Movies”
- Daniel Stein (University of Göttingen, Germany),
“Spoofin’ Spidey – Rebooting the Bat: Superheroes, Immersive Story Worlds, and
the Narrative Complexities of Fan Video Production”
Lunch Break
2:30-3:30
p.m. The Dynamics of
Repetition
Chair:
Steffen
Hantke (Sogang University, Korea)
- Sonja Georgi (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany), “Cyber-noia? Remaking The
Manchurian Candidate in a Global Age”
- Jason Scott (Leeds Trinity
University College, UK),
“Re-release, Redux or Remake: the Star Wars Special Editions as Low
Budget Updating and Revaluation”
Coffee Break
4:00-5:30 p.m. Cross-Cultural Remakes
Chair:
Arne Brücks (Academy of Film
and Television Potsdam, Germany)
- Metin Colak (Cyprus
International University, Cyprus),
“Growing-Up with
Remakes: Remakes and Turkish Cinema”
- Katja Föllmer (University of
Göttingen, Germany),
“Pretty Woman Iranian Style – A Comparative Analysis”
- Katarzyna Marak (Nicolaus Copernicus
University, Poland), “Translating Cultures:
Success and Failure with Gore Verbinsky’s The Ring and Jim Sonzero’s Pulse”
5:30-6:00 p.m. Concluding
Discussion
The conference will be hosted by the American Studies Division of the English Department at the University of Göttingen.
Contact: Kathleen.Loock@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Admission: 15,00 / 5,00 EUR