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Tuesday 1st July

Session 1: 11.30 – 13.00

a.) Men and popular cinema

Peter Hutchings	Brian Clemens and the Thriller
Sarah MacGregor	British Working-Class Men on Screen
Adam Locks	The Films of Norman J. Warren

b.) Social Space

Jo Turney	British Domestic Interiors
Tim Gough	The Decline of Architectural Modernism
Elizabeth Tuson	Brutalism and the "Reformist Illusion"

Session 2: 14.00 – 15.30

a.) Race

Gavin Schaffer	Till Death do us Part
Sally Shaw	"God is a White Man": Black British Cinema
Paul Newland	Filming Babylon

b.) Youth Subcultures

Dave Allen	Middle-Class Mods: Quadrophenia and Popular Histories
Howard Batho and Rosemary Harden	1977: Punk Fashion
Claire Monk	The Punk and Post-Punk Female

Wednesday 2nd July

Session 3: 09.30 – 11.00

a.) Stars

Robert Shail	Roger Moore: a New Bond for a New Decade
Esther Sonnet	The British "Ageing Actress" Cycle
Claire Hines	Camp and the Performance of Masculinity in Bond Films

b.) Music

Chris Martin	Music in 1970s British Cinema
John Izod et al	Alan Price's Role in O Lucky Man
Raphael Thoene	Malcolm Arnold’s The Three Musketeers

Session 4: 11.30 – 13.00

a.) Women filmmakers/artists

Patti Gaal-Holmes	Considering Thriller and Light Reading
Catherine Fowler	Sally Potter and Other Women Artists
Sean Kaye-Smith	Jane Arden

b.) Print Media

Stephen Hill	Smash Hits
James Chapman	2000 AD and British Comics Culture
Laurel Forster	Female Identities in Women's Magazines

Session 5: 14.00 - 15.30

a.) Exploitation and censorship

Peri Bradley	High Camp and Soft Porn
Sian Barber	Vampires and Window Cleaners: Censoring the 1970s
Julian Petley	A Strutting Pantomime: Russell's The Devils

b.) Marxist theory and practice

Peter Billingham	Revolutionising Tragedy: Edward Bond's Lear
Anthony Dunn	Aesthetics and Politics: Williams and Marcuse
Rochelle Simmons	John Berger's Revolutionary Narratives

Session 6: 16.00 - 17.30

a.) Avant-garde ART

Gilliam Whiteley	Welfare State International
Kirsten Forkert	Artists and the Labour Movement

b.) Popular Culture

Julian Matthews	John Craven's Newsround
Keith Johnston	Remembering The Wombles
Peter Burleigh and Andrea Ochsner	1970s British sitcom

c.) Presentation and short film showing

Steve Chibnall

Nowhere Else to Go: The Death of the Travelogue. Harold Baim's Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth

Thursday 3rd July

Session 7: 09.30 – 11.00

a.) Authorship

Adrian Garvey	Ken Russell's The Boy Friend
David Sorfa	The Devils and Kawalerowcz's Mother Joan of the Angels
Denis Rothermel	Losey's First Four Post-Pinter Films

b.) Avant-garde FILM

William Fowler	Artists' Super 8 in the 1970s
Jack Newsinger	The Amber Film Collective
Duncan White	Expanded cinema

Session 8: 11.30 – 13.00

a.) Production and Marketing

Andrew Spicer	Michael Klinger and the Role of the Film Producer
Dylan Cave	Understanding the BFI's 1970s Trailer Collection

b.) Media and Social Movements

Sean Tunney	Attitudes to Newspaper Ownership
Gwilym Thear	The Self-Sufficiency Movement
David McQueen	1970s Current affairs – a Golden Age?