Keynote speakers

 

 

 

Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. He is author of Film Remakes (Edinburgh UP, 2006) and co-author of Australian Film Theory and Criticism, Vol. I: Critical Positions (Intellect, 2013). His co-edited volumes include: Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (SUNY Press, 2010), Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions: Remake/Remodel (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), B Is for Bad Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value (SUNY Press, 2014), and US Independent Film After 1989: Possible Films (Edinburgh UP, 2015).

 

 

David Roche is Professor of Film Studies at the Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès. He is the author of Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don’t They Do It Like They Used To? (2014) and L’Imagination malsaine (2007), and the editor of Intimacy in Cinema: Critical Essays on English Language Films (with Isabelle Schmitt-Pitiot, 2014), Bande dessinée et adaptation (with Benoît Mitaine and Isabelle-Schmitt-Pitiot, 2014), Approaches to Film and Reception Theories (with Christophe Gelly, 2012) and Conversations with Russell Banks (2010). He has published articles on horror cinema, and Darren Aronofsky, Tim Burton, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Emir Kusturica, Sergio Leone, David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino.