Program of events
Thursday October 9th, 2014
9h-9h30 : Registration and coffee, GRIC office
9h30-9h45 : Opening remarks, Sarah Hatchuel (director, GRIC)
SESSION 1 – Genres and gender codes in the remake
Chair : Claire Maniez (Université Stendhal Grenoble III)
9h45-10h15
Mehdi ACHOUCHE (Université Lyon 3) Reboots and TV series: Remakes on the Small Screen
10h15-10h45
Hélene MACHINAL (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) Adaptation and Variation, the Dynamics of Gender in Sherlock, a New Sleuth for the 21st Century
Discussion and questions
11h-11h15 Coffee break
SESSION 2 – The remake as site for genderbending
Chair : Sarah Hatchuel (Université du Havre)
11h15-11h45
Agathe TORTI-ALCAYAGA (Université Paris 13) La Cage aux Folles/The Birdcage : Of Gowns and Mustachios
11h45-12h15
Dennis TREDY (Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle) « Kind of a Drag »: Genderbending in early 1970s sitcoms adapted from film and literature (with special focus on The Odd Couple and M*A*S*H)
12h15-12h45 Claire CORNILLON (Université Paris 13) Genderbending, vidding and the remake
Discussion and questions
13h-14h15 Lunch on the university premises
14h15-15h
Keynote conference, Constantine VEREVIS (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
Contemporary Issues in Cinematic Remaking
Discussion and questions
SESSION 3 – Transcultural remakes and gender
Chair : Sylvaine Bataille (Université de Rouen)
15h15-15h45
Agnieszka RASMUS (Institute of English, University of Łódź, Poland) Genre and Gender in Hollywood remakes of British films
15h45-16h15
Karima THOMAS (IUT Angers) Remakes of The Bridge, dividing lines and meeting points: from the national heritage to transnational aspirations
16h15-16h30 Coffee break
16h30-17h
Jennifer GORDON (University of Lincoln, School of Media) American Reinvention: Nordic Noir and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Fincher, 2011).
Discussion and questions
End Day 1
20h : Conference dinner in town
Friday October 10
8h30-9h : Coffee at the GRIC office
9h-9h45
Keynote conference, David ROCHE (Université Toulouse II Jean-Jaures)
Remaking Horror According to the Feminists or How to Eat Your Cake and Have It, Too: The Case of I Spit on Your Grave (Meir Zarchi, 1978 and Steven R. Monroe, 2010)
Discussion and questions
SESSION 4 – Gender issues in the horror remake
Chair: David Roche (Université Toulouse II Jean-Jaures)
10h-10h30
Jonathan FRUOCO (Université Stendhal Grenoble III) The Wicker Man (1973-2006): To the Devil, a Daughter
10h30-11h
Gilles MENEGALDO (Université de Poitiers) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Rouben Mamoulian 1932 and Victor Fleming 1941): The paradoxes of a remake
11h-11h15: Coffee break
11h15-11h45
Elizabeth MULLEN (Université de Bretagne Occidentale) Palimpsestuous relationships and textually transmitted dis-ease : Remaking The Body Snatchers (1956, 1978, 1993 and 2007)
Discussion and questions
12h-13h30: Lunch on the university premises
SESSION 5 – Remaking the masculine/the feminine
Chair: Donna Spalding Andréolle (Université du Havre)
13h30-14h
Barbara DUPONT (Université Catholique de Louvain/IHECS) Emotions can get you killed, bury them: Women of power in V
14h-14h30
Kathleen LOOCK (Freie Universität Berlin) Inventing Norman’s Mom: Storyworld expansion and unfinished business in Bates Motel
14h30-15h
Cyril BESSON (Université Stendhal Grenoble III) Of androids and women: Sexual warfare in the Robocop franchise
Discussion and questions
15h15-15h30: Coffee break
15h30-16h
Cristelle MAURY (Université Toulouse II Le Mirail) Body Heat (1981) or the crisis of masculinity
16h-16h30
Shannon WELLS-LASSAGNE (Université Bretagne sud) Adapting desire: Wives, prostitutes and small folk in Game of Thrones
Discussion and questions
End Day 2