Held live on Saturday, 11 March, 2023, this second annual HORROR REVERIE symposium on The Exorcist features three panels on topics including production history, actor histories, religious and political contexts, paratexts and transmedial iterations, and more. Panelists include actors, filmmakers, film historians, and horror media scholars.
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Co-sponsored by the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC), the Montréal Monstrum Society and Monstrum, and the Moving Image Research Lab, with support from the Fonds de recherche du Quebec, société et culture.
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Co-sponsored by the Collective for Research on Epistemologies of Embodied Risk (CORÉRISC), the Montréal Monstrum Society and Monstrum, and the Moving Image Research Lab, with support from the Fonds de recherche du Quebec, société et culture.
THIS ONLINE EVENT IS FREE. Click the link below to register.
An image from the opening of the Exorcist in 1974 (source: https://captainhowdy.com).
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAM
11:00 – 11:10 (EST*) — Welcome / Opening Remarks
Kristopher Woofter 11:10 – 11:55 — Panel 1: Historical and Other Contexts Chair: Stacey Abbott Speakers: Amy C. Chambers, Steve Choe, LMK Sheppard 12:00 – 12:50 — Panel 2: Actress Eileen Dietz and Filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe in Conversation with Anna Bogutskaya Provocateur : Anna Bogutskaya Speakers: Eileen Dietz, Alexandre O. Philippe 1:00 – 1:50 — Panel 3: Paratexts and Legacy Chair: Lorna Piatti-Farnell Speakers: Simon Brown, Stella Gaynor, Michael Lee 1:50 – 2:00: Closing Remarks * All times are Eastern Standard Time (EST).
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RIGHT: View the trailer for Alexandre O. Philippe's 2019 documentary Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist.
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A new paperback version of The Films of William Friedkin by Steve Choe is coming from Edinburgh University Press's ReFocus series in May 2023.
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SPEAKERS
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ALEXANDRE O. PHILIPPE
Throughout a body of work that includes The People vs. George Lucas (SXSW 2010), 78/52 (Sundance 2017), and Memory: The Origins of Alien (Sundance 2019), Alexandre O. Philippe's films take on the role of unpacking the most influential works of master filmmakers, and dissecting seminal screen moments. Recent works include Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (Venice 2019, Sundance 2020), The Taking (BFI London 2021), and Lynch/Oz (Tribeca 2022). His latest, You Can Call Me Bill, an intimate portrait of icon William Shatner, will premiere in the Documentary Spotlight section at SXSW in March 2023. EILEEN DIETZ Actress Eileen Dietz appeared as the face of the demon in The Exorcist, and had many roles television and independent film, including James McBride's David Holzman's Diary (1967). Visit her website here. ________________________________________________________
ANNA BOGUTSKAYA is a writer, programmer and podcaster. She writes for BBC Culture, The Guardian, MUBI, The Face, TimeOut, amongst others, and programmes for BFI, Edinburgh and Fantastic Fest. She hosts The Final Girls podcast and contributes to many others. Her first book, Unlikeable Female Characters, comes out in May 2023. SIMON BROWN is a horror scholar and Associate Professor of Film and Television at Kingston University. Recent publications include Screening Stephen King: Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television (University of Texas Press, 2018) and Creepshow (Devil’s Advocate, 2019). He is currently researching a monograph on British horror author James Herbert. AMY C. CHAMBERS (amycchambers.com/@AmyCChambers) is a Senior Lecturer in Film and Media Studies in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research examines intersections of entertainment media and the public understanding of science. Recent publications explore: COVID-19 and viral virus movies; 1990s dinomania; medical horror in The Exorcist (1973); representation of women scientists and expertise in film and TV; socio-technoscientific imaginaries and SF literature; and women-directed horror and SF cinema. She is currently co-editing the collection PUSH! Childbirth in Global Screen Culture, and co-authoring a monograph called Reading Science Fiction: Sociality, Publics and Pleasures ORCiD: 0000-0002-3801-3582. STEVE CHOE is Associate Professor of Critical Studies in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University. He is the author of Afterlives: Allegories of Film and Mortality in Early Weimar Germany (2014), Sovereign Violence: Ethics and South Korean Cinema in the New Millennium (2016), ReFocus: The Films of William Friedkin (2021), and is a co-editor of Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politics in East Asia (2019). Dr. STELLA MARIE GAYNOR is Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communcation at Liverpool John Moores University, and is author of Rethinking Horror in the New Economies of Television. Her research and publication explores horror, television and digital media industries, true crime, and podcasting, and she is co-host of And Now The Podcast Starts. MICHAEL LEE is a professor of musicology at the University of Oklahoma. His most recent book is Music in the Horror Films of Val Lewton with Edinburgh University Press. He is a lifelong horror fan and researcher on horror film music. He is also a founding editor of Horror Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. LMK SHEPPARD is an independent scholar and author of Faith Horror: Visions of Satanism, Paganism and Witchcraft 1966 to 1978 (2022). Her research on the connections between supernatural spirituality and the horror cinema have appeared in Film Journal and edited collections including Scared Sacred, Gender and the Contemporary Horror Film, and an upcoming compendium focusing on American Horror Story. She is also the founder and chief researcher of Hallowed Histories, an internationally successful podcast. She lives in Norwich, Norfolk with her husband, daughter and cat, Howie. |
ORGANIZERS
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Stacey Abbott is Emerita Professor in Film and Television (University of Roehampton) and is the author of Celluloid Vampires (The University of Texas Press 2007), Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century (EUP 2016), and co-author with Lorna Jowett of TV Horror: The Dark Side of the Small Screen (IB Tauris 2012). She is currently a freelance writer/lecturer, specialising in the horror and gothic genres.
Mark Jancovich is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of East Anglia, and the author of many books and articles on horror and the moving image. Lorna Piatti-Farnell is Professor of Film, Media, and Cultural Studies at the Auckland University of Technology. Gary D. Rhodes is a Professor of Media Production at the Oklahoma Baptist University and the author of The Birth of the American Horror Film (Edinburgh UP, 2018) and many other books on horror and early cinema. Kristopher Woofter, PhD, teaches courses on horror and the Weird traditions in literature and the moving image at Dawson College in Montréal, Québec, Canada. He is Editor-in-Chief of Monstrum and editor of the recent books Shirley Jackson: A Companion (Peter Lang, 2021) and American Twilight: The Cinema of Tobe Hooper, co-edited with Will Dodson (U. of Texas Press, 2021). Visit his horror studies research hub, The Hauntologist. |
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