Conference Programme

Thursday 24th July: Day 1

9 - 10am

Registration

10am

Introduction by Charles Drazin and Peter Evans

10.15am

Anthony Reeves, trustee of the David Lean Foundation
Anthony Reeves will give a brief introduction to the work of the David Lean Foundation

10.30am

Linda Kaye, Senior Researcher, British Universities Film & Video Council
David Lean and the Newsreels (1930-1931)

11am

Mark Glancy, Queen Mary, University of London
David Lean and Noel Coward: Authorship and In Which We Serve

11.30am

Jeremy Hicks, Queen Mary, University of London
In Which We Serve... The Story of a Ship...Those Who Serve at Sea: The International Reception of David Lean's Directorial Début

12.00pm

Sarah Street, Bristol University
In Blushing Technicolor: The Use of Colour in Blithe Spirit

12.30

Lunch

1.30pm

Brian McFarlane, Monash University, Victoria, Australia
David Lean Adaptor: Filming Coward and Dickens in the 1940s

2.30pm

Robert Murphy, De Montfort University
Lean Noir: Dark Passions in the Films of David Lean

3pm

Melanie Williams, Hull University
An Unfortunate Conjugation of Restraints? The David Lean/Ann Todd films

3.30pm

Tea

4pm

Adrian Garvey, Birkbeck, University of London
Two Films with Ann Todd :The Passionate Friends and Madeleine

4.30pm

Kevin Brownlow, Photoplay Productions
David Lean and the Silent Cinema

 

Friday, 25th July: Day 2

9 - 10am

Registration

10am

Sonia Genaitray, Fiction Curator; Kieron Webb, Technical Project Officer & Ben Thompson, Senior Image Quality Specialist, BFI National Archive
The Restoration of David Lean's First Ten Films

10.30am

Leila Wimmer, London Metropolitan University
David Lean and his French Critics

11am

Steven Chibnall, De Montfort University:
The Lonely Passion of Jane Hudson: Filming and Falling in the Venetian Summertime

11.30am

Break

12pm

Aidan Power, University of Cork
Spatial Relationships: Female sexuality in the Cinema of David Lean

12.30pm

Mehdi Derfoufi, Université de Paris III:
Crisis of the Hero : the Utopian Narrative Tested by Modernity

1 -2pm

Lunch

2pm

Janet Moat, Head of Special Collections, BFI Library
The Role of the Archivist in Film History: The David Lean Collection

2.30pm

Jonathan Stubbs, University of East Anglia
The Importance of Seeming British: Lawrence of Arabia, the Eady Levy and the Board of Trade

3.00pm

Ian Christie, Birkbeck, University of London
The Contribution to Lean's Films of the Production Designer John Box.

3.30pm

Philippe Quinconneau, film-maker
Britishness in David Lean

4pm

Break

4.30pm

Robin Rowland, author of A River Kwai Story
The Reception of The Bridge on the River Kwai among Former Far East Prisoners of War

5pm

Prof. Raphaelle Costa de Beauregard, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail
The Use of Chiaroscuro in Oliver Twist

5.30pm

Andrea Sabbadini, The Institute of Psychoanalysis
Inner Conflict and Emotional Pain: A Psychoanalytic View of Brief Encounter (1945)