 John Huston |
The lineup of screenings, talks and discussions for the forthcoming John Huston Centenary Conference (23 – 24 November) has been announced. The Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway will host the two day event dedicated to the work of the legendary director.
John Huston (1906 – 1987) directed 41 films over 46 years and was much celebrated by his peers and associates but the Huston Film School believes he has been under-represented in critical literature. The aim of the conference is to redress such neglect and provide a forum for as wide a consideration of his contribution to cinema as possible. It is intended that the proceedings from the conference will be published.
The lineup includes:
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 22nd
7.00 PM Screening: ‘The African Queen’ Galway Omniplex Screen 10
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 23rd
9:00 – 9.30 AM Rregistration
9.30 Welcome
9.40 – 11.10 Panel 1: Adaptations Page Laws (Norfolk State University) King Adapter: John Huston's Famous/Infamous Film Adaptations of Literary Classics
Ruth Barton (University College Dublin) Adapting Moby Dick
Diog O’Connell (Dun Laoghaire Instit. of Art, Design & Technology) Moby Dick and the Irish Film Industry
11:30 – 1.00 Panel 2: Film Readings I
Antonio Martinez and Pablo Echart (University of Navarra) Personal Voice and Romantic Tradition in The African Queen
Victoria Amador (Heriot-Watt University) “The Melodramatic Conscience in In this Our Life”
Martha Frago (University of Navarre) “The Dead: In Search of Cinematic Epiphany”
2:00 - 3:30 Panel 3: Film, Politics and Engagement
Scott McKenzie (University of St Andrews) “‘Indie’ avant le letter: John Huston and the Genesis of American Independent Cinema”
Reynold Humphries (Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3) “Ethical commitment and political dissidence: Huston, HUAC, Hollywood and the historical place of Key Largo”
Roddy Flynn (Dublin City University) The Huston Report
3:45 – 4:45 KEYNOTE 1: Patrick McGilligan
7:00 Dinner at St Clerans (John Huston’s house in Craughwell, Co. Galway)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 24TH
9:30 – 10:30 Panel 4: Border Crossings
Richard Vela (The University of North Carolina at Pembroke) John Huston’s Mexico
Lesley Brill (Wayne State Univeristy) The Western, The Westerner, The Westernest: Wyler, Menippean Satire, and Huston's The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.
10:45 – 11:45 Panel 5: Representations
Alan Marcus (University of Manchester) The Unforgiven: John Huston’s Interracial Conflict
Paul Davies (University of Passau, Germany) Win some, lose some: Race and Gender in White Hunter, Black Heart and The African Queen
11:45-12:45 Keynote 2: Luke Gibbons (Notre Dame University) 'Ghostly Lights: Joyce, Huston and 'The Dead'
1:40 - 3:15 Panel 6: Myths and Misfits
Harvey O’Brien (University College Dublin) John Huston: Man and Myth or the Quest for the White Whale
Vincent Lowny (Université de Haute Alsace (Mulhouse)) Humour and Melancholy: Old Age in the films of John Huston
Remi Astruc (Université Nancy2, France) The Misfits: When the Myths no Longer Fit
3:30 – 4:45 Panel 7: Film Readings 2
Peter Christensen (Cardinal Stritch University, Milwaukee) "A Walk with Love and Death: From the Jacquerie of 1358 to the Turbulence of 1968"
Neil Sinyard (University of Hull) ‘Better a live coward than a dead hero’: Key Largo and Post-War America
5:00 - 6:00 Keynote 3: Joseph McBride
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 25th
9:00 Screening: ‘The Dead’ Galway Omniplex Screen 7
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