Further Adventures in Wonderland: The Afterlife of Alice
Thursday 1st December 2011
International Anthony Burgess Foundation
Cambridge Street
Manchester
United Kingdom
9.30-10.00 Registration
10.00-11.00 Plenary Paper
Dr. Will Brooker (Kingston University): The Further Adventures of Alice
Will Brooker is Reader and Director of Research in Film and Television at Kingston University, London. He is the author or editor of nine books, including Alice’s Adventures (Continuum 2003) and, most recently, Hunting the Dark Knight (I B Tauris, 2012). He is a regular film reviewer for the Times Higher Education magazine.
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 Panel 1: Adaptation and Literature
Laura-Jane Maher (Monash University): Taking Liberties: Adaptation and Transmedia Narrative in Frank Beddor’s The Looking Glass Wars
Hannah Priest (University of Manchester): Steampunk, Cyberpunk, Whimsy: Genre Definition and Jeff Noon’s The Automated Alice
Deidre Flynn (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick): Adventures in the Postmodern Wonderland
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.30 Panel 2: Performing Alice
Michael Goddard (University of Salford): Alice in Radioland: Radio Alice and the Movement of 77 Through the Looking Glass
Justine Houyaux and Neil Elliott Beisson (UMONS, Belgium): Waltz in Wonderland – Tom Waits and Alice
Guilia Sandelewski (Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham): Behind Bars and yet in Wonderland – Alice Refracts Hamlet, Reflects Italy’s Fractured Identity
3.30-4.00 Coffee
4.00-5.30 Panel 3: Alice at Play
Alexander Sergeant (King’s College London): Twas Brillig! Nonsense, Play and Inconsequentiality in Paramount’s Alice in Wonderland (1933)
David Allen (Midland Actors Theatre): Alice In Wonderland – The Disneyland Dark Ride
Franziska Kohlt (University of Sheffield): Into the X-Box and what Alice Found There: American McGee’s Alice: Madness Returns
5.30-6.00 Discussion and Closing Remarks
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