Silent Film Fandom and Celebrity Culture: Digital Methods for New Historiographies
Research workshop.
Programme
| 09:30 | Arrival | |
| 10:00 | Helle Kannik Haastrup & Annie Fee | Introduction: Silent Cinema Fandom and Celebrity Culture |
| 10:15 | Annie Fee (University of Lund/Oslo) | ParisCineCity: A Digital Map of Film Fandom and Activism in Silent-Era Paris |
| Jannie Dahl Astrup (Danish Film Institute) | A very public stroll through Gothenburg. Examining the making of a short promotional film starring Pat and Patachon | |
| Break (15 minutes) | ||
| Friederike Grimm (University of Marburg) | The Importing Asta Nielsen Database: A Tool for Digital Research on Early Film Star Fandom | |
| Casper Tybjerg (University of Copenhagen) | Film-Poet, Auteur, Master: Benjamin Christensen and the film director as star | |
| 12:30 | Lunch (invited delegates only) | |
| 13:30 | ||
| Maria Fosheim Lund (University of Oslo) | Aud Egede-Nissen and her ‘star-name’ company” | |
| Alice Alessandra Salamena (University of Köln) | Film – Fan – Feeling. (De-)Eroticizing the Star in Silent Film Fandom | |
| Break (15 minutes) | ||
| Helle Kannik Haastrup (University of Copenhagen) | “‘Do you look like a movie star?’”: Investigating the stardom of Asta Nielsen in 1920s Danish Silent Film Culture | |
| 15:15 | Helle Kannik Haastrup & Annie Fee | Concluding remarks |
The research workshop is open (though lunch is for invited delegates only).
You have to register to participate. Please write to Helle Kannik Haastrup.
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