COLD WAR SPY FILM MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PROJECT
Conference Schedule
Kiss Kiss Kill Kill: A Symposium on the Forgotten Spy Film of Cold War Europe
Conference Schedule: Saturday 18th September
10am Registration – Coffee and Tea (Art and Design Gallery)
10.45 Conference Welcome – Richard Rhys Davies
(Room LC 108)
11.0 Keynote (Room LC108) – Matt Blake
(Author, The Eurospy Guide)
“Eurospy – A Numerical Analysis of an Italian
Genre”
11.45 Break – Coffee and Tea
12.00 - 1.30 Panel 1 (Room LC 108):
Real Life Spies: Cold War, German Espionage and Italian Cops
Chair: Nikolaj Nikitin (Co-Founder Schnitt Magazine)
Oliver Baumgarten (Co-Founder Schnitt Magazine)
Espionage Cinema and the Celluloid Curtain
Matthew Shaul (Head of Programming and Operations, University of Hertfordshire Galleries)
Eurospy’s Tawdry Underbelly: Photographer Gundula Schulze Eldowy and the East German Secret Police
Dr Austin Fisher (Anglia Ruskin University)
Chronicles of Lead: Transatlantic Flow in 1970s Italian Cop Thrillers
1.30- 2.30 LUNCH
2.30-3.30 Panel 2: (Room LC 108)
Eurospy: Kitsch and Transnational Appropriation
Chair: Richard Rhys Davies (Curator Kiss Kiss Kill Kill)
Iain Robert Smith (Roehampton University)
“You’re really a miniature Bond”: Weng Weng and the transnational dimensions of cult film stardom
Ibrahim Cansizoglu (Izmir University of Economics)
Genre Smasher: A Popular Culture Analysis of Turkish B Rate Film with Espionage Themes
3.30 Break: Coffee/Tea
3.45 Keynote (Room LC 108):
Richard Rhys Davies
(Curator, Kiss Kiss Kill Kill)
“The European-ness of Eurospy: Myth, Motif and
Mayhem in Western European Spy Cinema.”
5.00-7.00 Film Screening (Film and TV Studio)
Danger Route (16mm archive print, Seth Holt, 1967)
Print