DAY 1 (28 May, 2015)
The Ritz Cinema and Theatre

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8.30: REGISTRATION OPENS
(Refreshments in the Ritz foyer)

9.15-9.30: Opening remarks

9:30-11.00: Keynote 1
(Chair: Neil Jackson)

• The Psychogeography of British Trash Cinema: New Maps of the Field in England. I. Q. Hunter, De Montfort University, UK.

COFFEE BREAK (30 MINS)


11.30-13.00: PANEL A: Exploitation and home video
(Chair: Tom Watson)

• Grindigital: The Ghost of Grindhouse Present. Steve Jones, University of Northumbria.
  
• VIPCO, “Shitco” and the Changing Face of Exploitation. Mark McKenna, Glyndwr University.
  
• ‘You’ve never seen anything like…’: The Criterion Collection’s Conceptions of Global Cult and Exploitation. Kate Egan, Aberystwyth University.
  

LUNCH: Ritz foyer (60 mins)


14.00-15.30: PANEL B:  B-movies and surrounding critical discourse
(Chair: Shaun Kimber)

• Bollywood B-Movies: Cult Cosmopolitanism and the Reception of Indian Cult Cinema in the West. Iain Robert Smith, University of Roehampton.
  
• Knowing the Unknown Beyond: New Italian Horror Cinema. Johnny Walker, Northumbria University.
• “Pure, unadulterated crap” or a “pleasant surprise”: The Films of Edward D Wood Jr, Post-1960. Rebecca Bartlett, University of Glasgow.
  

BREAK (15 MINS)


15.45-17.30: PANEL C: Exploitation, Japanese style (Chair: Emma Pett)

• Exploitation in Japan: Ero Guro Nansensu and Japanese Horror Cinema. Rachel Barraclough & Dave McCaig, University of Lincoln, UK
•  Ōru kaijū dai shingeki (All monsters attack!): The regional and transnational exploitation of the kaijū eiga. Steven Rawle, York St John University, UK
• Japan’s  1970s  Violent  chicks:  Tōei  ‘pinky  violence’  films  and  the  Japanese sexploitation turn in the 1960s/1970s.  Laura Treglia, University of Chester, UK
• The global influence of Zatoichi, the blind Japanese swordsman – or, Move Over, Shogun Assassin. Jonathan Wroot, University of Worcester, UK

20:00: Conference Dinner in Lincoln City Centre

DAY 2 (29 May, 2015)
The Ritz Cinema and Theatre

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9.00: REGISTRATION OPENS
(Refreshments in the Ritz foyer)

9.30-11.00: PANEL D: Indonesian exploitation cinema
(Chair: Austin Fisher)

• “The Real Guilty Pleasure”: Lady Terminator¸ Media Reception, and Public Censorship in Indonesia. Ekky Imanjaya (UEA)
• Exploiting sex in 1990s Indonesian cinema; beyond a strategy for survival Ben Murtagh (SOAS)

COFFEE BREAK (30 MINS)


11.30-13.00: Keynote 2
(Chair: Johnny Walker)

• Exploitation and the Empirical Imperative. Eric Schaefer, Emerson College, Boston US.
  

LUNCH: Ritz foyer (60 mins)


14.00-15.30: PANEL E: Selling and seeing exploitation in the sixties
(Chair: Kate Egan)

• Memories of Sexploitation Cinema in 1960s Britain. Emma Pett, University College London.
  
• E. J. Fancey's Exotic Thrills: Selling global exploitation in 1960s Britain. Adrian Smith, Sussex University.
  

BREAK (15 mins)


15.45-17.30: PANEL F: New exploitation histories
(Chair: Iain Robert Smith)

• Bigger than a Payphone, Small than a Cadillac: John Holmes and Porn Stardom in Exhausted (1981). Neil Jackson, University of Lincoln.
• Sagebrush and Sadism: Charting the Development of American Exploitation Westerns During the 1960s. Lee Broughton, University of Leeds.

• Lost Histories: Late-career Mainstream Stars Working in Exploitation Cinema. Sarah Thomas, Aberystwyth University.
  
  

17.30: Closing remarks.

Drinks in Lincoln City Centre