LA CORRUPTION AU CINEMA

27e congrès international de la CERCIA « La corruption au cinéma »

Responsables scientifiques : Christophe Gelly (CELIS), Caroline Lardy (CHEC)

Mercredi 7 SEPTEMBRE 2022
ACCUEIL DES PARTICIPANTS /
REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE OPENING:
9H30-10H30

10h30-12h30
PANELS
PANEL 1

Corruption and genre
Chair: Gilles MENEGALDO

• Cristelle MAURY, Corruption in Winter’s Bone (Debra Granik, 2010)
• Isabelle SCHMIDT-PITIOT, Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), a case study for genre corruption
• Julie ASSOULY, From The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Coen, 2018) to The French Dispatch (Anderson 2021), the episodic return of a corrupt form: anthology films
• Sven WEIDNER, Corrupt male characters in the postmodern cosmos of the Coen-Brothers

PANEL 2

Corruption and society
Chair: Mikael TOULZA

• Damien ROUSSELIÈRE, Chew bubblegum or kick ass? Carpenter’s films as thought experiments on the sociology of situated judgments
• Argyrios KELERIS, Body ideals, material degeneration and the cult of remembrance in Todd Haynes’s Superstar
• Yann ROBLOU, “With great power comes great responsibility”—how are superheroes connected to corruption?
• Vincent JAUNAS, In defense of Impurity: M. Night Shyamalan’s aesthetics of corruption

Discussion – Pause déjeuner – Buffet /
Panel debate – Lunch break (12h30-14h00)

14h00-16h00
PANELS
PANEL 3

Corruption and horror
Chair: Céline MURILLO

• Gilles MENEGALDO, Corruption, mutations et hybridation des corps dans le cinéma d’horreur dans The Thing et Prince of Darkness de John Carpenter et The Fly de David Cronenberg.
• Pablo GÓMEZ-MUÑOZ, Hunting Humans: Metaphors of Moral Corruption across National Boundaries
• Julia ECHEVERRIA, The Corruption of the Body: Black Female Zombie in The Girl with All the Gifts
• Mikaël TOULZA, “You Can’t Kill People with Voodoo, That’s Ridiculous!”: Black Women Directors’ Takes on Corrupted Representations of Louisiana Voodoo

PANEL 4 [begins 13’30]

Corruption and society
Chair: Cristelle MAURY

• Raphaëlle COSTA DE BEAUREGARD, The corrupting law of capitalism ‘Time is money’ VS the incorruptibility of Time: Stanley Kubrick’s gangster film The Killing (1956)
• Dominique SIPIERE, Du bonheur de la corruption.
• Celestino DELEYTO et María del Mar AZCONA, Cosmopolitanism as Productive Corruption: Hollywood Goes to Marseille in Stillwater
• Marine SOUBEILLE, Corruption in Dallas – J.R. Ewing and the end of the American Dream

Pause 16h00-16h30

16h30-17h30 – Conférence de / Keynote conference : Martine BEUGNET
Chairs: Christophe Gelly & Caroline Lardy

Jeudi 8 SEPTEMBRE 2022

9h00- 10h30
PANELS
PANEL 5

Corruption and the filmic form
Chair: Julia ECHEVERRIA

• Janica TOMIĆ, This is the Hell that Lars von Trier Built: the Function and Corruption of the Cinematic Tableau
• Patrick ADAMSON, Fractured Flickers (1963-4): Comic Corruptions of the Silent Screen
• Sébastien LEFAIT, Surveillance on screen: exposing the corruptibility of image regimes

PANEL 6

Bodies and corruption
Chair: Vincent JAUNAS

• Guilhem BILLAUDEL, Corrupted Bodies and Images in Space Travel: Solitude as Illusory Purity in The Martian and High Life
• Pablo CABEZA-MACUSO, Le personnage télévisuel dédoublé : le cas du « double-profané » — Corps corrompus, personnages sacrifiés, et identité-costume
• Jocelyn DUPONT, Culture, Corruption and their Post-Wildean Variations

Discussion / Panel debate – Pause (10h30-11h)

11h00-12h30 – Conférence de / Keynote conference : Tricia JENKINS
Chairs : Christophe Gelly & Caroline Lardy
Pause déjeuner-Buffet / Lunch break (12h30-14h00)
14h00-15h30
PANELS

PANEL 7

Corruption and the filmic form
Chair: Patrick ADAMSON

• Andrea VIRGINÁS, ‘Corrupting’ the Past through Mediation: Degraded, De-framed, Frozen Shared Memories in Film Narration
• German DUARTE, Negotiating reality and its simulation. Some insights on the ways technological processes of representation corrupted reality
• Martin KNUST, Corruption and Decay: Some remarks about sound and music in cinema

PANEL 8

Gender and corruption
Chair: Raphaëlle COSTA DE BEAUREGARD

• Marianne KAC-VERGNE, Can action heroines age? The return of Sarah Connor in Terminator: Dark Fate
• Anne-Marie PAQUET-DEYRIS, ‘Fallen’ Women Fighting for their Independence in a corrupt men’s world in Forbidden Hollywood Pre-Code Era Films
• Sophie CHADELLE, Corrupting the Rom Com genre on screen: a multimodal analysis of Sex and The City’s subversive discourse on the Romance genre and its audiovisual translation

Discussion / Panel debate – Pause (15h30-16h)

16h00-17h30
PANELS
PANEL 9

Political / Economic corruption
Chair: Isabelle SCHMIDT-PITIOT

• Amira Mc GIVNEY, The Roots of Corruption in The Witch: A New-England Folktale (Robert Eggers, 2015)
• Thierry CORMIER : Les nouveaux corrupteurs. Une exploitation et une histoire du cinéma alternatives — Corruption des supports, des canaux de diffusion et de l’histoire du cinéma

PANEL 10

Places of corruption
Chair: Pablo GÓMEZ-MUÑOZ

• Andrés BUESA, Corrupting the Innocent Child: Childhood, Ethics and Spectatorship
• Hadrien FONTANAUD, Mud and Flame: celebrating corruption over purity in David Rudkin and Alan Clarke’s Penda’s Fen (1974)
• Jean-François BAILLON, Decadence and Decay in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973): Venice, Abject City?

18h00-19h PROJECTION COURTS METRAGE – LA CORRUPTION
SHORT FILM SCREENING (RELATED TO THE TOPIC OF THE CONFERENCE)

Vendredi 9 SEPTEMBRE 2022

9h00- 10h30
PANELS

PANEL 11

Political / Economic corruption
Chair: Marianne KAC-VERGNE

• Zeenat SALEH, The White House- Washington Connection
• Zachary BAQUE, Operation Abolition (HUAC, 1960) et la corruption des images
• Nadine ASMAR, De New York au Caire, la corruption policière au cinéma et des personnages antagonistes au même sort

PANEL 12

Corruption and genre [3]
Chair: Julie ASSOULY

• Nicole CLOAREC, Occupational hazards or the corrupting power of genre movies in Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012) and Censor (Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021)
• Céline MURILLO, Corrupt images and characters: exposing violence in G-Man (Beth B, Scott B, 1978)

Discussion / Panel debate – Pause (10h30-11h)
11h00-12h30 ASSEMBLEE GENERALE DE LA SERCIA / SERCIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY