This interdisciplinary and international conference aims to bring together researchers and academics working in the field of subcultural studies, and in particular in their representation in fiction and film.
The full
programme for the ‘Teenage Kicks: The
Representation of Youth Subcultures in Fiction, Film and Other Media’
Conference has been announced by Keele University: -
Thursday 11 July
Keynote: Professor Scott Wilson (Kingston), ‘Subcultures and (Para)
academia: the case of Black Metal Theory’
Subcultures Network Panel
Pete Webb (Cambridge), ‘Literary Yobs and
Hooligan Misfits: Developing a Narrative and Reflexive Understanding of British
Working Class Culture Through Key Literary Works
Lucy Robinson (Sussex), ‘Colin MacInnes and “The
Boy” Ray Gosling’
Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan), ‘Raw Rumbles
in the Juvenile Jungle: Delinquency, Deviance and Depravity in American Pulp
Fiction of the 1950s’
Panel 1: Subcultural Film in the
1950s and 60s
Rehan Hyder (UWE), ‘Youth, Hysteria and Control
in Peter Watkins’ Privilege’
Johnny Hopkins, ‘”Teenagers terrorised a city last
night”: The impact of the British media response to the fans’ reaction to Rock Around the Clock’
André Grzeszyk, ‘Film History and the Generation
Gap’
OR
Panel 2: Subcultural Children and
Young Adults
Alejandro B. Gomez (UPenn), ‘Canon X: Generation X
peer group personality as seen in the Young Adult Fiction genre’
Shubhada Khedkar (York) ‘Portrayal of Street
Children and Youth in Bollywood Movies’
Anthony T. McKenna, ‘Sion Sono’s Subcultures:
Empowerment and the Impressionable’
Reading: Alan Fletcher, (author of Quadrophenia and the Mod Crop Trilogy)
Film Screening of Subcultures and Q & A session with
Don Letts (director
of The Punk Rock Movie, The Clash: Westway to the World, and Subcultures).
Friday 12 July
Keynote: Professor Shane Blackman (Canterbury), ‘Mods!: A
cosmopolitan youth subculture?’
Panel 1: We Are the Mods!
Steve Glynn (De Montfort), ‘”Teenage Dreams or
Teenage Wasteland”? Quadrophenia and
the Cult Film Experience’
Alice Ferrebe (Liverpool John Moores), ‘Colin
MacInnes’s Adventures in Teenage Anthropology’
Paul Hooper-Keeley (Derby), ‘Fact or
Fiction – Mod or Myth?’
OR
Panel 2: International Hip Hop and
R’n’B
Chris Warne (Sussex), ‘Curiosity, fear and control:
the representation of hip-hop on French television, 1985-1995’
Dave Ellis (Wolverhampton), ‘”The New
Parochialism”: Youth Cultures in Courttia Newland and Alex Wheatle’
Henry Witecki (California College of Arts),
‘Suddenly Another Me Is Dead: The Art of Tyler, The Creator’
Panel 1: Skin Games
Caitlin Shaw (De Montfort), ‘”Still Skinhead at
Heart: Nostalgia and Skinhead Culture in Contemporary British Period Drama’
Tom Parry (Glamorgan) ‘”Booted and Braced”: A
textual analysis of the media representation of global skinhead subculture’
Joseph Webb (Canterbury), ‘Musical subcultures
and hardcore video games’
OR
Panel 2: Punked!
Will Davies (Keele), ‘Jarman’s Jubilee: An act of resistance?’
Melani Schroter (Reading), ‘Normality Kills.
Discourses of Normality and Denormalisation in German Punk Song Lyrics’
Joan Ormrod (MMU), ‘British surfers’ reception
of pure surf movies in the 1960s and 1970s’
Reading, Film Screening and Discussion
Guy Mankowski (Northumbria), ‘How I Left The
National Grid: a Creative Writing PhD concerned with post-punk subculture and
identity’
Graham Roberts (Leeds Trinity) and Stephen Hay (Leeds), JOE STRUMMER SLEPT HERE
Reading - Alex Wheatle (author of Brixton Rock, East of Acre
Lane, and The Dirty South)
Saturday 13 July
Panel 1: Rave On
Matthew Cheeseman and David Forrest (Sheffield), ‘The Narrative Nightclub and Individual
Agency in British Cinema’
Andre Rinke (Kingston), ‘“The Weekend has
landed! – Rave and club cultures on film’
Pete Dale (Oxford Brookes), ‘Chava:
Underclass Subculture in the North East of England’
OR
Panel 2: Subcultural Noir
Jo Croft (Liverpool John Moores)
‘”Destruction After All is a Form of Creation’: Donnie Darko, and the Spatial Dynamics of the Teenage Dreamer’
Catherine Spooner (Lancaster), ‘Makeover /
metamorphosis: techniques of transformation in Goth(ic) narratives
Gerry Carlin and Mark Jones (Wolverhampton), ‘Charlie’s
legions: the Manson Family and subcultures of nihilism’
Panel 1: Subcultures: Forms, Histories and Theories
Jens Holze (Otto von Guericke University of
Magdeburg), ‘Identifying patterns of 20th century youth culture
using neo-formalistic film analysis’
Maria A. Velez-Serna (Glasgow), ‘”Like nothing I’ve
heard before”: Popular music and historical perspective in multi-strand films’
Keeley Hughes (Keele), ‘From Exaltation to
Abjection: positive and negative subcultures in Quadrophenia and Ill Manors
OR
Panel 2: Metalheads
N.A. Hassan (Liverpool John Moores), ‘Metal
goes to Hollywood: a critical analysis of heavy metal in 1980s cinema’
Abigail Gardner (Gloucester), ‘Vice TV, Norwegian
Black Metal and Telling it like it always has been’
Andy Brown (Bath Spa), ‘‘‘You’re all partied
out, dude!’: The mainstreaming of heavy metal subcultural tropes, from Wayne’s World to Beavis and Butthead’
Research Methods Workshop
Interviews,
Representation and Authenticity: How to Record Subcultural Experience.
The
conference organizers are Dr Nick Bentley, Dr Mark Featherstone, Dr Beth
Johnson and Dr Andy Zieleniec. The conference is in association with the Keele
University’s Humanities Research Institute, Keele Centre for Contemporary
Cultural Studies, and the Subcultures Network: The Interdisciplinary Network
for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change.
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