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One-Day Symposium
Film After Thatcher: Gender and Sexuality in post-1990 British Cinema
Wednesday 2 July – Liverpool Hope University
Registration, Tea/Coffee 11:30-12
Opening Keynote 12-1
Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow)
Confronting the Iron Lady – reflections on British Cinema after Thatcher
Lunch 1-1:45
Panel 1 1:45-3:15
Justine Ashby (University of Huddersfield)
Painting the Town Red: Female Friendship Films in the Post-Thatcher Era
Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool)
Illicit desires: constructing female sexuality in British Cinema 2000-2010
Josie Dolan (University of the West of England, Bristol)
Sexing it Up!: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the crisis of aging in a privatised economy
Tea/Coffee 3:15-3:30
Panel 2 3:30-5
Elena Boschi (Liverpool Hope University)
‘Where you from, you sexy thing’: Popular Music, Space, and Masculinity in The Full Monty
Robin Griffiths (University of Gloucestershire)
"A journey without direction": Mapping British queer cinema post-Jarman
Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope University)
Real men don't dance: uneasy versions of masculinity and sexuality in Billy Elliot
Closing Keynote 5-6
Claire Monk (De Montfort University)
Messing with masculinities: post-Thatcherite British cinema’s other men since the 1990s
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