*Sex and the Cinema – A Film Studies journal conference*
10-11 December 2016
University of Kent
From the extremes of Disney canoodling at one end of the spectrum to
pornography at the other, sex has always had a central role in moving
images. This role has never been confined to representations in
individual scenes, but has taken shape in every industrial and cultural
aspect of their production, dissemination and consumption, from the
Hollywood casting couch and red-light-district alleyways, to parked cars
at drive-ins and the YouPorn user’s bedroom. So too has sex held a key
position in film scholarship, aesthetics and the cognate disciplines that
appraise moving images and their function in society. In recent years, this
presence has only grown, in the form of key individual publications as well
as burgeoning subfields (e.g., porn studies) and objects of inquiry (e.g.,
grindhouse programming).
As a substantial intervention into this ongoing research, the Aesthetics
Research Centre, the Centre for Film and Media Research, and the journal *Film
Studies* will stage a major international conference at the University of
Kent in Canterbury (UK), to be held 10-11 December 2016.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
• Prof. Daniel Biltereyst
• Prof. A.W Eaton
• Prof. Jon Lewis
• Jennifer Lyon Bell
The programme, which includes nearly 50 academics from the UK, Europe and
beyond, is available at:
https://sexcinemaconference.wordpress.com/programme/
Registration (open until 1 December) is available at:
https://sexcinemaconference.wordpress.com/registration/
Dr Mattias Frey
Reader in Film
Managing Director, Centre for Film and Media Research
Director of Education, School of Arts
Co-Editor, *Film Studies*
University of Kent - Jarman School of Arts, 2-26 - Canterbury CT2 7UG - UK
NEW 2016: *Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art Film
Culture*
http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Extreme-Cinema,5905.aspx
NEW 2016: *Film Studies* 13 & 14 on 'Institutions and Agency'
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/film/
NEW IN PB 2016: *Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, Practice
and Spectatorship*
https://www.routledge.com/Cine-Ethics-Ethical-Dimensions-of-Film-Theory-Practice-and-Spectatorship/Choi-Frey/p/book/9780415821254
*This email is confidential to the intended recipient. If you have received
it in error please notify the sender and delete it from your computer.*
|