Bournemouth University (BU) in collaboration with Wolverhampton University presents 'Action Heroines in the Twenty-First Century: Sisters in Arms', hosted by the Narrative, Culture and Community Research Centre.
We very much look forward to welcoming you to our upcoming conference to be held at Bournemouth University, June 2022. Please find the full programme below and a link for registration
Register at
https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/narrative-culture-community-research-centre/action-heroines-twenty-first-century-sisters-arms
ACTION HEROINES IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: SISTERS IN ARMS
WEDNESDAY 8TH JUNE - ONLINE:
16.45 BST - WELCOME AND OPENING PANEL (Zoom links to follow)
17.00-18.30 PANEL 1 ACTION HEROINES IN ASIAN FILM AND TELEVISION
Alicja Bemben (University of Silesia) – Sisters in Arms, or How Collectivity Facilitates an Individual’s Agency
Gauri Durga Chakraborty (Bennett University) – Lady Gangsters in Bollywood: Locating Action and ‘Angry Young Women’ in Rural India
Liao Zhang and Jiyoung Kim (University of Nottingham) – Ajumma in Arms: The Rejuvenation of Aging Women in Contemporary South-Korean Action-Comedy Films
Yongde (Dennis) Dai (University of Macau) – Modern Mulan Tales: Iron Girls from Socialist Revolutionary Cinema to Main Melody Military Action Blockbusters
THURSDAY 9TH JUNE - BOURNEMOUTH TOWN CENTRE
19.00-23.00 PRE-CONFERENCE DINNER
FRIDAY 10TH JUNE - BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY, TALBOT CAMPUS
09.30-10.00 REGISTRATION AND COFFEE
10.00-11.15 PANEL 2 FEMININITY AND FEMINISM: FROM CHARLIE’S ANGELS TO WOMEN AT WAR
Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent) – Activist Heroines: The Eco-Warrior and her Sister
Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University, London) – ‘Once Upon a Time, There Were Three Little Girls’: The Enduring Attractions of Charlie’s Angels
Aviva Dove-Viebahn (Arizona State University) – Exploring the Second Closet: Feminine Power and Knowledge in Charlie’s Angels (2019)
11.15-11.30 COFFEE
11.30-12.30 KEYNOTE
Professor Yvonne Tasker ( University of Leeds)
12.30-13.45 PANEL 3 GENDER POLITICS AND CINEMATIC SUPERHEROINES
Christopher Holliday (King’s College, London) – Hollywood Cinema’s Nasty Women
Laura Crossley (Bournemouth University) – ‘I Know My Value’: Feminism, Femininity and Transgression in Marvel’s Agent Carter
Miriam Kent (University of Leeds) – ‘I’m Not The Killer That Little Girls Call Their Hero’: Action Femininities in Marvel Studio’s Black Widow
12.30-13.45 PANEL 4 ACTION HEROINES TAKING OVER THE SMALL SCREEN
Mareike Jenner (Anglia-Ruskin University) – Recycling Action Heroes: The ‘Gender Swap’ in Contemporary Action TV Re-Boots
Mathieu Arbogast (CEM/CNRS) – Armed and Dangerous: Police Women in TV Series, A New Equality of Arms
Frances Gateward (Howard University) – ‘Isn’t That the Whole Idea of Starfleet?’: Star Trek Discovery as Female-Driven Science Fiction
13.45-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00 PANEL 5 VIOLENCE AND AGENCY IN ACTION NARRATIVES
Helena Bassil-Morozow (Glasgow Caledonian University) – Harley Quinn, the Female Trickster: Emancipated or Stereotyped?
Marianne Kac-Vergne (University of Picardie Jules Verne) – Sisters in Arms in Terminator: Dark Fate
Rebecca Wright (Cardiff University) – Violence and Collective Agency in Mad Max: Fury Road, Terminator: Dark Fate and Birds of Prey
Emma Payne (Cardiff University) – ‘Am I Your Bitch Now?’: The Sound of Subversive Fighting in Atomic Blonde
16.00-16.15 COFFEE
16.15-17.45 PANEL 6 RACE, SEXUALITY AND THE EVOLVING ACTION HEROINE
Liz Hendy (University of Chester) – Hollywood Needs More Gender-Fluid Cyborg Lesbian Heroes: Exploring Sarah Connor’s Emerging Queer Identity in Terminator: Dark Fate
Deborah Jermyn (University of Roehampton) – ‘I’ve Been Here Before, Over and Over Again…and I’m Just Tired of it’: Advancing the Action Genre/Heroine in The Old Guard
Jenny Alexander (Bournemouth University) – ‘Nubian Queen Rise’: The Black Queer Action Heroine, Sisterhood and the Closet
Esmé Fransen (Stockholm University) – Be Gay, Do Crime? The Construction of Ocean’s 8 as a Lesbian Heist Movie
17.45 PLENARY
18.15 DRINKS RECEPTION AND CLOSE
Please contact Christa Van Raalte at [log in to unmask] or Fran Pheasant-Kelly at [log in to unmask] for any queries or further information
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