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A provisional schedule for the Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre postgraduate conference 'New approaches to gender, film and television: Histories and futures in the digital age', is now available on our website In Motion.
Registration is still open and available here, priced at only £15. Lunch and light refreshments will be provided. All are welcome.
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New approaches to gender, film and television: Histories and futures in the digital age
A postgraduate conference
organised in association with BAFTSS
Saturday 22nd June 2013, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Clarissa Smith (Reader in Sexual Cultures, University of Sunderland)
Author of One for the Girls! The Pleasures and Practices of Reading Women’s Porn (2007, Bristol: Intellect)
In recent years, film and television studies have seen a sustained focus on gender as both a category and an object of analysis. The CATH Centre has been an active participant in highlighting the efforts of women through collaborative ventures such as ‘Cine Sisters’, in conjunction with the Cinema Museum, and the ‘Adopt a Woman’ campaign as part of the BECTU Oral Histories project. These projects, as well as research elsewhere like the AHRC-funded Global Queer Cinema project, indicate a growing interest in re-examining gendered boundaries in the film and television industries and in textual representation. Simultaneously, new technologies and digital practices are changing how archival material is disseminated, while online spaces are inciting new forms of fan response and interaction, and new forums are emerging for academics to engage with wider publics, fans and audiences. These technological and cultural shifts are increasingly pertinent to the study of gender in film and television studies but remain, as yet, under-theorised.
This conference will seek to explore the effects of rapidly changing technologies and platforms on the study of gender in film and television. What methodological challenges face postgraduate researchers in a context of constant change? How do new approaches to film and television studies affect gender representations and the way that we interpret them? And how do changes in the present affect how we approach studies of gender, past and future?
Papers will engage with studies of gender, new technologies and digital practices either through specific case studies or in broader theoretical reflections. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:
- Past and future issues of gender in the film and television industries;
- The implications of changing platforms to contemporary and future studies in reception;
- Online film and television criticism and new possibilities for academic engagement;
- Textual representations of gendered futures and the future of gender representation;
- How new technologies and digital practices affect studies of gender in film and television history.
Delegates and attendees may also be interested in Console-ing Passions (www.console-ingpassions.org), an three day international conference on television, audio, video, new media and feminism, taking place at De Montfort University from June 23rd.
Room 3.06J
School of Media and Communication
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
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