Begin forwarded message: From: Aris Mousoutzanis <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> Date: 20 April 2017 at 20:54:59 CEST To: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Subject: [CULTSTUD-L] 'Nostalgia in Art, Media and Popular Culture', Film and Screen Studies, University of Brighton, 28 Apr 17 Reply-To: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> University of Brighton 2nd Annual Film & Screen Studies Symposium Nostalgia in Art, Media and Popular Culture School of Media Friday 28 April 2017, 10.00-15.30 154-5 Edward Street, Room 102 University of Brighton Brighton BN2 0JG Nostalgia is a recurring theme of contemporary popular film, television and digital media. Reboots and remakes, sequels and spin-offs fill our screens. DVD box sets repackage old shows as new products. Digital techniques recreate the look of celluloid, old photography and early cinema, as older media formats, such as vinyl and audio cassettes experience renewed popularity. Indie videogames evoke retro aesthetics, streamed television conspicuously emulates the cinematography of 1980s movies, while award winning films reference the musicals of classical Hollywood in a combination of irony and sincerity. Advertising, science fiction cinema, biopics, children’s television and digital serials are engaged in a complex interplay between present and a mediated past as much imaginary as actual. What are the meanings, contexts, and consequences of such widespread engagement with the past, and how might cultural nostalgia be critically theorised? This event explores the presence of nostalgia in areas of media, art and popular culture. All welcome. No requirement to book. Papers to include: Jenni Cresswell: Deconstructing Dresses to Reveal an Imagined Past and Future Katherine Farrimond: Retro Noir, Nostalgia and the Femme Fatale Louise Fitzgerald: “It feels so nostalgic”: Sensory Nostalgia and Haptic Empathy Martin Fradley “The past does matter … it shapes the future”: Shane Meadows and Counter Nostalgia Struan Gray: “To see ourselves again”: Nostalgia for a Dictatorship in Pinochet’s Children Ewan Kirkland: Nostalgia, Cowboys and Western Mythology in Popular Culture for Children Douglas McNaughton: “A Tourist In Your Own Youth”: Karaoke Sequels and Spatialised Nostalgia in Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting 2 Aris Mousoutzanis: Taboo (BBC 2017) and Imperial Nostalgia Deborah Philips: “It's Being Nostalgic that Kept Them Going”: Sandy Wilson and the Nostalgia of Camp http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/study/pmis/events/2nd-annual-film-and-screen-studies-symposium/_nocache<https://staffmail.brighton.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?REF=RTIdxEq4GzP8mV6rAlozM6PVa_afrCfkcwY7oOwLM9TEqgThG4HUCAFodHRwOi8vYXJ0cy5icmlnaHRvbi5hYy51ay9zdHVkeS9wbWlzL2V2ZW50cy8ybmQtYW5udWFsLWZpbG0tYW5kLXNjcmVlbi1zdHVkaWVzLXN5bXBvc2l1bS9fbm9jYWNoZQ..> Please contact Dr Ewan Kirkland on [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> for further information. ___________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. For more information see: https://staff.brighton.ac.uk/is/computing/Pages/Email/spam.aspx ===== General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html