The Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group launch event,

 

Screening the Unreal,

 

takes place at

 

Grand Parade campus of the University of Brighton

 

Wednesday 4 July.

 

This one-day symposium will explore film, television and digital media depictions of fantasy, horror, the supernatural, the futuristic, the weird and the uncanny. Our line-up currently includes papers on early trick photography, 1980s fantasy film, Gothic videogames, avant-garde cinema, children’s television and online culture. The event will cover such media as the TV series American Horror Story, Humans, Killjoys, Sapphire and Steel and Twin Peaks, the films Weird Science, The Wicker Man and Cuadecuc, Vampir, and digital games Forbidden Siren, Alien:Isolation and Night in the Woods.

 

Please visit our new blog to find out more about the REG and this exciting launch event:

 

http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/screeningtheunreal/

 

Book your free ticket here:

 

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-the-unreal-tickets-47033161452

 

More details to follow. Keep tabs on developments on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fss_UoB

 


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