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Dear all Final reminder on our event tomorrow in Brighton - no registration needed, all welcome.Grateful if you would forward and share with colelagues Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group (REG) Screening the Unreal 2019 Friday 28 June 2019 Grand Parade Campus Edward Street Building Rooms ES309, ES305 09.45-10.00 Introduction and Welcome [ES309] 10.00-11.30 Panel A [ES309] · William Proctor (Bournemouth), ‘A Dark Knight on Elm Street: Critical Industrial Practice, Regimes of (Sub)Cultural Value, and the Perils of Remaking and Rebooting Canonical Horror Cinema. · Martin Fradley (Independent), ‘"This Book is about American Popular Culture in the Age of Extremism”: Cine/Telefantasy, Ideological Critique and the 'Culture Wars' · Ewan Kirkland (UoB: FSS), ‘The Gothic Gameplay of What Remains of Edith Finch’ 11.30-11.45 Coffee / Tea Break 11.45-13.15 Panel B (i) [ES305] · Douglas McNaughton (UoB: FSS), ‘Acting, Performance and Excess in 1970s Telefantasy’ · Jean Martin (UoB: DMSA), ‘The Sinister in Electronic Sound’ · Amy Godliman, (UoB: DDM), ‘Doggerland Radio: A Multimedia Landscape of Historical Flotsam’ 11.45-13.15 Panel B (ii) [ES309] · Lindsay Hallam (UEL), ‘Drink Full and Descend: The Horror of Twin Peaks: The Return’ · Sally Miller (UoB: Photography), ‘Screening the Lacanian Real: Ballard, Cronenberg, Crash’ · Aris Mousoutzanis (UoB, FSS), ‘Bare Life, States of Exception and the Biopolitics of Dystopia’ 13.15-14.30 Lunch Break [ES305] / Screening and/or Panel Discussion [ES309] 14.30-16.00 Panel C [ES309] · Emma Withers (UoB, FSS), ‘Posthumanism in Claire Dennis’s High Life (2018)’ · Stacey Abbott (Roehampton), ‘When Aliens meet Vampires: Near Dark (Bigelow 1987) as Gothic Action Film' · Kate Meakin (Sussex), ‘A White Feminist Dystopia: Chrononormativity and Historical Amnesia in The Handmaid's Tale Protests’ 16.00-16.15 Coffee / Tea Break 16.15-17.45 Panel D [ES309] · Monica Germanà (Westminster), ‘The Resistance of the Undead in Sicilian Ghost Story (2018)’ · Christine Hui (Sussex), ‘Sakura Perfume: Representations of the Nation in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Takahata 2013)”. · Ptof Deborah Philips (UoB: English Literature), ‘Utopia, Nostalgia and National Identity in British Bake Off’ 17.45-18.00 Concluding Remarks and Future Plans [ES309] Work by students and staff by Photography, Digitla Music and Sound Arts, Design for Digital Media and Brighton Film School on display at room ES305. Blog at http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/screeningtheunreal/ Live poll to vote for lunchtime screening here<https://www.polleverywhere.com/multiple_choice_polls/3nr0ECzjd4wLm6nAi54JO> _____________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by MessageLabs' Email Security System on behalf of the University of Brighton. _____________________________________________________________ -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------