Event overview
Bodies on Screen explores the resonances between the body and screen-based media. The conference aims to investigate the politics of representing the body and its limits in a broad geographical spectrum, through creating a forum of academic discourse for postgraduate students whose researches are positioned in the intersection of the study of visual culture, film and embodiment.
Programme
Keynote: (10.00-11.15)
"Post-Soviet Bodies: Russian Literature on the Porn Screen"
Prof. Gian Piero Piretto, Università degli Studi di Milano
Panel I: Abject Bodies (11.15-13.00)
Chair: Dr. Pasi Valiaho, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Man-Eating: Disgust and the American Cannibal Film"
Elena Wooley, King’s College London
"Rituals and Traditions: The Representation of The Body in Cannibal Holocaust and Mondo Movies"
Lorenzo Gramatica, Goldsmiths, University of London
"The Genealogy of Zombie Image from Anatomical Theatre to Sunday Television"
Yigit Soncul, Goldsmiths, University of London
Panel II: Transgressive Bodies (14.00-15.30)
Chair: Dr. Gareth Stanton, Goldsmiths, University of London
Queer Bodies, ‘Normal’ Desires: Zhongxing Stardom in "Chinese Popular Culture"
Eva Cheuk-yin Li, King’s College London
"Cinematic Specters of the Postcolony: Haunted Bodies in Postcolonial Turkish-Cypriot Cinema"
Cihat Ar?nç, Goldsmiths, University of London
"The De-Masculinised Fat Male in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema"
Barbara Plotz, King’s College London
Panel III: Transformative Bodies (15.45-17.15)
Chair: Dr. Virginia Crisp, Middlesex University
Technology and the Body in the Interwar Period: A Study in "Science Fiction Film"
James Williamson, Goldsmiths, University of London
"Béla Tarr's Ruined Bodies"
Calum Watt, King’s College London
"Hauntologies Through the Costume in Chinese Martial Arts Cinema: Seeing Entangled Bodies of Historical Trauma, Affect, and Transnational Memory Production"
Nathan To, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 May 2013 | 10:00am - 5:30pm |
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