1. Comedy, Culture, and Community

Chair: Paul Flaig (University of St Andrews)

• Matthew Bannister (Waikato Institute of Technology): Taika Waititi’s Boy as comedian comedy/pōwhiri

• Harriet Idle (University College Dublin): Romantic comedy, New Zealand/Aotearoan (sub)urban aesthetics, and the ‘awkward’ hybridity of Taika Waititi’s Eagle vs Shark

• Yung-Hang Lai (King's College London): The Dialogue between Stephen Chow’s Comedies, Daoist Philosophy and Cynicism

2. Collaboration in Practice

Chair: Jasmine Nadua Trice (UCLA)

• Max Tohline (Independent Scholar): What Makes An Act of Criticism Successful?: A Collaborative Approach to the Deformative Video Essay

• Kayla Parker (University of Plymouth): Monologues and Metaphors: Co-creation and the Film Poem

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• Arezou Zalipour & James Nicholson (Auckland University of Technology): Shama, an insider looking in: A community production

3. Methodology, She Wrote: Film and the Written Word

Chair: Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews)

• Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal (University of St Andrews): Penning the image: The literary work of Thomas Clegg’s and the institutionalisation of Charles Urban’s Educational Films

• Melanie Selfe (University of Glasgow): Between Hollywood and Madison Avenue: the publicist as ideas broker in modernising movie advertising

• Ming-Yu Lee (Shih Hsin University): Counterpoint and Echo: the Practice and Research of Correspondence: Yuri Obitani/Ming-Yu Lee (2019-2021)

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4. Women and Aging: On-screen and behind the camera

Chair: Maohui Deng (University of Manchester)

• Susan Liddy (University of Limerick): Unseen and Unheard?’ Women, Ageing and the Irish Screen Industry

• Julia Erhart & Kath Dooley (University of Flinders & University South Australia): Double Trouble? Charting the experiences of Australian women picture editors over fifty

• Bernadette Luciano (University of Auckland): Nonnas on the Run: Ageing Women on the Move in Italian Cinema

5. Off the beaten track: New pathways for thinking about cinema and walking

Chair: Elizabeth Watkins (University of Leeds)

• Emre Çağlayan (American University of Paris): Walking with film as critical method

• Janina Schupp (University of Oxford & University of Cambridge): Walking from screen to curated space: Translating research findings on everyday life movements from fiction films into exhibition design

• Lavinia Brydon (University of Kent): From urban walking to watery wanderings

1. Communities and Cultural Networks

Chair: Glyn Davis (University of St Andrews)

• Elke Weissmann (Edge Hill University): Wavertree TV: Community-Led Local Public Service Television

• Heshen Xie (University of Nottingham): Resisting Western-centrism in the Global Queer Film Festival Circuit: The Asian Pacific Queer Film Festival Alliance

• Orson Nava (Ravensbourne University): Ravensbourne University’s Digital Film Department and the North Greenwich Design District. A Collaborative Relationship?

2. Women’s Film Networks

Chair: Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey)

• Tiffany Bale (University of Glasgow): Collaboration for women’s career survival: The politics of support in UK film and television costume departments

• Sarah Leahy & Isabelle Vanderschelden (Newcastle University & Lancaster University): Visibility through collectivity? Screenwriters in contemporary France

• Stefanie Van de Peer (Queen Margaret University): Networking a Global Women’s Film Heritage

3. Collaboration and Auteurship

Chair: Arezou Zalipour (Auckland University of Technology)

• Rachel Elizabeth Barraclough (University of Lincoln): Deleuze and the Auteur: The Cross-Pollination of Miike Takashi

• Rossana Capitano (University of Warwick): Visconti: less auteur, more collaborauteur. Celebrating collaboration in the films of Luchino Visconti of the period 1948-1963

• Joanna Rydzewska & Elžbieta Ostrowska (Swansea University & University of Lodz)): Between Fact and Fiction, Film and Television: Paweł Pawlikowski at the BBC

4. The transition to sound film, a key moment in the history of cooperation between European studios

Chair: Paul Flaig (University of St Andrews)

• Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton): Franco-German collaboration and exchanges in the early 1930s

• Morgan LeFeuvre (Queen Mary University of London): Between influences from Hollywood and Babelsberg: The French studios facing the transition to sound film

• Amy Stone (University of Bristol): Interdisciplinary collaboration: 3D Reconstruction of the Tonkreuz Sound Stage at Babelsberg Film Studios for Virtual Reality

5. Cross-pollination in film, television and new media in India: rebooting stardom through practices of intermediality

Chair: Anushrut Ramakrishnan Agrwaal (University of St Andrews)

• Sarah Rahman Niazi (University of Westminster): Film fairies of Bombay: Producing stardom through archival ephemera from the Urdu public sphere in India (1930- 50)

• Ipsita Sahu (Jawaharlal Nehru University): Phool Khile Hain and transactions between Film and Television in 1970s India

• Shruti Narayanswamy (University of St Andrews): Back in Business: the reinvented, older female Bollywood star in the streaming age

1. British Cinema and Television SIG: Women’s Production Histories in Britain

Chair: Melanie Williams (University of East Anglia)

• Steven Roberts (UWE Bristol): Carmen Dillon and Widescreen Design in Post-War Britain

• Bella Honess Roe (University of Surrey): Women in British Mid-Century Animation Studios: The historiographical challenge of identifying authorial agency in collaborative working contexts

• Vicky Ball (De Montfort University): ‘My God! This is male’: Women’s experiences of writing British television drama in the 1970s and 1980s

2. Science Fiction and Fantasy SIG: 'Hybrids, parasites and symbionts: drifting metaphors, weird proximities’

Chair: Mark Bould (University of the West of England)

• Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College): Undeadening Metaphors: Hybridity and Cross-Pollination

• Craig Ian Mann (Sheffield Hallam University): Bargains and Blood: Alien Infection and Anti-capitalism in Black Friday

• Mark Bould (University of the West of England): Mutualism, mycology and method: In the Earth

3. Film/making Education SIG: Networks and Industry in Filmmaking Education

Chair: Chris Nunn (University of Greenwich)

• Carmen Herrero (Manchester Metropolitan University)

• Neil Fox (Falmouth University)

• Edward McCaffer (Middlesex University London)

4. Screen Industries SIG: Collaborating with/within the Media Industries: Exploring emerging relationalities

Chair: Sylvia Harvey (University of Leeds)

• Steve Presence (UWE Bristol): Co-creating industry communities in the documentary sector: building the Documentary Film Council

• Andrew Spicer (UWE Bristol): 4 All the UK?

• Kate Nash (University of Leeds): Coalition for Change: A transformative collaboration for TV freelancers?

5. Amateur Cinema SIG: Amateur Cinema and the histories and politics of collaborative creative practices

Chair: Annamaria Motrescu-Mayes (University of Cambridge)

• Tom Slootweg (University of Groningen): Challenging amateur modes: Or how to deal with the variety of intent among amateur media practitioners?

• Giuseppina Sapio (Université Jean Jaurès/LERASS): A middlebrow eye: home movies between ideological subjection and profanation

• Graeme Spurr (University of the Arts London): Getting Down to the Frillies: Glamour, Permissiveness and Fashion in the UK Amateur Cinema Press, 1970-1980

6. Technology and Surveillance

Chair: Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews)

• Hannah Spaulding (University of Lincoln): Wiring the Safest Town in America: Cable Home Security and Data-Surveillance in the 1970s

• Lawrence Webb (University of Sussex): I Spy, Cinemobile, and Cold War logistics: rethinking the cross-pollination of film and television