Day 1
Monday 3 April 2023
PGR Workshop: 10:45 - 11:45
PGR Workshop: 'PGR Precarities in Film, Television and Screen Studies' MB0302
CHAIRS: Billy Errington and Emma Morton
Precarity is seemingly inherent as a postgraduate researcher in academia, and its impact on the wellbeing and mental health of the PG researcher has been well documented. In this workshop, we look at some of the uncertainties and precarities experienced as part of the postgraduate research journey, particularly in our respective fields. These have included, for example, the potential of research to fail and perpetual anxieties around future academic careers; preservation and progression in the context of an unstable academy that rests on the ‘publish or perish’ idiom; obstacles surrounding funding/self-funding, and the challenges in accessing funding streams more generally.
This workshop hopes to shed light on alternative career pathways for PGs and ECRs in the current academic climate, offering support for members who have been impacted by the current staffing cuts at various academic institutions across the country. We hope to offer this platform as an opportunity to give voice to emotions and feelings of uncertainty that often feel out of place in academic work.
We are delighted to welcome invited speakers (details to be revealed in due course) from various areas of the academy to reflect on their experiences of precarity as we turn to consider the sustainable futures of film, television, and screen studies, both for the current and next generation of researchers and practitioners.
Session 1: 12:00 - 13:30
1.1 Special Interest Group: Adaptation SLB0006
CHAIR: Basil Glynn
Louise Coopey
Spinoffs and Prequels: The Sustainability of the Game of Thrones (2011-2019) Storyworld
Andrew Watts
Sustainability, Survival, and (Mis)Remembering the Canon: Adapting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
Christina Wilkins
Truth, Self-hood, and Adaptation in Westworld
1.2 Special Interest Group: British Cinema and Television ATB0109
CHAIR: Chris Nunn
Simon Harvey and Kingsley Marshall
Long Way Back: Developing working principles for crewing feature film production with higher education students.
1.3 Documentary ATB0107
CHAIR: Katerina Loukopoulou
George Larke-Walsh and Elayne Chaplin
The Ethics of True Crime Adaptation: The Staircase
Ipsita Sahu
From "Voice of God" to "Voice of Nation": Melville Demellow and the television series Perspective and Now
Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
The Uses of Documentary and Based-on-a-True-Story Format
1.4 Archives ATB0111
CHAIR: Llewella Chapman
Carolyn Birdsall and Joanne Garde-Hansen
A Dutchman and an Englishman walk into Flood History: New Readings of Broadcast Archives for Transnational Futures
Liz Watkins
Colourisation, Ethics and the Archive: attending to the dead.
Nikolaus Perneczky
World Film Heritage: Decolonising Care and Sustainability in Global Audiovisual Archiving
Joanne Knowles
‘Essential stuff’: TV reviews in Just Seventeen and the framing of TV for teenage girls
1.5 Film Practice Pedagogy MB0312
CHAIR: Chris Nunn
Rob Hardcastle and Andrew Vallance
Questions of imagination and process: The potential of film practice pedagogy to challenge existing modes of production in the context of the climate emergency
Misha Zakharov
Detoxifying the archive: remakes, revisions, reenactments
Agnieszka Piotrowska
The ethics of collaboration – a personal experience Wash (2022)
Phil Mathews
Decolonising curriculums and enabling transnational approaches across postgraduate media production courses
Session 2: 14:30 - 16:00
2.1 Philosophy, Memory, Temporality SLB0006
CHAIR: Maohui Deng
Louis Bayman
Memories of the future: Spencer (2021), history and multiple temporality
Sophia Kanaouti
Arendt’s “political space”: Killing Eve, real politics, and the feminist politics of the woman psychopath
2.2 Sexualities ATB0109
CHAIR: Emma Morton
Rachel Milne
“Hardship Within the Context of Joy”: Rafiki’s Queer Resistance
Polina Zelmanova
Mediating representations of Sex and Consent on Screen after #MeToo
Yuan Li
Man in Love, Woman in Activism: Gender, Politics, and Linguistic Relativity in New Taiwanese Melodrama
2.3 Stars, Costume, Makeup ATB0107
CHAIR: Llewella Chapman
Abigail Whittall
Examining Guillermo Del Toro’s Monsters: Labour, Visibility and the Practical Effects Makeup Actor
Ellen Wright
Marilyn Monroe™: The problematic promotional politics of sex aids, biopics and borrowed dresses.
Richard Farmer
‘Bridal outfits from the heart of filmland’: Clothes rationing, wartime film production and Gainsborough Pictures’ Studio Hire Service
2.4 Decolonising and Positionality ATB0111
CHAIR: Jeongmee Kim
Astrid Korporaal
Material Beings: Decolonial Roleplay in the work of Ana María Millán and Erika Tan
Finn Daniels-Yeomans
Researcher Positionality and the Quiet Non-Certitude of Rosine Mbakam
2.5 Fossil Aesthetics MB0312
CHAIR: Neil Jackson
Jaime Vindel
The dam as cinematographic Atlante: hegemony, hydroelectricity and ecological sensitivity in the Italian film production of the economic miracle
Miguel Errazu
Mining Sites and Contact Cinemas: reanimating the Miner’s Film Workshop of Telamayu (Bolivia, 1983)
Alberto Berzosa
Traces of Portuguese ecologism around the carnations
2.6 Queer Authorship MB0302
CHAIR: Billy Errington
Megan Wilson
"I know about an all-woman world": Embodying equity and intimacy in Portrait of a Lady on Fire's lesbian imaginary
Becky Ellis
A League of One’s Own: Abbi Jacobson the new queer pioneer
Session 3: 16:15 - 17:45
3.1 Special Interest Group: Filmmaking Education SLB0006
CHAIR: Jolene Mairs Dyer
James Staunton-Price
Beyond ‘Skills for a Sustainable Industry’: Socio-ecological experiments in nonfiction filmmaking pedagogy
Richard Langley
Albert, Employability and the Elephant in the Room
Lee-Jane Bennion-Nixon
Filmmaking for Change
3.2 Special Interest Group: Science Fiction ATB0109
CHAIR: Johnny Walker
Mark Bould
Marjorie Prime: labour and technology, memory and loss in the Anthropocene
Amy C. Chambers
The interface at the end of the world: posthuman care, mental health and memory in Aniara (2018)
Alexander Sergeant
Caring for the World: The Virtue of Superman
3.3 Runaway Production & Heritage ATB0107
CHAIR: Hannah Spaulding
Chrishandra Sebastiampillai
Runaway film production and film-induced tourism: sustainability of heritage houses as film sets in Malaysia
Rosemary Alexander-Jones
Age versus Beauty: Conservation Considerations for Filming in Heritage Properties
Olivia Booker
Margaret Tait’s Film Poems as a Model for Ecological Filmmaking Practice
Júlia Havas and Nick Jones
Dystopian Futures on Hungarian Soundstages: Technology and Support Work in Runaway Productions
3.4 Videogames paratexts: pasts and futures ATB0111
CHAIR: TBC
Esther Wright
The uses of “History” in Digital Game Paratexts
Nick Webber
The paratextual past – relating histories of game experience to game texts
Iain Donald
Account, Accuracy, and Authenticity: A Framework for Analysing Historical Narrative in Games
Ed Vollans
Accidental archives and paratextuality
3.5 Roundtable: Ethics and Praxis – Sustainable Futures MB0312
CHAIR: TBC
Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, Rebecca Harrison, Phil Mathews, Christa VanRaalte, Agnieszka Piotrowska, Neil Percival
Screening 1: 10:00-16:00
Practice Research by a Doctoral Student (Nominees) ATB2120
The films will be available to play from the laptop set up by the wall-mounted cabinet in the Screening Room. Please select the film you wish to see from the OneDrive folder open on the screen. Please make sure not to close the OneDrive folder and to leave it open for the next person or group.
If the system has (been) powered down or the settings have been changed before your visit, please turn on the projector with the power button on the right hand side of the side panel of the projector as you look at it with the wall mounted cabinet behind you. Turn on the amplifier and select Media Player. The image should now appear on the screen. Use the volume button to adjust the sound to the required level. Please don't be shy about turning it up loud if you wish.
VR and Installation ATB2211
Screening 2: 16:45-17:45
Eme Eidson. Slow Fashion. 2022. USA. 46 mins. ATB2120