Day 1

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. 

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 

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

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 

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

Eme Eidson. Slow Fashion. 2022. USA. 46 mins. ATB2120