1. Sex and the public sphere

Chair: Johnny Walker (Northumbria University)

• Francesco Sticchi (Oxford Brookes University): Enacting the neoliberal turn: Exploring the chronotope and ecology of The Deuce

• Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz (National University of Ireland Galway): The shadow of queer time: Violent bodies and queer eros in Derek Jarman’s Jubilee (1978)

• Haytham Mohamed (University of East Anglia): Egypt’s celluloid closet: The Yacoubian Building

2. Noir

Chair: Yushi Hou (University of Southampton)

• Katherine Farrimond (University of Sussex): Moderating glamour: Class, race and the femme fatale in Consumer Culture

• Phillip Drummond (independent scholar): The body and its cinematic times: Chistopher Nolan's Following

• Yushi Hou (University of Southampton): Body in surveillance: Panoramic urban space in contemporary Chinese neo-noir

• Daniel de las Heras (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): The representation of masculinity through Yohji Yamamoto's clothing in the film Brother by Takeshi Kitano

3. Motherhood

Chair: Emma Morton (University of Warwick)

• Virgínia Jangrossi (Independent scholar): Reflecting upon the changing of times: Reproductive rights in Grey’s Anatomy

• Yunzi Han (SOAS, University of London): The Self-sacrificing Mother: A Comparative Analysis of the Iranian Film The May Lady (Rakhshan Banietemad, 1998) and the Chinese Film Fengshui (Wang Jing, 2012)

• Kerstin Borchhardt (University of Siegen): The eternal return of the monstrous feminine: Pregnant body horror in the age of technology in Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and its legacy

• Savina Petkova (King’s College London): Motherhood, motherland: The national body in Viktoria (2014), Bulgaria

4. Voice and the gendered and racialized body in the historical musical István a király/King Stephen (Gábor Koltay, 1983)

Chair: Julie Lobalzo-Wright (University of Warwick)

• Gábor Gergely (University of Lincoln): Acoustic dimensions of Hungarian territorial integrity and bodily dismemberment

• Júlia Havas (De Montfort University): Nation-building and audio-visions of femininity in King Stephen

• Anna Martonfi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam): King Stephen and folk music: Mediated sounds and images of Hungarian national identities

1. Postcolonialism and indigeneity

Chair: Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton)

• Patrick Adamson (Independent scholar): “It never gets hysterical over their tragedy”: Native histories and counter-Histories in 1920s Hollywood

• Stephen Morgan (Queen Mary, University of London): David Gulpilil, settler cinema and the Indigenous body

• Paul Janman (Auckland University of Technology): ‘Ambush Road’ (experimental docu-fiction)

2. Childhood vulnerability

Chair: Aude Campmas (University of Southampton)

• Karolina Westling, (University of Gothenburg): The children's revolt against intergenerational injustice in Les Misérables

• Andrés Buesa, (University of Zaragoza): No world for old men: Childhood and vulnerability in contemporary ethnographic realism

• Catherine O'Rawe (University of Bristol): The non-professional actor in/and the canon: Thoughts on decolonizing acting

3. The drama of music

Chair: Kevin Donnelly (University of Southampton)

• Györgyi Vajdovich (Eötvös Loránd University): Fluid temporality in Bollywood “dream sequences”

• Christine Gledhill (University of Leeds): The melodramatic mode as aesthetic of body and time par excellence

• Hee-Young Chung (University of Southampton): Breathing aurality: The inter-subjectivity of the sound of breath in Sopyonje (1993)

• Lawrence Alexander (University of Cambridge): ‘Excavation and Entstellung: (Media) archaeological activity and postcolonial memory work in the artistic practices of William Kentridge’

4. Landscapes of Britain

Chair: James Leggott (University of Northumbria)

• Frances Smith (University of Sussex): Liminal landscapes in British youth cinema

• Jonny Smith (University of Manchester): Hit the North! – Returning home & reframing regionality in 1960s British cinema

• Anna Viola Sborgi (University of Genoa): A tale of two towers: Tower block and high-rise living in the London skyline across media.

• Alisha Mathers (University of Southampton): Bangladeshi body, British space: The translation of Bangladeshi-British (dis)orientations from novel to film in Monica Ali’s novel Brick Lane (2003) and Sarah Gavron’s film adaptation Brick Lane (2008)

1. French and Francophone cinema SIG: Vulnerable, precarious and exhausted bodies in French and Francophone cinema

Chair: Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent University)

• Sarah Cooper (King’s College, London): Gestures of vulnerability: On Isadora’s Children (Damien Manivel 2019)

• Kate Ince (University of Birmingham): Vulnerable and exhausted bodies in the film and television of Samuel Beckett and Mia Hansen-Løve

• Martin O’Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent University): Bodily becoming and its material limits in the cinema of Kechiche and Sciamma

• Ben Scott (Nottingham Trent University): Unbelonging bodies: The exit from labour in the films of Kervern and Delépine

French and Francophone cinema SIG invites all SIG members to participate in their meeting after the talk

2. Practice Research SIG Workshop

Chairs: John Twycross (University College London), Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol) and Shreepali Patel (Anglia Ruskin University)

3. Colour and Film SIG: Chromatic materials: fashioning the body in colour cinema

Chair: Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews)

• Kirsty Sinclair Dootson (University of St Andrews): Cotton cinema: between filmstock and fashion

• Natalie Snoyman (Pixar Animation Studios): Fashioning Technicolor: The fashion short and the three-strip process in the 1930s and 1940s

• Lucy Moyse Ferreira (London College of Fashion and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London): The relationship between fashion and colour in early fashion films

4. Screen Industries SIG: Diversity in the Screen Industries

Chair: Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton)

• Clive James Nwonka (London School of Economics and Political Science): Analysis of BFI Diversity Standards data and racial inequality in the UK film industry

• Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton): What about the (cis-, hetero, abled, middle-class, white) men?: Gender inequality data and the rhetoric of inclusion in the US and UK film industries

1. When stars collide: comparing star personas for complementarity and conflict

Chair: Jade Evans (Queen Mary University of London)

• Lucy Bolton (Queen Mary University of London): When Magnani met Monroe: national icons in New York

• Catherine Wheatley (King’s College London): Unknown Women: Isabelle Huppert and Greta Garbo’s performances of privacy

• Julie Lobalzo Wright (University of Warwick): Nothing’s Impossible: Barbra and Goldie as star filmmakers

2. Coming-of-age in social context

Chair: Lucy McDonald (University of Southampton)

• Maria Flood (Keele University): Between the universal and the specific: The critical reception of Moonlight as coming-of-age drama

• Lucía-Gloria Vázquez-Rodríguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): The language of queer cinema: haptic imaged and slow temporalities in Kokon (Leonie Krippendorff, 2020)

• Lewis Kellett (Sheffield Hallam University): Manifestations of time on the body in This is England (2006)

• Daniel Clarke (Independent Scholar): ‘Eighteen going on Eighties’: The body swap comedy in 1980s Hollywood

3. Quiet revolutions: Theoretical and production research perspectives on Canadian horror cinema

Chair: Xavier Mendik (Birmingham City University)

• Xavier Mendik (Birmingham City University): Quiet revolutions: Theoretical and production research perspectives on Canadian horror cinema

• Ernest Mathijs (University of British Columbia, Vancouver): Quiet revolutions: Theoretical and production research perspectives on Canadian horror cinema

4. Animation: work, commerce and rebellion

Chair: Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton)

• Carleigh Morgan (University of Cambridge): Camera work: Photography and animation in Winsor McCay’s Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)

• Andrew Corsini (Oxford Brookes University): “Good Grief”: American animated television and sixties rebellion

• Aimee Mollaghan (Queen’s University, Belfast): ‘Feel Everything’: animation, advertising and affect in cinema and television Idents

• Maliha Miriam and Chris Pallant (Canterbury Christ Church University): Reclaiming the invisible labour of animation production

1. Manhood and nation

Chair: Gábor Gergely (University of Lincoln)

• Babar Hussain (University for the Creative Arts, London): Unveiling the male veil: The politics of manhood in Pakistani cinema

• Çağla Esmer (Social Sciences University of Ankara and Corvinus University of Budapest): How do Turkish media construct masculinity?

• Robert Williamson (Oxford Brookes): Leslie Howard: Stardom and the hero figure in WW2 films

2. Intercultural intermediality

Chair: Estrella Sendra Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton & SOAS, University of London)

• Greta Westwood (SOAS): ‘Film as hope: negotiating proximity within transnational contexts’: (Audio-visual essay)

• Estrella Sendra (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton & SOAS, University of London): Displacement, intimacy & embodiment: nearby Alain Gomis’ multisensory cinema (video essay)

• Agnieszka Piotrowska: (University of the Creative Arts): Neria (1993) – a collaboration or neo-colonialism? (Link to website+trailer)

• Maitane Junguitu Dronda (Independent researcher): Black is Beltza: story of a timeline

3. Practices of nostalgia

Chair: Billy Errington (University of Durham)

• Toby Huelin (University of Leeds): “Maybe this time we’ll hit the right notes”: Music, temporality, and nostalgia on Disney+

• Mariana Pintado Zurita (University of Glasgow): So, what you been up to … for twenty years?” Time and the body in sequels.

• Lindsay Steenberg (Oxford Brookes University): The Last Days of Pompeii: The nostalgic body of the cinematic gladiator

• Liz Watkins (University of Leeds): The time, body and politics of colourised film

4. Aging

Chair: Deborah Jermyn

• Aubrey Tang (Chapman University): Beyond power: The sexual bodies of time

• Kate Taylor-Jones (University of Sheffield): Age, class and the star body in South Korea – the curious case of Youn Yuh-jung

• MaoHui Deng (University of Manchester): Cinema and the temporality of sex in later life