1. Transgender bodies

Chair: Valentina Cardo (University of Southampton)

• Chris O’Rourke, (University of Lincoln): Fitting in, standing out: Trans and intersex histories and the film career of Robert Allen

• Sven Weidner (The University of Bamberg): Transformation of identity: transformation of the body

• Cristina Ruiz-Poveda Vera (ESNE University of Design (Spain)) and Julia Sabina Gutiérrez (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares): Immersive embodiment and drag: Dissociation and visual pleasure in Los ojos de Mila Kaos

• Emma Morton (University of Warwick): Queering the narrative in early Italian slapstick comedies

2. Labour disciplines and practices

Chair: Louis Bayman (University of Southampton)

• Helena Bassil-Morozow (Glasgow Caledonian University): The semiotics of a broken body: Tim Burton’s traumatic modernity and the assembly/disassembly line

• Vladimir Rizov (University of Southampton): The body of the worker, the body of the cop: RoboCop, Blade Runner, and Repo Men

• M. Lane Peterson (Universität Hildesheim): “Just Be Yourself”: Self-presentation and adaptation in the job interview

• Nick Jones, (University of York): Seamless composites? VFX breakdowns, the GUI, and digital labour

3. Places and technologies of spectatorship

Chair: Liz Watkins (University of Leeds)

• Beth Carroll (University of Southampton): Southampton Heritage Cinema Project

• Olga Moskatova, (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg): Re-relocation: Individualized spectatorship, bodily memory and cinema as broken time machine

• Sarah Byrne (University of Reading): Multiple temporalities and multiple audiences in NT at Home's One Man, Two Guvnors

• Vera Klocke (University of Hildesheim): Seated bodies in the living room. The immediate proximity of people as indicators of media transformation processes

4. Sinophone Cinemas and Media: Empire and Precarious Lives

Chair: Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton)

• Victor Fan (King’s College London): Buddhism as a technology of recognition: Pema Tseden’s Jinpa

• Kiki Tianqi Yu (Queen Mary University of London): When nonhuman eyes Looking at Human Inhabitants: Reading Xu Bing’s Dragonfly Eye (2016) through Daoism

• Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton): Screening a language war: Hong Kong independent cinema of the 2010s

• Yuan Li (University of Southampton): Reframing the social strata in the digital age: Director’s narration in Taiwanese Hokkien in The Great Buddha+ (2017)

1. Postfeminism

Chair Eve Benhamou (independent scholar)

• Louise Coopey (University of Birmingham): Arya Stark’s spectacular body: Tracking the corporeal development of long television’s warrior woman

• Jade Stewart (Keele University): The abject body in Fleabag

• Sophia Kanaouti (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): "I sometimes worry that I wouldn't be such a feminist if I had bigger tits": Fleabag, the body, and time to (not) grow into feminism

• Sumei Karen Anne Tan (University of Southampton): Guilty Pleasures and the 3Rs in the Cinderella trope: Revisiting, Reviewing, and/or Resisting the fairy tale in film and new media

2. Innovations for a changing present

Chair: Maggie Xiaoge Li (University of Southampton)

• Alan O’Leary (Aarhus University): Men shouting: A deformative history in fifteen episodes

• Dario Lolli (Independent researcher): The temporal dimension of ‘extended’ screen distribution: Licensing trade shows and the biopolitical production of subjectivity

• Charlotte Crofts (UWE Bristol): Keep calm and Cary online: Cary Comes Festival and online film culture during the pandemic

• Lucy Elizabeth McDonald (University of Southampton): YouTubers: The tangible star

3. Selling to the senses: Food Advertising in Film and Television History

Chair: Melanie Williams (University of East Anglia)

• Melanie Selfe (University of Glasgow): Mr Goldwyn’s ice cream fantasy: Selling the fiction film as a modern advertising medium.

• Malcolm Cook (University of Southampton): ‘Whipped Smooth’: Disney, television and expanded animated advertising

• Richard Farmer (University of Bristol): Snap, crackle and rock? Pop music and television advertising in the 1960s

4. Contemporary Chinese cinema

Chair: Ruby Cheung (University of Southampton)

• Yixuan Feng (University of Liverpool): Jing Tian: a star born between Huallywood and Hollywood

• Bruce Yung-Hang Lai (KCL): The truth about beauty and romantic comedy: Remaking neoliberal female bodies in China

• Liao Zhang (University of Nottingham): Post-feminist sisterhood in China: The intimacy and surveillance of female body

1. Media, activism and social attitudes

Chair: Shelley Cobb (University of Southampton)

• Hollie Price (University of Sussex): ‘Does the vote mean so much to women to-day?’: Jill Craigie’s ‘Live’ suffragette documentary for early postwar television

• Verena von Eicken (Falmouth University): Considering Top of the Lake (2013 & 2017) from an intersectional perspective

• Anthony Abiragi (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA): Epistemic activism in David France’s How to Survive a Plague

• Francisco-José García-Ramos (Complutense University of Madrid) and Francisco A. Zurian (Complutense University of Madrid): Marked at birth. Childhood and HIV in Spanish and Ibero-American cinema (2000-2019)

2. Euro-Bollywood SIG: Bollywood Bodies

Chair: Rajinder Dudrah (Birmingham City University)

• Vishal Chauhan (Birmingham City University): Decoding Normal: Popular Hindi cinema and the construction of caste Hindu identities

• Alexandra Delaney-Bhattacharya (Birmingham City University): Exploring the effects of cosmopolitan whiteness in Bollywood

• Julia Szivak (Birmingham City University): Where voice and body meet again: Punjabi rappers in Bollywood music videos

• Kulraj Phullar (independent scholar): Mobility, belonging and London in Jab Tak Hai Jaan (Yash Chopra, 2012)

3. Horror Studies SIG: Reclaiming Bodies, Voices and Experiences: Feminist Perspectives on the Horror Genre through Theory and Practice

Chair: Kate Egan (University of Northumbria)

• Alison Peirse (University of Leeds, UK): Hell is other critics: Remaking horror in the essay film (VIDEO ESSAY + REFLECTION)

• Amy Harris (De Montfort University, UK): Exploring the landscape of contemporary British horror via women filmmakers (VIDEO ESSAY + REFLECTION)

• Gabriela Zogall (University of Leicester, UK): The Evil Woman in Cinematic Realms: An Audio-Visual Essay (VIDEO ESSAY + REFLECTION)

4. Animation SIG: The Animated Body: History, Theory and Practice

Chair: Sam Summers (Middlesex University)

• Raz Greenberg (Tel Aviv University): From string puppets to giant robots: How Japanese puppet theatre paved the way to British and Japanese science fiction

• Alexander Widdowson (Queen Mary University of London): Representing the autistic body and mind in animated documentary

• Jane Batkin (University of Lincoln): Haunting Erosions: The animated body through the passage of time

1. The digital death of the unified subject

Chair: Jussi Parikka (Winchester School of Art)

• Lina Jurdeczka (King's College London): Holy Motors and the impossible death of cinema

• Brian Winston (University of Lincoln): Tilting at documentary windmills: The seductions of digital affordances.

• Angela Maiello (Università della Calabria): The intertwined time of complex TV

• Maggie Xiaoge Li (University of Southampton): Playing with self-portrayal in digital games

2. Clothing and cosmetics, race and gender

Chair: Lipi Begum (University of the Arts London)

• Alexandra Grieve (University of Cambridge): Ad(dressing) time: Costume, embodiment and the material inscription of Afro-diasporan experience

• Rachel Velody (University of Bristol): Deathly pale. Makeup/no-makeup and the infantilising of the female forensic pathologist, Dr. Nikki Alexander, in the procedural crime drama Silent Witness (UK BBC1,1996 onwards).

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• Cathy Lomax (Queen Mary University of London): The exotic skin of Dorothy Dandridge’s makeup

• Barbara Brownie (University of Hertfordshire): Costuming the weightless body: cloth, intangibility, and haptic visuality in space

3. Putting studios and studio workers into the frame: architectural, environmental and geospatial approaches

Chair: Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton)

• Eleanor Halsall (University of Southampton): The human inside the sound film machine: changing environmental conditions and labour relations in German film studios

• Sarah Street (University of Bristol): The film studio as narrative architecture

• Fraser Sturt (University of Southampton): Geospatial insights into film studio location, evolution and connectivity

4. A Discussion on Publishing with Intellect Books

Hosted by James Campbell (Intellect Books)

1. Choreographies of art and protest

Chair: Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo)

• Lizzie Sykes (Bournemouth University): It’s About Time: Site on film through Somatic-Digital Approaches.

• James Lawrence Slattery (University of Manchester): Bodies on the cusp: Strobe lighting and queer temporality

• Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo): The gesture as index of time: Donald Glover’s negotiation of history and race in ‘This is America’

• Lucy Bollington (University College London): From the cyborg to the bot avatar: Embodiment, speed and protest in the internet age

2. Embodiment and experimental cinema

Chair: Davina Quinlivan (Kingston University)

• Laurence Kent (University of the Arts London): The labour of inhuman rhythms: Hans Richter’s cinematic experimentations with the rational soul

• Emilija Talijan (St. John’s College, Oxford): ‘The true story of your death’: Hearing the heartbeat of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962)

• Pavel Prokopic (University of Salford): The indexical body of film: Time-based experiments in Super8 materiality and performance

• Oscar Mealia (University of Birmingham): Don’t Drown in Me: A Postmodern Fable (video essay) text with accompanying video

3. Temporality and technological change

Chair: James Jordan (University of Southampton)

• Samira Daneshvar (Harvard University): Cross epidermal voyage of electromagnetic waves

• Victoria Baltag (QUB): Time and sound in interbellum films

• Grace Wilsey (University of Michigan): The Count, the Tramp, and the Detective: Navigating Temporal Disorientation in Narratives of Technological Change

• Tom May (Northumbria University): A statistical and aesthetic analysis of Play for Today (BBC1, 1970-84)’s Average Shot Lengths and framings of the body

4. Real lives beyond biography

Chair: Huw Jones (University of Southampton)

• Francisco A. Zurian, (Complutense University of Madrid) and Francisco-José García-Ramos, (Complutense University of Madrid): Almodóvar and self-fiction: Pain and Glory (2019)

• Christina Wilkins (University of Winchester): Recalling the (queer) body

• Joseph Oldham (British University in Cairo, Egypt): Meeting the ‘Real’ George Smiley: Legends of Alec Guinness and the making of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (BBC 2, 1979)

• Jonathan Stubbs (Cyprus International University): Performance, embodiment and temporality in Sully (2016) and The 15.17 to Paris (2018)