'Screening the Unreal': Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group event, University of Brighton

Dear all


This is a reminder that the Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group launch event, Screening the Unreal, takes place next Wednesday 4 July at Grand Parade.

This one-day symposium will explore film, television and digital media depictions of fantasy, horror, the supernatural, the futuristic, the weird and the uncanny.

Our line-up currently includes papers on early trick photography, 1980s fantasy film, Gothic videogames, avant-garde cinema, children’s television and online culture. The event will cover such media as the TV series American Horror Story, Humans, Killjoys and Twin Peaks, the films Weird Science, The Wicker Man and Cuadecuc, Vampir, and digital games Forbidden Siren, Alien:Isolation and Gone Home.The full programme is detailed below.

Please visit our new blog to find out more about the REG and this exciting launch event:
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Screening the Unreal
Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group Launch

1000-1120
"It’s Alive!": Horror and the Moving Image
• Xavier Aldana-Reyes – Why Affect Matters: The Importance of Emotion and Somatics to the Study of the Horror Film
• Glenn Ward – Vampires in the Vanguard: When Pere Portabella Met Jesús Franco
• Darren Elliott-Smith – "Drag, Die, Repeat": Performative Pleasure and Queer Horror in American Horror Story

1140-1300
Fantastic Cinema
• Frank Gray – The Impossible: Early Film and the Representation of the Unreal
• Emma Withers – Disembodying Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre and Performance
• Holly Chard – "Don’t Ruin the Fantasy, Okay?": Teenage Masculinity and Fantasies of Womanhood in Weird Science

1400-1520
Amazing Television
• Sally Shaw – "The Past Threatens to Break in": Sapphire and Steel, Uncanny Spaces and ‘New Right’ Ideology
• Louise Fitzgerald – "Under His Eye": Ocularcentrism, Haptic Theory and The Handmaid's Tale
• Martin Fradley – "It is happening … again": Uncanny Repetition, Donald Trump and Twin Peaks: The Return

1400-1520
"This Can’t be Happening": Gothic Video Games
• Emily Jessica Turner – Trapped within the Victorian Gothic: How Video Games Reimagine The Yellow Wallpaper
• Rob Gallagher – Artificial Intelligence, Real Fear: Gothic Video Games and the Horror of Intelligent Machines
• Ewan Kirkland – "Nuke Possum Springs": Night in the Woods, Digital Storytelling and the Ludo-Gothic

1540-1710
Contemporary Screen Science Fiction
• Ali Williams – The Dutch-Aneela Effect:  Doppelgangers and Binary Opposition in SyFy’s Killjoys
• Patricia McManus – Dystopian 'Mobs': Politics and Form in Black Mirror and Bladerunner 2049
• Aris Mousoutzanis – Science Fiction, Biopolitics and the Simulacrum: Channel 4’s Humans
• Christine Cornea – "For Queen, For Country, For Kicks": Post-Apocalyptic Patriotism, Youth and Gender in Spooks: Code 9

1540-1700
"We Didn’t Burn Him!": Folk Horror and British Screen Cultures
• Douglas McNaughton – Folk Horror in British Television Drama: The Pattern Under the Plough
• David Powell – Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation: The Temporal Nightmares and Haunted Landscapes of British Television
• Diane A. Rodgers – Why Wyrd? Why Folklore? Why Now?


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