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Dr. Helen Wheatley gives research seminar on 'Television Death' at University of Sussex
On November 16th Dr. Helen Wheatley gave an invited research seminar at the University of Sussex, on the representation of death and the dead on television. The abstract is below:
Television Death
This paper examines the representation of death and the dead on television. In doing so, it moves off from work on death on film to think about the ways in which television mediates death for its viewers, providing encounters with death which may be disturbing or reassuring, offering viewers the frisson of an engagement with our own mortality or holding death at a safe distance from everyday life. I will explore a series of ‘death genres’ on television, including the ‘human body’ documentary, the anatomy spectacular, and televisual encounters with assisted dying during this paper.
Film and Literature graduate Oliver Gray presents his new film Panic at mac Birmingham on Nov 10
Oliver Gray, a Warwick BA Film and Literature graduate, class of 2004, will be introducing his new film at the Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, on November 10th.
Dr. Helen Wheatley speaks about women's roles in early tv production on BBC News
Dr. Helen Wheatley was featured on the 5.00pm and 10.00pm BBC News on Monday November 1st, speaking about women's roles in early tv production, in relation to the anniversary of the TV Service.
Department launches V. F. Perkins tribute pages
The Dept. of Film and Television Studies is pleased to annouce the launch of its tribute to our colleague and founder, V. F. Perkins.
Dr. Karl Schoonover speaks on 'Queer Cinema and the spaces of Europe' at University of Sussex
On Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 Dr. Karl Schoonover, along with his collaborator Dr. Rosalind Galt, will give a presentation entitled 'Queer Cinema and the spaces of Europe' in the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.
Schoonver and Galt are co-founders of the website and research project.
The abstract of their paper is below:
Queer Cinema and the Spaces of Europe
Queer cinema creates worlds, intervening in existing debates on the national, transnational and global as well as envisioning new modes of being in the world. This talk will focus on how contemporary queer films imagine Europe, and how dissident gender and sexual identities intersect with persistent questions of European politics, spaces, and identities. We will analyse border-crossing films, considering how tropes of immigration and mobility articulate sexuality with race, nationality, and marginality within and outside the EU. Looking at representations of the Muslim queer, we ask how this cinematic figure responds both to liberal visions of Europe and to a broader global politics of borders, Islamophobia, and the war on terror. We also explore the transnational within Europe, considering how popular genre films intersect the politics of LGBT tolerance with issues of national identity, political violence, and human rights.