Screen Studies Conference 2007
6-8 July 2007University of Glasgow
The focus of the plenaries and a key strand in this year's Conference is 'Queer Screens'.
We are delighted to welcome B. Ruby Rich, who will be in conversation with Richard Dyer on the Sunday afternoon closing plenary.
The opening plenary, chaired by Jackie Stacey, on Friday afternoon will feature:
Patricia White Lesbian minor cinema
Lisa Henderson Queer relay
While on the Saturday afternoon plenary, chaired by Sarah Street, we will have:
Michele Aaron Queer television theory, aka the ethics of sofa-spectatorship
Lily Cho The futures of loss: Richard Fung's Sea in the Blood and the
materiality of melancholia
Ellis Hanson Cinema a tergo: queer theory and Gus van Sant
The draft programme is below
FRIDAY 5.30 - 7.00
Plenary 1
Stacey, Jackie CHAIR
Henderson, Lisa Queer relay
White, Patricia Lesbian minor cinema
SATURDAY 9.00 - 10.30
Actuality / history / myth / fiction in queer film
Straayer, Chris Based on a True Story: Politics, Business, and Art
Gopal, Sangita Real Queer: Marginal Subjectivities in Contemporary
Hindi Film
Hankin, Kelly Yes, But Can They Play Straight?: The
Self-Fashioning of Lesbian Actresses
Ginsberg, Terri, The Political Queering of Zionism in Zero Degrees of
Separation
French cinema
Birchall, Bridget Urban imprisonment, boundless desire: violent sexual
renaissance in Themroc (1972)
Driskell, Jonathan Adding the queer to French film history: Club de
femmes (Jacques Deval, 1936)
Gabrysiak, Diane Queer money: gender, sex, finance and power in
La Banquiere (Franis Girod, 1980)
Road movie
Hibbert, John Paul Queering genre: film genres and queer identity in
My Own Private Idaho
Guha, Malini Migrants on the road: genre revisionism and spatial
ambivalence in Winterbottom's In This World
Powell, Ryan Go West: liberatory emasculation and utopian ideology
in Joe Gage's Kansas City Trucking Company
Tate, Alex 'Did you like being a lesbian?' Temporal resistance to
lesbian commodification in Diego Lerman's Tan de
Repente
Hauntings
Gronstad, Asbjorn Last year at the Ambassador: pastness in The Decay
of Fiction
Chen, Tzu-Ying Corporeal movies: the cinematic body in Tsai
Ming-Liang's films
Ma, Jean From flanerie to cruising: Tsai Ming-Liang's queer
modernity
Lee, Christina We'll Always Have Hong Kong: Uncanny Space and
Disappearing Memories in the Films of Wong Kar Wai
Queer(ing) American independent film through the decades
Jahn-Sudmann, Andreas The Watermelon Woman (Cheryl Dunye, 1996):
Queering Authenticity, History, Identity
Gotto, Lisa No One Knows My Name - Queering Glen or Glenda
(Ed Wood, 1953)
Brunner, Markus Pink Flamingos (John Waters, 1972) - Queering
Perversions
Benshoff, Harry Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) - A
Quasi-Independent Queer Critique of White Western
Heteronormativity
The cityscape in Hong Kong cinema
Cheung, Esther On Spectral Mutations: The Ghostly City in The
Secret, Rouge, and Made in Hong Kong
Ho, Jason Alienation in the (Queer) City: Stanley Kwan's Hold You
Tight
Yee, Winnie Displacing the Other: The Representations of Macau in
Hong Kong Cinema
Law, Fiona Making the Festive City: the Case of Chinese New Year
Films in Hong Kong
SATURDAY 11.00 - 12.30
Sound and music (1)
Hanson, Helen 'Commanding all the sounds of the universe':
post-production sound, soundscapes and sound design in
Hollywood's studio era
McGill, Amy From starship to studio: David Lynch, George Lucas and the
sounds of contemporary Hollywood
Bayman, Louis The operatic and the everyday in Italian melodrama
Smith, Jacob Sound and performance in Stephen Sayadian's Night Dreams
and Café Flesh
Bodies
Ings,Welby The look of silence: a consideration of typography as the gay
'voice' in the silent film boy
Tyler, Carole-Anne Queer screens: screening (for) intersex
Hastie, Amelie Theatre comforts
Beugnet, Martine & Ezra, Elizabeth Zidane: Portrait of the Twenty-First
Century?
Postwar queer New York and the queer avant-garde as cultural formation
Gregg, Ron Barbara Rubin, Christmas on Earth and Queer Cultural
Revolution in the 1960s New York Underground
Chauncey, George Introduction: postwar queer New York and the queer
avant-garde as cultural formation
Suarez, Juan,Myth Matter, Pop: The Gryphon Group
Gilbertson, Leanne Cinema meets Dance: Queer Couplings in Warhol's
Factory and Judson Memorial Church
Racialised bodies in national/transnational cinema
Maingard, Jacqueline Gender troubles in South African cinema
Wu, I-Fen Do you know I am looking at you? Visual pleasure and
body politics in Tsai Ming-Liang's films
Dasgupta, Sudeep Postcolonial Screens and Queer Re-Visions: Modernity,
Media and the Sexualized Body
Ma, Ning Branding the western myth in Hollywood and Shanghai:
rereading Red River and Red River Valley
Queer Asian cinema
Marchetti, Gina Between comrade and queer: Stanley Kwan's Hold You
Tight (1997)
Kim, Youngyiil In a sad and lonely place: depicting queer in the
convention of melodrama
Chua, Ling-Yen & Tanu, Elrica The King and the Clown: queer images and
straight Korean audiences
Women artists and experimental film: the politics of form and place
Smith, Sarah Lip and Love: Subversive Repetition in the Pastiche Films of
Tracey Moffatt
Connolly, Maeve Of Other Worlds: Nature and the Supernatural in the Moving
Image Installations of Jaki Irvine
Neely, Sarah The Big Wee Picture': Margaret Tait's film poems and the
borderlands of Scotland's documentary filmmaking tradition
Mayer, Sophie From Expanded Cinema to Web 2.0: Sally Potter
onstage/onscreen/online
SATURDAY 1.45 - 3.00
Theory
Griffin, Sean Queering the heteronormative
Evans, Christine Extreme acts of love: the Lacanian act between cinematic
agents and loving subjects
Joyce, Hester Bad form: perverse turns in 1990s cinema
Historical (re)visions: queer film criticis
Richmond, Scott The conjugated if: Parker Tyler's queer film criticism
Fortes, Mara Projection and the cinema: HD's Queer Politics
Puetz, Michelle Les Evening Gowns Damnées: Queering Film Criticism in
the Critical Writings, Early 8mm Films, and Audio
Recordings of Jack Smith
Sound/music (2)
Tobias, James Melos, Telos and me: transpositions of identity in the rock
musical
Campora, Matthew Sonic reality bleeding: multiform narrative and ontological
metalepsis in Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind
Newland, Paul Folksploitation: charting the horrors of the British folk music
tradition in The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973)
Ethics
Wheatley, Catherine The ethics of aggression: Michael Haneke's Funny
Games
McInnes, David Traumatic boyhoods and ethical possibilities in Greg
Araki's Mysterious Skin
Coulthard, Lisa Ethical violence: suicide as authentic act in the films of
Michael Haneke
The Aesthetics of Violence and Violation in Queer Chinese Cinema
Chan, Kenneth Cross-Cultural Violations: the Queer Diasporic Cinema of
Simon Chung
Lim, Song Hwee Queering Violence in Juvenile Delinquency: Extreme
Realism and Pornographic Aesthetic in Royston Tan's 15
Television nostalgia
Woods, Faye Nostalgia, Music and the Television Past Revisited in
American Dreams
Holdsworth, Amy Do You Remember the First Time? Modes of Nostalgia in
Contemporary British television
Kleinecke-Bates, Iris Flog It! Counter-Nostalgia and Lifestyle in British
Daytime Television
Art and film
Dunks, Robert The case of Pollock, Pollock and Ed Harris: masculinity
and creative genius in a Hollywood film representation
Ellis, James The studio, the canvas and the screen in the films of Derek
Jarman
SATURDAY 3.30 - 4.45
Queering the 1990s
Holmlund, Chris Queering performance
Villarejo, Amy Queering authorship
McWilliam, Kelly Queering genre
The Pleasures of the Tube: Objects, Affects, Queerness
Davis, Glyn Push the Button: Phenomenology and Queer Television
Kooijman, Jaap Cruising the Channels: The Queerness of Zapping
Needham, Gary At Home with Queer Emotions: Television, Tears and
Masculinity
Sadism
Bull, Sofia The scientist and the sadist: tracing corporeal truth in the
city of sin
Cooling, Christopher The only way to know is to play: Gus Van Sant's Gerry,
Elephant and the ethics of game-based film narrative
Steenberg, Lindsay Profiling queerness: forensic psychology and the retelling
of the Leopold & Loeb case
Documentary
Rose, Chris Indexicality reconsidered: deceptive evidence in Capturing the
Friedmans
Druick, Zoe Postmodern or just sexual? The hidden (queer) truth of recent
documentaries
Youmans, Greg 'Merely Performative': Historicizing and Materializing Gay and
Lesbian Performative Documentary of the 1970s
Stars/gender/performance
Ligensa, Annemone Queer masquerade? Garbo, Dietrich, Brooks
Shingler, Martin Veiled allusions: queering the Bette Davis film
Thomas, Rosie Fearless Nadia: the woman with the whip
Adaptation
Geraghty, Christine Abandoning the book: the study of film adaptations
Knollmueller, Marit Francois Ozon as 'Popular Auteur': layered Intertextuality
in Water Drops on Burning Rocks
Pearl, Monica Epic AIDS: Angels in America from stage to screen
SATURDAY 5.00 - 6.30
Plenary 2
Street, Sarah CHAIR
Aaron, Michele Queer television theory, aka the ethics of sofa-spectatorship
Cho, Lily The futures of loss: Richard Fung's Sea in the Blood and
the materiality of melancholia
Hanson, Ellis Cinema a tergo: queer theory and Gus van Sant
SUNDAY 9.30 - 11.00
The City in Film project
Hallam, Julia CHAIR
Koeck, Richard Liverpool 1897: A. L. Promio's Cinematic Urban Space
Roberts, Les Mapping the Archive City: Urban Space and the Redemption
of an 'Incriminated Medium'
Kronenburg, Robert City in Film - Using Filmic Evidence to Inform
Contemporary Architectural and Urban Design
Transmissions of melodrama
O'Rawe, Catherine Neo-realism and the female star: Ingrid Bergman, Anna
Magnani, and the transmission of melodrama
Hipkins, Danielle The Italian woman's film: melodrama of the 1950s and the
female prostitute
Handyside, Fiona Melodrama for the new generation: the role of post-war
melodrama in contemporary French cinema
Bell-Williams, Melanie Realism, melodrama and female film criticism in
post-war British cinema: Freda Bruce Lockhart
Beyond Hollywood: transnational exchange & local alternatives
Eleftheriotis,Dimitris CHAIR
Potamitis, Nicholas Yugoslav partisan films and post-war Greek audiences
Larrain, Carolina Intangible boundaries, the quest for the national in
national cinemas and the queer in queer cinemas
Gurata, Ahmet Global Bollywood: The reception of Awara in Turkey
Treveri, Daniela Dispelling the myth: the popularity of American cinema
in post-war Italy
The queer afterimages of the Great War in Hollywood and Britain
Hammond, Michael 'Brother, It Ain't No Church Social' Queer
Characterisation in William Dieterle's The Last Flight
(1931)
Napper, Lawrence British Post-War Cinema and the 'Bacillus of Bigamy'
Williams, Michael 'Stricken Marble': Post-War Stardom, Sexuality and the
Classical Vernacular
Sexual representation as social change in China
Kinder, Marsha CHAIR
Wang, Chun-Chi New Wave in a Queer Way
Xu, Zhipeng Big Girl in the Small Screen: Chinese Reality Show Super
Girl and Cultural Change
Tan, Jia Chinese Queer Videos Beyond Visibility: The Politics of
Independent DV in the Era of Transnationalism
Falling in love again - romantic comedy in contemporary cinema
Jermyn, Deborah Love Story: The Rom-Com's Affair with NYC
Hines, Claire Armed and fabulous: Miss Congeniality's Queer Rom-Com
Abbott, Stacey Prom-Coms: Reliving the Dreams and Nightmares of High
School Romance
McCabe, Janet Lost in Transition: problems of modern (heterosexual)
romance and the Catatonic Male Hero
SUNDAY 11.30 - 1.00
Audiences/film festivals
Loist, Skadi Queerness of the screens: how queer are LGBT film festivals
in the US and Germany?
Jennings, Ros Living the 'L Life': an exploration of the televisual imagination
and everyday lesbian experiences
Sprio, Margherita Migrant translations: the films of Matarazzo remembered
Pullen, Chris French Queer Cinema: Gay Teen Identity, the Sad Young
Man and the Reflexive Self
Film form
Aston, James Movie-made memories: the potential of prosthetic memory in
uniting viewing communities
Brown, Tom Gender/spectacle/history: the case of Gone with the Wind
Sutton, Damian What can actor-network theory offer film studies?
Watkins, Liz Colour, shadows and the photographic in Don't Look Now
(Nic Roeg, 1973)
Queer migrations
Duncan, Derek 'Just as you want me': the economy of migrant desire in
recent Italian cinema
Papanikalaou, Dimitris New Queer Greece? Thinking identity through From the
Edge of the City (1998) and Head On (1998)
Malik, Amna Looking for Langston (1989) and the migration of the
avant-garde
Cervulle, Maxime & Rees-Roberts, Nick In the 'hood and out of the closet:
Arab Porn Production in France
Re-imagining the past: strategies of remembrance in South Korean cinema
Ahn, Soo Jeong 'We Have the Past!': Korean retrospectives at Pusan
International Film Festival (PIFF) in South Korea
Hwang, Yun Mi History, Heritage and Reinvention: South Korean Popular
Costume Drama
Ha, Seung Wu Beyond the logic of multiculturalism in a new global era:
Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary (2004) and Blood and
Bones (2004)
Kim, Dong Hoon The Crash of Blue Swallow: The Influence of the Nationalist
Historiography on the Contemporary Film Spectatorship in
South Korea
Queer romantic imaginaries on screen
Young , Damon Desire and its Dramas: the irony of (gay) love
Dines, Martin From Cul-de-sac to Open Road: Coming out American style
on the British screen
Rigoletto, Sergio 'What’s that woman doing there?': The Queer Love Triangle
in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Le fate ignoranti
Soila, Tytti Passion at the threshold: 'Doctor Glas' in Rune Carlstén and
Mai Zetterling's films
British film policy: historical perspective
McAllister, Kirsten Asylum in the home territories: images of escape and
containment
Meir, Christopher 'Supporting Artists of Genius': Lynne Ramsay, Authorship
and Policy
Honess Roe, Bella Transatlantic Cultural Exchange and British Film Policy:
Warner Brothers Teddington and the American Production
of British Quota Quickies
Caterer, James Reinventing the British Film Industry: the Group Production
Plan and the National Lottery Franchise Scheme
SUNDAY 2.15 - 3.45
Plenary 3
B. Ruby Rich, in conversation with Richard Dyer