UNIVERSITY of GLASGOW

Screen
 

Screen Studies Conference 2007

6-8 July 2007
University 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