A one day symposium, Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century, takes place in the Powell Lecture Theatre, Canterbury Christ Church University, on June 9th 2017.
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Symposium: Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century
Dr James Newton is organising a one day symposium exploring the individual films, cycles, genres and traditions of exploitation cinema since the turn of the century in the School of Media Art and Design, Canterbury Christ Church University.
Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century
For more information email james.newton@canterbury.ac.uk.
To register for the event please visit http://shop.canterbury.ac.uk/product-catalogue/media-art-and-design/media-art-and-design/exploitation-cinema-in-the-21st-century-symposium
Dialogic Imaginations
Bryan Hawkins is curating Dialogic Imaginations, a series of practice-based research events within the School of Media Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University. The first two events are:
James Frost on Jan Švankmajer
Senior Lecturer in Art, James Frost, has published an article on the Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer. It is available to read through open access.
Research Seminar: Dr Anna Claydon (University of Leicester) on The Creative Other: Music and Disability in Film
Dr Anna Claydon will be visiting Canterbury to discuss Music and Disability in Film.
Canterbury Christ Church University
School of Media Art and Design
Research Seminars 2016-2017
11 January 2017
1.00pm-2.15pm
The Creative Other: Music and Disability in Film
Speaker: Dr Anna Claydon (University of Leicester)
In this paper, Anna Claydon (from the School of Media, Communication and Sociology, University of Leicester) will examine how creativity is used to give voice and build agency for characters with disabilities in music films. Drawing on case studies of Sex ‘n’ Drugs ‘n’ Rock ‘n’ Roll (Whitecross, 2010) and Ray (Hackford, 2004) she will investigate the representational tropes and politicisation of the performer with disabilities through music within the context of considering the narrative functions of the characters as outsiders and the traditions of representing disability in film more broadly.
Dr Anna Claydon has taught at the University of Leicester since 2006 and teaches the last remaining music modules in the University as well as leading the film provision in the School. She is College PGT Manager and Director of IDeoGRAMS (the Interdepartmental Group for Research into Art, Media and Society). Her PhD (University of Kent) was on masculinity in 1960s British films but in addition to currently working on film music/music in film and disability she is working on the representation of artificial humans (with geneticist Chris Willmott) and digital devotionals (with Media colleague Jo Whitehouse-Hart) and editing a special edition of The Soundtrack on transmedia musics.
Powell Building – Pf06
North Holmes Road Campus
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
— All welcome —
Feel free to bring your lunch!
Symposium: Exploitation Cinema in the 21st Century
Dr James Newton is organising a symposium on contemporary exploitation cinema at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Research Seminar: 9 November 2016 – Sinéad Murphy
Sinéad Murphy (King’s College, London) will talk about Palestinian artist, photographer, filmmaker and installation artist Larissa Sansour as part of our research seminar series.
Canterbury Christ Church University
School of Media Art and Design
Research Seminars 2016-2017
9 November 2016
1.00pm-2.15pm
Producing the nation:
Larissa Sansour’s Dystopian Visions of Palestine
Speaker: Sinéad Murphy (King’s College, London)
Ideas of nation and politics of self-determination have long dominated representations of the Palestinian-Israel conflict, to the extent that “the conflict is understood primarily as a clash between ‘narratives’” (Anna Bernard) – a clash which artists, writers and filmmakers are frequently expected to negotiate. Utilising what she describes as the “odd mix of nostalgia and accomplishment” which science fiction affords, Larissa Sansour creates and interrogates narrations of the nation in Palestine and Israel through film, photography and installation. Sansour’s dystopian visions reinvigorate long-standing questions of identity and belonging in the context of conflict and displacement in Palestine.
Sinéad Murphy is a third-year PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature in King’s College, London. Her research is an AHRC LAHP-funded project on contemporary Arab speculative fiction in English. She completed her BA and MA degrees in University College Dublin, Ireland. She is the administrator for the Kings Fantastic Talks series, and the co-organiser of the Department of Comparative Literature 2016 PGR conference, Seeking Refuge (http://seekingrefugekcl.com/). Her primary research interests include science and speculative fiction, contemporary Middle Eastern literature, postcolonial theory, and theories of comparative and world literature.
Email: sinead.murphy@kcl.ac.uk; https://kcl.academia.edu/SinéadMurphy; http://www.lahp.ac.uk/sinead-murphy/ Twitter: @S1nead_Murphy.
Powell Building – Pf06
Canterbury Christ Church University
North Holmes Road Campus
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
Email Dr Andrew Butler – Andrew.Butler@canterbury.ac.uk – for further details
— All welcome —
Feel Free to Bring Your Lunch!
Ken Fox and The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Dr Ken Fox is delighted to be going back to his hometown to speak at the Allingham Arts Festival in Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Republic of Ireland, on Saturday 5 November 2016 in the Abbey Arts Centre where he spent many, many nights attending the cinema during the 1970s. “It’s like going back to the source” says Ken.
Ken is givin
g a talk on The Fighting Prince of Donegal (O’Herlihy, 1966) following the free screening of the film at 10.30-12.20 — his talk is at 12.45-1.45.
Ken is really looking forward to seeing old friends and hopefully some members of the audience who, like him, saw the film when it first came out in 1966.
The Festival is a wonderful four days of events, talks, workshops, lectures, screenings with the highlight of hearing the brilliant Irish novelist Anne Enright speak about her writing.
http://www.allinghamfestival.com/saturday-3.
http://www.allinghamfestival.com
Dr Ken Fox is Principal Lecturer in the School of Media, Art and Design. Ken teaches modules on American Cinema in the Film, Radio and Television Programme and in the American Studies Programme. In Year 2 he teaches a module on American Independent Cinema introducing students to a range of films that reflect the relationship between mainstream and independent films. His Year 3 Cinematic City module; in particular, reflects his current research interests, as Ken’s PhD focused on Cinematic Visions of Los Angeles. Ken has been a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2007. His chapter, “In praise of the inauthentic: the cinematic landscape of The Fighting Prince of Donegal” appeared in Graeme Harper and Jonathan Rayner’s Film Landscapes: Cinema, Environment and Visual Culture (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013).
Research Seminar 12 October 2016: Tim Jones
Tim Jones will be presenting the world premiere of his documentary about Peter Watkins, director of The War Game and Punishment Park.
Chevalier Q + A
Dr Andrew M. Butler will be taking part in a post-film discussion of Chavalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari, 2015) at Trinity, Tunbridge Wells, on 27 September 2016 at 8.00pm.
A Greek film about six competitive men on a fishing trip aboard a luxury yacht in the middle of the Aegean Sea, Chavalier is a dark comedy about masculinity. Butler will be joining Sam Marlow to discuss the history, influence and relevance of dark comedic films and their importance to our society in the bar after the screening.
Sam Marlow is a writer, director and producer who works on feature films, shorts, web series, stage and page. He owns and runs a number of small production companies and is the Artistic Director of the Electric Lantern Festival, a week-long film and video festival that takes place in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
Andrew M. Butler, senior lecturer in the School of Media Art and Design at Canterbury Christ Church University, is author of Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (2011), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2014), “Human Subjects/Alien Objects? Abjection and the Constructions of Race and Racism in District 9” in Alien Imaginations (2015), “Sleeping/Waking: Politicizing the Sublime in Science Fiction Film Special Effects” in Endangering Science Fiction Film (2015), as well as books on Philip K. Dick, Cyberpunk, Terry Pratchett, Postmodernism and Film Studies. He is coeditor of Extrapolation. He is the non-voting chair of judges for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. In his spare time, he investigates real ale and collects shiny trousers.
Tickets for the screening are available here.