2017 Seminar Program: Intersections in Film and Media Studies

Here you can find the program and links to podcasts from the seminars held as part of the SSSN 2017 program. In 2017 the seminar series had an umbrella theme: Intersections in Film and Media Studies.

Intersections in Film and Media Studies explored the state of contemporary screen studies and screen culture. Developments in digital technologies, as well as rapid changes in production, distribution, and consumption patterns, mean that ‘cinema’ is an increasingly fluid term that moves across platforms, genres, and textual boundaries. Screen culture is also an inescapable part of the contemporary media environment, with a plethora of media objects moving across a variety of screens, technologies, and devices. Cinema and screen studies likewise possess a fluidity that encourages interdisciplinary approaches and collaboration. This program explored the transitional nature of contemporary screen studies and the movement of scholarship, theory, and ideas across its boundaries.

Each podcast episode features a film or media scholar presenting their cutting-edge research in the form of a short talk. The talk is followed by a Q&A session with another scholar in the field, who opens up the discussion to the audience present on the day. This podcast is made possible by the kind support of the School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Sydney.

All SSSN Events are held in Room 327, Robert Webster Building UNSW at 5pm, except for those held at WSU Parramatta City Campus (*), UTS Building 5 (**), Woolley Common Room, University of Sydney (***), and Macquarie University, E7B Building (^).

Semester 1

8th March	When File-Sharing Isn’t Piracy: Formalising Peer-To-Peer Distribution	Lauren Carroll Harris (UNSW)
22nd March	Phenomenology and Contemporary Film Consumption	Dr. Karina Aveyard (USyd)
5th April	Nostalgia, Representation and Transgression in Disney Princess Culture	Emily Chandler  (UNSW)
26th April	The Social Life of Films: An Alternative Perspective on Informal Film Circulation	Mahsa Salamati  (UNSW)
3rd May	Bedevil in the Details: Australian Experimental Film in the Era of New Media	Dr. Maura Edmond
10th May	Inside the ‘Open-Image’: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience*	Adam Daniel (WSU)
24th May	A Crysis of Perspective: (S)pawning Subjectivity in Interactive Media	Ben Eldridge (USyd)

Semester 2

1st August	Vellaikkaariya? – Constructing Amy Jackson, Nativity and Whiteness in Tamil Cinema	Meenaatchi Saverimuttu (MU)
5th August	Gendered Vulnerability in Transnational Action Cinema: xXx, The Great Wall, and Kung Fu Yoga**	Tim Laurie (UTS)
9th August	Reframe: Considering Screens to Reconfigure Postmedia	Charu Maithani  (UNSW)
9th September	Early Cinema’s Traffic in Sexuality: White Slave Films in Australia, 1911-1917***	Susan Potter (USyd)
10th October	Sonic Islands on Screen: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Popular Music and Youth Culture in Contemporary Cinema	Kate Bolgar Smith (University of London)
4th October	New Intimate Cinema Spaces^	Rebecca Lelli (MU)
7th November	Examining Chinese Cinema Audiences’ Opinions Through User-Generated Content: A Case Study of The Mermaid	Kai Soh (UOW)

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