In 2019 the SSSN ran its first Undergraduate Symposium featuring papers by Film Studies students at UNSW. In recognising the new and emerging voices of undergrad film students, the symposium explored the diverse approaches to screen studies across two sessions.
The discussions at the end of each session were chaired by the 2019 Undergraduate Representatives, Debbie Zhou and Katherine Zheng.
The event was held in Room 327, Robert Webster Building, UNSW at 4.30pm.
Session 1: Sexuality and hyperreality in the comedy
| Monroe v Tomlin: Is female comedy always about sexuality? | Phoebe Chan (UNSW) |
| Mad World: Hyperreality and the Neurotic Comic | Amanda Cataldo (UNSW) |
Session 2: The other-worldly possibilities of film
| Transnational and transcultural border crossing of the ‘onryo’in the horror films of Takashi Shimizu | Alex Malcolm (UNSW) |
| Hearing Chris Marker’s World | Melvin Kwong (UNSW) |
| ‘Tales of little people’: Subalternity and postcolonial power in Djibril Diop Mambéty’s‘La petite vendeuse de Soleil (1999) | Surabhi Naik (UNSW) |
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