In 2018 the SSSN Symposium gained a new identity: Dial S for Screen Studies. The first Dial S for Screen Studies was held at the School of Arts and Media, UNSW Australia on 12-13 December 2018.
The 2018 keynote was Karen Pearlman (MU) Creative practice, cognition and feminist film histories
Craig Batty (UTS) The screenwriting PhD: How candidates articulate the screenplay as a contribution to knowledge
Craig Batty and Bettina Frankham (UTS) Exploring a new era of screen production research: Laying foundations of engagement and impact
Amy Boyle (UOW) “Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches”: The Handsmaid’s Tale as transmedia feminism
Renée Brack (UTS/SAE) Scripting for screen and space: How alternative exhibition formats such as Virtual Reality are impacting poetic documentary
Max Bledstein (UNSW) Queering the gaze: ‘Visual pleasure’ in Todd Haynes’s Carol
Megan Carrigy (NYU) Collisions, cinematic virtual reality and Sundance’s new frontier
Adam Daniel (UWS) Like flowers in water: The cine-writing of Shane Carruth
Cedric van Eenoo Screening: &
Cedric van Eenoo An Image Story
Gregory Ferris (UTS) Embodiment and Empathy in VR
Jessica Ford (UON) Television authorship and feminism in Sharp Objects (2018)
Dave Hare (DKU) Expanding the Menu – D3D Uptake
Laura Henderson (UOM) The animated body knows no limits: Analysing kinesthetic empathy in Satoshi Kon’s Paprika
Alison Horbury (UOM) Utility and sovereignty in (quality) television aesthetics: The case of Killing Eve
Zach Karpinellison (UNSW) The ideologically aligned spectator: Censorship and change in Hollywood films released in China
Charu Maithani (UNSW) Screening operations: Considering the gestures of screens
Sharon Jane Mee (UNSW) in response to Henderson and Peng
Move in Pictures Screenings: Experiment 1b: Newton (2017); Etty (2017)
Timothy Laurie (UTS) On narrative capture: Rescripting K-pop masculinities in Korean action cinema
Holly Lyons (AFTRS) The Science of Pitching Workshop
Parichay Patra (BITS Pilani) Transnational cinema studies and interdisciplinarity: A South Asian intervention
Erin Pearson (UEA) Situating stars: Publicity, place, and the indie stardom of Chlöe Sevigny
Zhenzhu Peng (UQ) Two approaches to cinematic emotions: Cognitive film theory and reception
Luke Robinson (UNSW) A site of, and for, horror: the disappearing face in the Hollywood crime film
Melanie Robson (UNSW) Interrogating singleshot Film
Carey Ryan (Griffith Film School) Empathy is the devil: Employing conventions and themes of early cinema in contemporary practice
Nicole Talmacs (XJTLU) Australian-Chinese film exchange and collaboration: Concern and Challenges
Sydney Screen Studies Network 