The second Dial S for Screen Studies was held at the School of Arts and Media, UNSW Australia on 28-29 November 2019.
The 2019 keynote was Sue Turnbull (UOW) “This is Your Worst Nightmare”: Reimagining Screen Entertainment and the Practice of Audiencing
Stuart Bender (Curtain) Workshop: Combining Screen Theory and Psychophysiological Approaches to Understanding Audience Response
Daniel Binns (RMIT) Time/Code: A Material Approach to Media-making
Max Bledstein (UNSW) Raha’s Revenge: The Final Girl of Fereydoun Jeyrani’s Parkway
Jodi Brooks (UNSW) Critical Remains: The Queer Art of Failure in Lisa Cholodenko’s High Art (1998)
Noel Burgess (WSU and MU) When Everything Can Change – A practice Led Investigation of the Implications of Non-linear Production Technology on Music Composition for Screen Media
Luke Cromer and Luke Robinson (USyd and UNSW) Workshop: Futurity: theories of screen’s future, the future of screen theory and practice
Charles DaCosta (QUT) Workshop: Presently Practising the Past: Deploying [Animation] History for a harmonious theorem-praxis nexus
Charles daCosta (QUT) Blacking our Face: The Problematic Paradox of Absence and Approximation of Blackness in Implementations of Facial Recognition Technology
Adam Daniel (UWS) Cruise as Father and Son
Imran Firdaus (UTS) Gaspar Noé’s Neon-Noir: The Poetics of Transgression
Kathrin Friedrich (UM and UHH) Moving Evil Heroes: Approaching Character Engagement by Considering the Influence of Nonverbals and Aesthetic Choices
Harry Gay (USyd) Hollywood, Time and the Robotic Body: A Close Analysis of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049
Catherine Gough-Brady (RMIT) The Transgressive Form of the Digital Paper
Rhiannon Hall (UNSW) Vengeance on the New Frontier: Understanding the Western Through Taylor Sheridan’s ‘frontier trilogy’
Essi Haukkamaa-Judge (UOW) Borders in International Feature Film Co-production
Lara Holmes (USyd) Comedic Rage as Feminist Resistance
Alison Horbury (UOM) The Real Gaze of Australian Cinema: A History Told ‘beneath the bar’
Tim Laurie (UTS) Decisions Without Choices: Morality, Materialism and the Event in Films of the Dardenne Brothers
Phoebe Macrossan (QUT) Exploring Celebrity Soundscapes and Voice Acting Through Owen Wilson’s ‘wow’
Cindy E. Magara (USyd and Mak) Representation of Gender Power Relations in Contemporary East African Films
Gabiann Marin (AFTRS, MU and JMC Academy) The Hidden Goddess: Celebration and Erasure of the Goddess in DC’s Cinematic Wonder Woman and Comparative Contemporary Superhero Narratives
Mazda Moradabbasi (UNSW) Adaptation in Iranian New Wave Cinema
Patricia Di Risio (UOM and MON) Punishing Women Horror Directors: The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent 2018)
Michelle Royer and Benjamin Nickl (USyd) “National” Film Festivals in Australia: Understudied but Important Players in Australia’s Multiculture/multilingual Scene
Mahsa Salamati (UNSW) A Transnational Encounter with the Iranian Cinema: Towards Understanding the Festival Experience
Nima Sotoudeh (USyd) Cinema Lives: Film Criticism in the Digital Age
Naomi Telushkin (UNSW) Workshop: No Zombies, No Dragons, No Serial Killers: The Teleplay as Literature and Pedagogies of Contemporary Screenwriting
Lihong Wu (UNSW) Socialist Time and Socialist Cinema in China
Sydney Screen Studies Network 