Please join us for an exciting program of fortnightly seminars, and film and television screenings this semester.
Intersections in Film and Media Studies will explore 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 will explore the transitional nature of contemporary screen studies and the movement of scholarship, theory, and ideas across its boundaries.
Participants are encouraged to remain afterwards for refreshments and discussion. These events are free and all are welcome, including undergraduates, postgraduates, staff and members of the public.
| Wed 8th March | When File-Sharing Isn’t Piracy: Formalising Peer-To-Peer Distribution | Lauren Carroll Harris (UNSW) |
| Wed 22nd March | Phenomenology and Contemporary Film Consumption | Dr. Karina Aveyard (USyd) |
| Wed 5th April | Nostalgia, Representation and Transgression in Disney Princess Culture | Emily Chandler (UNSW) |
| Wed 26th April | The Social Life of Films: An Alternative Perspective on Informal Film Circulation |
Mahsa Salamati (UNSW) |
| Wed 3rd May | Bedevil in the Details: Australian Experimental Film in the Era of New Media | Dr. Maura Edmond |
| Wed 10th May | Inside the ‘Open-Image’: Virtual Reality Cinema as a Medium of Ethical Experience
NB: This session will be held at WSU Campus, One Parramatta Square, 169 Macquarie St, Parramatta (on the corner of Macquarie Street and Smith Street), Room PC 01.4.55 (LS) |
Adam Daniel (WSU) |
| Wed 24th May | A Crysis of Perspective: (S)pawning Subjectivity in Interactive Media | Ben Eldridge (USyd) |
All SSSN Events are held in Room 327, Robert Webster Building UNSW at 5pm, unless otherwise stated.
A map of the UNSW Kensington Campus can be found here.
A Google map of the UNSW Kensington campus can be found here.
Buses to UNSW from Central Station
- 339 Central Station on Foveaux St just east of Elizabeth St.
- 372 Central Station
- 373 Museum Station
- 374 Central Station
- 376 Museum Station
- 377 Museum Station
- Metrobus 10 (M10) – Leichhardt to Maroubra Junction via Anzac Parade
- Metrobus 50 (M50) – Drummoyne to Coogee via the City, Anzac Parade and High Street.
Sydney Screen Studies Network 