On November 16th Dr. Helen Wheatley gave an invited research seminar at the University of Sussex, on the representation of death and the dead on television. The abstract is below:

Television Death

This paper examines the representation of death and the dead on television. In doing so, it moves off from work on death on film to think about the ways in which television mediates death for its viewers, providing encounters with death which may be disturbing or reassuring, offering viewers the frisson of an engagement with our own mortality or holding death at a safe distance from everyday life. I will explore a series of ‘death genres’ on television, including the ‘human body’ documentary, the anatomy spectacular, and televisual encounters with assisted dying during this paper.

On Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 Dr. Karl Schoonover, along with his collaborator Dr. Rosalind Galt, will give a presentation entitled 'Queer Cinema and the spaces of Europe' in the School of Media, Film and Music, University of Sussex.

Schoonver and Galt are co-founders of the Global Queer Cinema website and research project.

The abstract of their paper is below:

Queer Cinema and the Spaces of Europe

Queer cinema creates worlds, intervening in existing debates on the national, transnational and global as well as envisioning new modes of being in the world. This talk will focus on how contemporary queer films imagine Europe, and how dissident gender and sexual identities intersect with persistent questions of European politics, spaces, and identities. We will analyse border-crossing films, considering how tropes of immigration and mobility articulate sexuality with race, nationality, and marginality within and outside the EU. Looking at representations of the Muslim queer, we ask how this cinematic figure responds both to liberal visions of Europe and to a broader global politics of borders, Islamophobia, and the war on terror. We also explore the transnational within Europe, considering how popular genre films intersect the politics of LGBT tolerance with issues of national identity, political violence, and human rights.

Earlier this summer, Schoonover was interviewed in Palermo along with his collaborator Professor Rosalind Galt about their ongoing work on the politics of queer world cinema. Schoonover and Galt were guest of Palermo's biggest annual film festival SiciliaQueer.

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The AHRC Project 'PRODUCERS AND PRODUCTION PRACTICES IN THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN CINEMA, 1949-75' will host an Open Workshop, on Wednesday 15 June 2016 in the Dept of Film & Television Studies, Millburn House, University of Warwick. The workshop is free and open to anyone interested in attending but please indicate your intention tok.schoonover@warwick.ac.uk before 7 June so that we can be sure to accommodate everyone.

For more information, including the schedule for the day, CLICK HERE.