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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 Department wishes to compile a permanent online tribute to V.F. Perkins that will be published over the coming weeks. If you would like to add an appreciation or any thoughts, recollections and anecdotes about Victor that you would like others to read, please contact James MacDowell at James.MacDowell@warwick.ac.uk

The Department of Film and Television Studies notes with great sadness that the co-founder of the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, Professor V.F.Perkins, has passed away.

Victor made an immeasurable contribution to the development of Film Studies in the UK and the English speaking world and will be remembered by generations of students, scholars and colleagues for his compassionate and insightful wisdom, critical insight, and generous spirit of intellectual enquiry.

For all of us who fell under the spell of his work, he helped us to see and think more clearly.

Alastair Phillips