[ecrea] Film After Thatcher Symposium: Gender and Sexuality in post-1990 British Cinema - 2 July

One-Day Symposium

Film After Thatcher: Gender and Sexuality in post-1990 British Cinema

Wednesday 2 July – Liverpool Hope University

Registration, Tea/Coffee 11:30-12


Opening Keynote 12-1

Christine Geraghty (University of Glasgow)

Confronting the Iron Lady – reflections on British Cinema after Thatcher



Lunch 1-1:45



Panel 1 1:45-3:15

Justine Ashby (University of Huddersfield)

Painting the Town Red: Female Friendship Films in the Post-Thatcher Era



Julia Hallam (University of Liverpool)

Illicit desires: constructing female sexuality in British Cinema 2000-2010



Josie Dolan (University of the West of England, Bristol)

Sexing it Up!: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and the crisis of aging in a privatised economy



Tea/Coffee 3:15-3:30


Panel 2 3:30-5

Elena Boschi (Liverpool Hope University)

‘Where you from, you sexy thing’: Popular Music, Space, and Masculinity in The Full Monty



Robin Griffiths (University of Gloucestershire)

"A journey without direction": Mapping British queer cinema post-Jarman



Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope University)

Real men don't dance: uneasy versions of masculinity and sexuality in Billy Elliot


Closing Keynote 5-6

Claire Monk (De Montfort University)

Messing with masculinities: post-Thatcherite British cinema’s other men since the 1990s


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For information (emailboschie /at/ hope.ac.uk)

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