[ecrea] 'Screening the Unreal': Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group event

This is a reminder that the Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group 
launch event, *Screening the Unreal*, takes place next Wednesday 4 July 
at Grand Parade.

This one-day symposium will explore film, television and digital media 
depictions of fantasy, horror, the supernatural, the futuristic, the 
weird and the uncanny.

Our line-up currently includes papers on early trick photography, 1980s 
fantasy film, Gothic videogames, avant-garde cinema, children’s 
television and online culture. The event will cover such media as the TV 
series /American Horror Story/, /Humans/, /Killjoys /and /Twin Peaks/, 
the films /Weird Science/, /The Wicker Man /and /Cuadecuc, Vampir/, and 
digital games /Forbidden Siren/, /Alien:Isolation /and /Gone Home/.The 
full programme is detailed below.

Please visit our new blog to find out more about the REG and this 
exciting launch event:
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*Screening the Unreal*
*Screen Studies Research and Enterprise Group Launch*

*1000-1120*
*"It’s Alive!": Horror and the Moving Image*
•Xavier Aldana-Reyes – Why Affect Matters: The Importance of Emotion and 
Somatics to the Study of the Horror Film
•Glenn Ward – Vampires in the Vanguard: When Pere Portabella Met Jesús 
Franco
•Darren Elliott-Smith – "Drag, Die, Repeat": Performative Pleasure and 
Queer Horror in /American Horror Story/

*1140-1300*
*Fantastic Cinema*
•Frank Gray – The Impossible: Early Film and the Representation of the 
Unreal
•Emma Withers – Disembodying Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre and 
Performance
•Holly Chard – "Don’t Ruin the Fantasy, Okay?": Teenage Masculinity and 
Fantasies of Womanhood in /Weird Science/

*1400-1520*
*Amazing Television*
•Sally Shaw – "The Past Threatens to Break in": /Sapphire and Steel/, 
Uncanny Spaces and ‘New Right’ Ideology
•Louise Fitzgerald – "Under His Eye": Ocularcentrism, Haptic Theory and 
/The Handmaid's Tale/
•Martin Fradley – "It is happening … again": Uncanny Repetition, Donald 
Trump and /Twin Peaks: The Return/

*1400-1520*
*"This Can’t be Happening": Gothic Video Games*
•Emily Jessica Turner – Trapped within the Victorian Gothic: How Video 
Games Reimagine /The Yellow Wallpaper/
•Rob Gallagher – Artificial Intelligence, Real Fear: Gothic Video Games 
and the Horror of Intelligent Machines
•Ewan Kirkland – "Nuke Possum Springs": /Night in the Woods/, Digital 
Storytelling and the Ludo-Gothic

*1540-1710*
*Contemporary Screen Science Fiction *
•Ali Williams – The Dutch-Aneela Effect:  Doppelgangers and Binary 
Opposition in SyFy’s /Killjoys/
•Patricia McManus – Dystopian 'Mobs': Politics and Form in /Black Mirror 
/ and /Bladerunner 2049/
•Aris Mousoutzanis – Science Fiction, Biopolitics and the Simulacrum: 
Channel 4’s /Humans /
•Christine Cornea – "For Queen, For Country, For Kicks": 
Post-Apocalyptic Patriotism, Youth and Gender in /Spooks: Code 9/

*1540-1700*
*"We Didn’t Burn Him!": Folk Horror and British Screen Cultures*
•Douglas McNaughton – Folk Horror in British Television Drama: The 
Pattern Under the Plough
•David Powell – Hesitation, Repetition and Deviation: The Temporal 
Nightmares and Haunted Landscapes of British Television
•Diane A. Rodgers – Why Wyrd? Why Folklore? Why Now?


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