[ecrea] call for registration: Sex and the cinema, a film studies conference

FINAL CALL FOR REGISTRATION – (registration ends 1 December)

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*Sex and the Cinema – A /Film Studies/ journal conference*

10-11 December 2016

University of Kent

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 From the extremes of Disney canoodling at one end of the spectrum to 
pornography at the other, sex has always had a central role in moving 
images. This role has never been confined to representations in 
individual scenes, but has taken shape in every industrial and cultural 
aspect of their production, dissemination and consumption, from the 
Hollywood casting couch and red-light-district alleyways, to parked cars 
at drive-ins and the YouPorn user’s bedroom. So too has sex held a key 
position in film scholarship, aesthetics and the cognate disciplines 
that appraise moving images and their function in society. In recent 
years, this presence has only grown, in the form of key individual 
publications as well as burgeoning subfields (e.g., porn studies) and 
objects of inquiry (e.g., grindhouse programming).

As a substantial intervention into this ongoing research, the Aesthetics 
Research Centre, the Centre for Film and Media Research, and the journal 
/Film Studies/ will stage a major international conference at the 
University of Kent in Canterbury (UK), to be held 10-11 December 2016.

Keynote speakers:

•Prof. Daniel Biltereyst

•Prof. A.W Eaton

•Prof. Jon Lewis

•Jennifer Lyon Bell

The programme, which includes nearly 50 academics from the UK, Europe 
and beyond, is available at:

https://sexcinemaconference.wordpress.com/programme/

Registration (*ends 1 December*) is available at:

https://sexcinemaconference.wordpress.com/registration/


Dr Mattias Frey
Reader in Film
Managing Director, Centre for Film and Media Research
Director of Education, School of Arts
Co-Editor, /Film Studies/
University of Kent - Jarman School of Arts, 2-26 - Canterbury CT2 7UG - UK

NEW 2016: /Extreme Cinema: The Transgressive Rhetoric of Today's Art 
Film Culture/
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/extreme-cinema/9780813576510

NEW 2016: /Film Studies/ 13 & 14 on 'Institutions and Agency'
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/journals/film/

NEW IN PB 2016: /Cine-Ethics: Ethical Dimensions of Film Theory, 
Practice and Spectatorship/
https://www.routledge.com/Cine-Ethics-Ethical-Dimensions-of-Film-Theory-Practice-and-Spectatorship/Choi-Frey/p/book/9780415821254

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