[ecrea] Screen Cultures Conference - Birmingham City University

Birmingham City University’s Screen Cultures Research Cluster is 
delighted to welcome you to our inaugural Screen Cultures Conference, to 
be held at BCU on Tuesday 10 July 2018.


*Prof Lucia Nagib* (University of Reading) will present a keynote paper 
on ‘Beyond Representation: Feminist Mode of Production in Recent 
Brazilian Cinema’. This will be followed by a series of stimulating 
specialist papers on contemporary research in Screen Cultures. Subjects 
addressed are wide-ranging, and include novel data-driven investigations 
of Bollywood cinema and an exploration of the transnational dimensions 
of early Hungarian film. Alongside examinations of national and 
international screen cultures papers will also explore questions of 
identity position (including race, gender and sexuality), memory, the 
archive, affect and fan communities, among other topics. We are thrilled 
to be able to facilitate these presentations and the day promises to 
offer a fascinating insight into cutting edge, contemporary research 
within the field.


They are likely to be of interest both to senior colleagues and scholars 
in the early stages of their career.

Please register your attendance via our Eventbrite page here 
<https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/birmingham-city-university-screen-cultures-conference-2018-tickets-45816419143?aff=ebdssbdestsearch>. 
We have organised a conference dinner at Gusto 
<http://gustorestaurants.uk.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Evening_MenuA4_Web.pdf> and 
would appreciate an early indication of interest to establish numbers.


Please do also state any dietary and access requirements when you make 
your booking.


All enquiries should be directed to our dedicated email address: 
*(screenculturesbcu /at/ gmail.com)*

We look forward to seeing you at BCU!


About the keynote speaker:


*Prof Lucia Nagib* is Professor in Film at the University of Reading, 
where she directs the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures. Prof 
Nagib is the PI of the AHRC-FAPESP funded project, 'Towards an 
Intermedial History of Brazilian Cinema: Exploring Intermediality as a 
Historiographic Method' (short title: IntermIdia), which brings together 
scholars from the University of Reading (UoR) and the Federal University 
of São Carlos (UFSCar), as well as 3 PDRAs, combining expertise in 
cinematic intermediality, Brazilian cinema, film history, film theory, 
film and music, film and theatre, film and visual arts, and film and 
popular culture. More details here 
<http://www.reading.ac.uk/intermidia/>. As well as cinematic 
intermediality, Prof Nagib specialises in**world cinema theory, history 
and geography, and has published widely on these topics. Her most recent 
single authored book is /World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism/ (2011), 
in which she adopts a positive, democratic and inclusive approach to 
film studies, rejecting the usual binary division that posits world 
cinema against Hollywood, and instead defines a polycentric phenomenon 
with peaks of creation in different places and periods.


/The Screen Cultures Research Cluster forms part of the Birmingham 
Centre for Media and Culture Research, based with the School of Media in 
Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, at Birmingham City University. For 
more information on BCMCR go here <https://www.bcu.ac.uk/media/research>./


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