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War orphans in technicolour: Joseph Losey's The Boy with Green Hair (1948) (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Lawrence, M. (2009, July). War orphans in technicolour: Joseph Losey's The Boy with Green Hair (1948). Paper presented at Colour and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics Archive, University of Bristol Conference, Arnolfini, Bristol

An analysis of the representation of the war orphan and the use of Technicolor in Joseph Losey’s The Boy with Green Hair.

Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Thirkell, P., & Hoskins, S. (2009, July). Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print. Paper presented at The Art of Appropriation & Kurt Schwitters in England, University of Chester

This paper will examine the incidence of appropriation and re-representation that emerged in fine art image and object making during the early 20th century. It specifically aims to trace the role of emerging forms of technology in facilitating new wa... Read More about Through the Glass Darkly – Appropriation, Remaking and Representation through Print.

Understanding film production: Michael Klinger and the new film history (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Spicer, A. H. (2009, July). Understanding film production: Michael Klinger and the new film history. Presented at Researching Film History Symposium, Geological Society, London, UK

This paper explored a wider debate about the epistemology and ontology of film history. Using the Michael Klinger papers, it offered an original exploration of an unknown history: his attempt to produce a Jewish epic war film based on the Dieppe Raid... Read More about Understanding film production: Michael Klinger and the new film history.

Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004) (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Tuck, G. (2009, July). Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004). Paper presented at 2nd Film Philosophy Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland

This paper uses the cinema of Tuskamoto Shinya to discuss Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept of the ‘flesh’. Flesh rejects the ontological antinomy between the empirical and the rational, our determination by either matter or ideas, in favour of a more... Read More about Love, death and flesh: Ontological antinomies in Tuskamoto Shinya's Vital (2004).

Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Biggs, I. (2009, June). Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence. Paper presented at AHRC Landscape and Environment Living Landscapes Conference, Aberystwyth, Wales

Performing Geographies of Love – landscape between presence and absence is an extended critical reflection on a forthcoming paper by the cultural geographer John Wylie that seeks to resist the use of philosophical positions to annex/belittle the “enc... Read More about Performing geographies of love - landscape between presence and absence.

Prints that fly (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Hoskins, S. (2009, June). Prints that fly. Presented at Talking prints Lecture Series Lancashire Artists Network, University of Central Lancashire, University of Central Lancashire

Prints That Fly: My prints are as much about the craft of making, as they are a gentle delight in challenging the notions of what constitutes a print and where the perceived borders between the fine and applied arts, end and begin. In the UK there... Read More about Prints that fly.

Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Parraman, C. (2009, June). Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art. Presented at Science Café, Explore, Bristol

Invited lecture for Science Café given at Explore, At-Bristol, 9 June 2009. Have you considered why the swatch colour you take to the paint shop appears very different to the final painted wall? Differences between how a colour is measured and how... Read More about Does this look right? The science of colour appearance in art.

Flesh/Films: Mainstream movies, embodiment and sexuality (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Tuck, G. (2009, June). Flesh/Films: Mainstream movies, embodiment and sexuality. Presented at Plymouth Arts Centre Film Academy Seminar Series, Plymouth, England

After outlining the four most dominant modes through which film studies examines sex in the movies (sexual stereotyping, psychoanalysis and issues of unconscious desire, the performance of normativity, and developments in censorship), the lecture off... Read More about Flesh/Films: Mainstream movies, embodiment and sexuality.

Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War (2009)
Presentation / Conference
D'Monté, R. (2009, June). Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War. Paper presented at Drama Research Seminar (in conjunction with Cultural History Group), Unviersity of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, England

Plays of the Second World War can be described as middlebrow. They work through a process of ‘the pleasure of familiarity’, where the choice of genre, whether of family comedy, domestic drama, or thriller, make them the perfect medium through which t... Read More about Domesticating propaganda and subversion: Women dramatists during the Second World War.