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Globalised labour and world Sf cinema (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, November). Globalised labour and world Sf cinema. Paper presented at The Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS

Class, control and clones (panel discussion) (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2011, August). Class, control and clones (panel discussion). Presented at Class, Control and Clones’, Out of this World exhibition, British Library, London, UK

Editors panel (2010)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2010, March). Editors panel

Introducing Waltz with Bashir (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, October). Introducing Waltz with Bashir. Presented at Compass of Desire Film Festival, Trinity Centre, Bristol

This short talk introduces the feature-length Lebanese animation, Waltz with Bashir.

Insects and intentions: Imamura's women (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, October). Insects and intentions: Imamura's women. Presented at Pigs, Eels and Insects: Reassessing the Legacy of Shohei Imamura, Arnolfini, Bristol

This paper explores Imamura's response to post-war socio-cultural changes in Japan that stem from the 'female equality' provisions in the US-authored constitution and the US's ideological attack on the traditional Japanese family structure.

Powell, Pressburger and Peeping Tom (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, September). Powell, Pressburger and Peeping Tom. Presented at The Screen at Hay Festival of British Cinema, Hay-on Wye, Hay-on-Wye

This talk provided a career overview of Powell, especially his collaborations with Pressburger, and a critical introduction to Peeping Tom in relation to Powell's other films, genre and psychoanalytic theory.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, June). Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market. Presented at 'The Future Ain't What it Used to Be: Interactions of Past, Present and Future in Literature and Visual Media' Conference, University of Dundee

This keynote address argues that sf has long been engaged in mapping - often unconsciously - the processes of globalisation and empire. It illustrates this argument with analyses of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas and the Wachows... Read More about Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Matrix: Imagineering the world market.

Serial infidelities and extraordinary renditions: The many lives of Flash Gordon (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, May). Serial infidelities and extraordinary renditions: The many lives of Flash Gordon. Paper presented at Science Fiction across Media: Adaptation/Novelisation Conference, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven

This paper argues for a fresh approach to adaptation studies, using the example of a cross-media franchised character/universe to urge a move away from the fidelity fallacy and towards an understanding of adaptations as ‘supplements’ in Derrida’s Read More about Serial infidelities and extraordinary renditions: The many lives of Flash Gordon.

The cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, May). The cinema of John Sayles: From Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again. Presented at Marxism and Culture Seminar Series, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London

A critical introduction to John Sayles, with Silver City as its primary example, this paper discusses the relationship between his films and American naturalist traditions, and explores language as a site of material resistance.

The parapraxes of globalisation: Jules Verne and the unconscious of science fiction (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, May). The parapraxes of globalisation: Jules Verne and the unconscious of science fiction. Paper presented at Extraordinary Voyages: Jules Verne and Beyond - the 2009 J. Lloyd Eaton Conference, University of California at Riverside

This essay argues that sf has long been engaged in mapping – often unconsciously – the processes of globalisation and empire. It illustrates this argument with an analysis of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas.

The cinema of John Sayles: from Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again (2009)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2009, March). The cinema of John Sayles: from Billy Zane to Brecht and Bakhtin, and back again. Paper presented at Research Seminar, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading

A critical introduction to John Sayles, with Silver City as its primary example, this paper discusses the relationship between his films and American naturalist traditions, and explores language as a site of material resistance.

The thin men: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008, November). The thin men: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. Paper presented at The Fith Annual Historical Materialism Conference, University College, London

Taking anorexia as a model of subjectivity under contemporary capital, this paper analyses the noir protagonists of Fight Club and The Machinist and their relationships to power, labour and their own bodies.

Staging the limits to knowledge: Cognition, estrangment and spectacle in 2001: A Space Odyssey (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, October). Staging the limits to knowledge: Cognition, estrangment and spectacle in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Paper presented at Film & History Biennial: Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries, and Beyond Conference, University of Chicago

Beginning by questioning the possibility of judging relative scale and postion in the famous final image of the 2001, this paper challenges Carl Freedman's influential argument about the possibility of spectacle generating cognitive estrangement.