Globalised labour and world Sf cinema
(2011)
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Spectres are haunting Europe: Contemporary cinemas of the fantastic (2011)
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What does our future look like? Visualising science fiction (panel discussion) (2011)
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Class, control and clones (panel discussion) (2011)
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Science Fiction Foundation’s Sf criticism masterclass weekend tutor (2011)
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Border crossings: Labour in contemporary world Sf cinema (2011)
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Apes and alcoholics, duplicates and dreams: Enrolling film noir (2010)
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Editors panel (2010)
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“If it had a grave I’d spit on it”: Flash Gordon and the fidelity fallacy (2010)
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Science fiction, globalisation and the logic of capital (2009)
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Introducing Waltz with Bashir (2009)
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This short talk introduces the feature-length Lebanese animation, Waltz with Bashir.
Insects and intentions: Imamura's women (2009)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
Journal editors' panel (2008)
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After providing an overview of the journal I co-edit, and the processes through which submissions go, I then participated in a chaired discussion (along with other journal editors who had made similar presentations) geared towards an audience of grad... Read More about Journal editors' panel.