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Practice research, knowledge exchange and HE (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2008, June). Practice research, knowledge exchange and HE. Paper presented at Journal of Media Practice, 4th Annual Symposium, University of Leeds, UK

This paper uses my practice research project on the impact of digital technology on feature film production to reflect on the implications of the current KTP or Knowledge Exchange agenda on media practice research and education.

Women, ageing and media workshops (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Dolan, J., Jenning, R., Garde Hansen, J., Gorton, K., Wilson, S., & Tincknell, E. (2008, June). Women, ageing and media workshops. Presented at AHRC funded Research Networks and Workshops: Women, Ageing and Media, http://insight.glos.ac.uk/researchmainpage/centres/wam/Pages/AHRCfundedResearchNetworksandWorkshopsProject.aspx

The Women, Ageing and Media (WAM) research group secured Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding in 2008 to run a series of workshops and an international conference in order to conduct a sustained investigation into proliferating print,... Read More about Women, ageing and media workshops.

Lilya 4 Ever and the trafficking of women (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Arthurs, J. (2008, June). Lilya 4 Ever and the trafficking of women. Presented at Lilya 4 Ever and the Trafficking of Women, Cube Cinema, Bristol

Invited speaker to introduce and chair subsequent discussion at screening of a film.

Film is digital (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2008, May). Film is digital. Presented at Invited research seminar, University of Bedfordshire

Presentation of practice research project on the impact of digital technologies on feature film production

The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, May). The bald and the beautiful: The performativity of Billy Zane. Paper presented at Cine-Excess II: The 2nd International Conference on Global Cult Film Traditions, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Analysis of Billy Zane's performance style in relation to the economics of contemporary filmmaking.

The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Johnson, C. (2008, May). The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency. Paper presented at Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, Ideas, Budapest, Hungary

This paper explores the idea of the embodied intellectual through notions of contact, impression and affect. Through my reading of Tracey Emin’s short film Why I Never Became a Dancer, 1995, I consider the relation of criticality to haptic visuality... Read More about The embodied intellectual: Impression and contact as political currency.

Digital futures: Digital decay (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C. (2008, April). Digital futures: Digital decay. Presented at MA Screen Studies, Specialised Film Exhibition, University of Bristol

Lecture to the MA Screen Studies unit in Specialised Cinema Exhibition on the impact of digital technology on feature film exhibition and distribution.

Proliferation, peristalsis and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital SF cinema (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, April). Proliferation, peristalsis and ejaculation: Reflections on narrative and spectacle in digital SF cinema. Presented at Narratives in Transition: Literary and Cultural Change since 1989 Conference, Institute of English Studies, University of London

This paper addresses the changing nature of the cinamatic experience in the era of blockbuster digital filmamking, using Transformers as its key example.

The Map as a Musical Score: Fantasies of Temporal Management and Resistance in 1930s London (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Hornsey, R. (2008, April). The Map as a Musical Score: Fantasies of Temporal Management and Resistance in 1930s London. Paper presented at Geographies of Rhythm, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, USA

Beyond the study of the contemporary moment, rhythmanalysis has great potential for the historical geographer. By drawing our attention to tempo and rhythm, it can reanimate the lifeless remains entombed within the archive (maps, diagrams, photograph... Read More about The Map as a Musical Score: Fantasies of Temporal Management and Resistance in 1930s London.

SF histories (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, March). SF histories. Presented at State of the Art: Science Fiction Histories Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

Mark Bould was one of four closing plenary panel members at this conference. The closing panel sumamrised the key ideas that emerged during the course of the conference and suggestions about their implications for future research.

Writing/Genre/History: Everyone else is wrong (and so am I) (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, March). Writing/Genre/History: Everyone else is wrong (and so am I). Presented at State of the Art: Science Fiction Histories Conference, Curtin University of Technology, Perth

An overview of the problems involved in writing a history of a genre, drawing on debates in contemporary historiography and science studies.

Tortured torsos: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008, March). Tortured torsos: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. Presented at Postgraduate Masterclass, Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Western Australia

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.

The very modern world of Fritz Lang (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M. (2008, March). The very modern world of Fritz Lang. Presented at The Very Modern World of Fritz Lang, Institute of Advanced Studies, The University of Western Australia

Taking Lang's films as the pulp wing of the Frankfurt School, this lecture demonstrated that although not a Marxist Lang developed a critique of capitalist urban/industrial modernity very similar in some respects to that of Theodor Adorno.

British and American photography: The post-romantic tradition (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Hammond, A. (2008, January). British and American photography: The post-romantic tradition. Presented at British and American Photography: The Post-Romantic Tradition, Sackler Centre, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Bould, M., & Vint, S. (2008, January). Fantastically fucked-up masculinity: Anorexic subjectivity in Fight Club and The Machinist. Paper presented at Postgraduate Research Seminar Series, Bristol Business School

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

The (mal)content generation: media practice in the digital environment (2008)
Presentation / Conference
Crofts, C., Abba, T., Hadzi, A., & Mapplebeck, V. (2008, January). The (mal)content generation: media practice in the digital environment. Presented at Practice Section Panel at MeCCSA 2008, University of Cardiff

In my role as Practice Section chair of MeCCSA I organised and chaired this panel bringing practice researchers and teachers together to discuss the impact of digital "content" on the field of media practice teaching and research.

Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go (2007)
Presentation / Conference
Bacon, T., & Brooks, K. (2007, October). Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go. Paper presented at 'Ageing Femininities: Representation, Identities, Feminism' Intenational Conference, UWE St Matthias campus