This session turns to the visual world to explore the themes of virtues and vices through the concept of ‘taste.’
Project Category: Cinematography
Borders, Boundaries & Bodies: Exploring Cosmopolitanism in and across Iranian Cinema
In this talk, we’ll travel to contemporary Iranian cinema, to explore the ways borders, boundaries, and bodies intersect to get us to think about cosmopolitanism.
The On-Screen Anti-Hero
This session will consider the rising popularity of the anti-hero across film and television and to some extent, computer gaming.
Idols, Icons and Stars: Exploring Visual Activism Across Film and Media
In this talk we will discuss our cultural idols, who we fall in love with: fictional characters in films, as well as, the artists who shape those roles.
Childhood on Screen: Exploring Allegories in Iranian and World Cinema
In this talk we will explore how Iranian and world cinema has turned to the child as a significant figure and an allegory to explore social issues.
Death of the Sitcom?
This session will explore the role streaming services play in televised comedy and whether the concept and impact of the sitcom remains significant or a relegation of nostalgia.
From Giggles to Insight: Comedy’s Role in Tackling Tough Topics
Comedy is one of the most popular genres in film and television. In this talk, we look at comedy in film and TV, its functions, and its possibilities.
In Plain Sight: (Un)Hidden Sexuality in Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948)
This session will discuss the use of metaphor throughout Rope along with Hitchcock’s concurrently advanced and adverse representations of queer characters, which are simultaneously progressive for having centre- stage but also problematic for being villainous.
The Un(comfortableness) of the Point-of-View Shot in Cinema and Gaming
This session will consider the uncomfortableness of the subjective point-of-view shot and direct address in narrative cinema, and how it presents an awkward and uncomfortable space for the viewer to inhabit.
Pleasure and Pain in Cult Cinema – A Case Study in ‘The Wicker Man’
Drawing on footage shot for the upcoming documentary Children of The Wicker Man, this talk will consider the ways in which audiences and fans of the film have spent the past fifty years trying to understand every aspect of how this remarkable film came into being.
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