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SUMMARY:Calling the Shots: Constructing Histories of Contemporary Women Filmmakers in the UK
DESCRIPTION:Film\, Theatre and Television Research Seminar series. \nDr Shelley Cobb and Prof. Linda Williams \nDr. Shelley Cobb is the Principle Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK\, 2000-2015. Shelley is an Associate Professor of Film at the University of Southampton. Her main areas of research and teaching expertise are in women and film (both production and representation)\, gender and popular culture\, celebrity studies and adaptation. Her articles and chapters on women filmmakers\, gender and contemporary Hollywood\, film adaptation\, and celebrity culture appear in a range of journals as well as edited collections. In 2015 she published her first monograph Adaptation\, Authorship and Contemporary Women Filmmakers (Palgrave Macmillan). \nProf. Linda Ruth Williams is the Co-Investigator of Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK\, 2000-2015. Linda is Professor in Film Studies at Exeter University. She has written five books and edited or co-edited several others\, including The Erotic Thriller in Contemporary Cinema\, Contemporary American Cinema (co-edited with Michael Hammond) and others. Linda Ruth Williams has always worked on gender and culture\, and has a longstanding interest in representations of sexuality and the history of censorship and classification.
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/calling-the-shots/
LOCATION:Palmer Building\, Room G05
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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SUMMARY:Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures: Hitchcock's Mountain - technologies of engagement in North by Northwest
DESCRIPTION:The relation between film spectatorship\, perceptual and emotional engagement\, and special effects is explored in light of a signal achievement from the late 1950s\, Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest\, specifically the celebrated Mt. Rushmore chase sequence. What are some of the production and dramaturgical issues involved in having two protagonists scaling the face of this monument? \nMurray Pomerance is an independent Canadian film scholar. He is the author of An Eye for Hitchcock (2004)\, Johnny Depp Starts Here (2005)\, The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience Beyond Narrative and Theory (2008)\, Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue: Eight Reflections on Cinema (2011)\, The Eyes Have It: Cinema and the Reality Effect (2013)\, Moment of Action: Riddles of Cinematic Performance (2016) and A Dream of Hitchcock (2019)\, among others. He has also edited and co-edited more than two dozen anthologies\, including Ladies and Gentleman\, Boys and Girls: Gender in Film at the End of the Twentieth Century (2001)\, Cinema and Modernity (2006) and Shining in Shadows: Movie Stars of the 2000s (2012). He is also the editor of film series for Rutgers University Press and State University of New York Press. \nAttendance is free but booking is recommended on cfac@reading.ac.uk \nIntroduced by Dr. Lisa Purse
URL:https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/centre-for-film-aesthetics-and-cultures-hitchcocks-mountain-technologies-of-engagement-in-north-by-northwest/
LOCATION:Minghella Building\, Bulmershe Theatre\, Whiteknights\, RG6 6UR
CATEGORIES:Heritage & Creativity
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