Screen Media Group

Alternate Tuesdays, 17.00 -19.00 during term time
CRASSH, Seminar room SG1, Ground floor
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT

Conveners

Prof Emma F Wilson (French Literature and the Visual Arts, Dept of French, Fac of Modern and Medieval Languages)
Dr Jenna Ng (CRASSH Newton Trust/Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)

Co-coveners

Maria Flood (Department of French, St John's College)
Francesca Hardy (Department of French, Trinity Hall)
Hannah Mowat (Department of French, Trinity Hall)

Our focus for this phase of the Screen Media Research Seminar is on film and new media. The particular theme we wish to pursue in connecting film and new media is the topic, ‘Bodies, Space and Motion: From Literature to New Media’. For this theme, we will consider the inter-relations between the representation of bodies in movement in the visual arts more broadly (photography, painting, collage, screens) and the development of a lexis, iconography and sensuous imprint of moving bodies in film and new media. Research topics include:

• Relations of motion to emotion, transports of desire, mapping of the affective as it relates to the sensuous in particular environments.

• Relations to urban environments, spectacle, history of flânerie, modernity.

• Inter-relations between body in motion and technology, transport, aviation.

• Body, human and posthuman, avatars, prosthetics.

• Media multiplicity and studies in motion moving across media.

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Administrative contact: Esther Lamb (Grad/Fac Programme Manager)