The annual conference for the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies (BAFTSS) kicks off next week. Here, we highlight the papers and panels exploring sex on screen in some capacity, completely based on assumption according to title/case study.* The full programme is available here. Hope to see you at the SIG meeting!
Thursday 25 April
12.30-1.15 / MT112 / Screening Sex SIG meeting**
1.15-2.45 / MT112 / B3 Screening Sex: Research, Sexual Cultures and Public Engagement Round Table
- Feona Attwood (Middlesex), Darren Kerr and Donna Peberdy (Solent), John Mercer (Birmingham City) and Clarissa Smith (Sunderland)
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1.15-2.45 / LTG15 Muirhead Tower / B1 Queer/Digital/Classical/Pastoral
- Qi Li (KCL) Fruits, Sex and Love in Western and Chinese Gay Romance Films
- Adam Vaughan (Solent) Queer Arcadia: Pastoral Visions of Gay Male Sex
- Michael Williams (Southampton) Digital Classicism: The Ancient/Modern Intersections of Timothée Chalamet and Call Me By Your Name
2.45-3.15 / MT112 / Screening Sex SIG meeting**
3.15-4.45 / MT112 / C3 Diversity On and Off Screen
- Dave Forrest (Sheffield) & Matthew Hanchard (Glasgow), ‘Through falling in love it’s like he’s seeing this landscape, seeing that beauty’: The Film Worlds of God’s Own Country
3.15-4.45 / MT113 / C4 Politics of Belonging
- Kulraj Pullar (KCL) ‘I think of my mother’: Representing and Remembering Virginity Testing in Two British Films
4.50-6.00 / LTG15 Muirhead Tower
- Keynote / Rosalind Galt (KCL) Vampire Transnationalism: Intersecting Identities in Postcolonial Horror
Friday 26 April
9.00-10.30 / MT118 / D5 Intersectionality in Film and Televisual Narratives
- Yushi Hou (Southampton) Femme Fatale Figures in Contemporary Chinese Neo-Noir: Sexuality, Gender and Cultural Context
- Qi Ai (Nottingham) Intersecting Identity and Creative Representation of Taboo Subjects in Feng Xiaogang’s Sorry Baby
11.00-12.30 / MT113 / E4 Masculinity/ies
- Samar Abdel-Rahman (KCL), Omar Sharif: Between Nasserism and Eroticism
- Chris Horn (Leicester), Fear of the Sexual and Racial ‘Other’ in Robert Altman’s Streamers
1.30-3.00 / LTG15, Muirhead Tower / F1 Violence and Trauma
- Isaac Gustafson-Wood (Southampton), What Does Male Rape Look Like?: Identifying the Male Victim
1.30-3.00 / MT109 / F2 Transnational Cinemas
- Liz Harvey-Kattou (Westminster), Intersecting Identities as Affinitive Transnationalism in Coming-of-Age Films Bad Hair (Mariana Rondón, 2013, Venezuela) and Tomboy (Céline Sciamma, 2011, France)
- Yael Friedman (Portsmouth), Identity and Resistance in Maysaloun Hamoud’s In Between (2016): Snapshots of Transnational Women
- Jia Kang (Southampton), The Industrial Intersection of Burning (2018) and the Cannes Film Festival in a Transnational Context
1.30-3.00 / MT112 / F3 Do Not Be Deceived: The Illusion of Intersectional Empowerment in Contemporary Cinema
- Gabor Gergely (Lincoln), Race, Sex, State Power: Lili Horváth’s Sunstroke (2009) and The Wednesday Child (2015)
- Alice Pember (QMUL), Finding Love in a Hopeless Place? Pop Music and Resilience in Bande de Filles and American Honey
- Lucy Bolton (QMUL), Joyce Vincent, Carol Morley, and the Ethics of Dreams of a Life
4.30-5.30 / LTG15 Muirhead Tower
- Keynote / Will Higbee (Exeter) Commonality-Place-Difference: Intersectionality and the Banlieue Film
Saturday 27 April
9.00-10.30 / MT112 / G3 Gender and National Identity/ies
- Lydia Brammer (Warwick), An Exquisite Body: Ayako Wakao’s Intersecting Identities in Yasuzo Masumura’s Manji (1964)
- Chris O’Rourke (Lincoln), ‘There’s something about a soldier’: Female Masculinity and British National Identity Between the Wars
- Victoria Carolan (Greenwich), The Use and Abuse of Catherine the Great on Film
11.00-12.30 / MT113 / H4 Queer Sexualities, Drag and Performance
- Ana Maria Sapountzi (St Andrews), When Laurence Olivier Evaded Marilyn Monroe: Exploring the Lack of Sex in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
- Hannah Andrews (Edge Hill), Snatch Game: The Intersections of Drag and Caricature on RuPaul’s Drag Race
- Theresa Heath (KCL), Queer Crip Cinema and its Spaces
* Abstracts unavailable at time of writing. If we’ve missed a paper, let us know!
** The Screening Sex SIG meeting has been programmed at 12.30 and 2.45. The SIG meeting will take place at 12.30, with the latter time slot allowing for SIG networking.
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