Rethinking Re/presentation
A Postgraduate Screen Studies Research Symposium
University of Manchester, Ellen Wilkinson Building
Friday, 5th June 2015, 9am - 5pm.
Studies of representation have long been a concern for Western scholars and philosophers in their analyses of the arts and visual cultures; film is no exception. Extensive scholarship has been produced on representations largely focused on the politics of identity — of gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, age and so on — as well as their deconstruction.
However, while questions of representation and their politics remain important, questions of presentation in cinema are no less central to formal and theoretical debates within the discipline. This postgraduate symposium seeks to explore the ongoing dynamics between presentational and representational aspects of the cinema. ‘Re/presentation’ is used here to connote the productive and creative tension between the two aspects.
The aim of the conference is to foster dialogue, inspire new thinking, and further collaboration within the postgraduate community.
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Plenary
Prof Jackie Stacey (University of Manchester)
Dr. Andrew Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Dr. Andy Willis (Salford University)