‘It Is True, We Shall Be Monsters’: New Perspectives on Horror, Science Fiction and the Monstrous Onscreen.
Wednesday 13th of June 2018, De Montfort University
Deadline: April 13, 2018
Email: cath.postgrad@gmail.comThe Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort University, invites postgraduates and early career researchers to its seventh annual postgraduate conference.
2018 marks the 200-year anniversary of Mary Shelley's seminal novel Frankenstein, so join us in celebrating all things monstrous as we re-consider, interrogate and offer new approaches to the genres of Horror and Science-Fiction on screen. In light of the recent burgeoning of these genres in mainstream film and television, such as the Duffer Brother's Netflix series Stranger Things (2016-), Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror (2011-), and Oscar winners The Shape of Water (Del Toro, 2017)and Get Out (Peele, 2016), Horror and Sci-Fi are gaining new audiences across multiple platforms. Therefore, it seems a pertinent time to interrogate the tensions and emergent trends in these two persevering and continually developing genres onscreen.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Female directors and women in horror
Screening violence (exploitation and slasher films)
Social/political/cultural representations of fear in the Horror/ Sci-Fi film
Texts - remakes, paratexts, and adaptations
Relationships between human and machine, technology replacing the monster
Monstrous representations of gender and the body
Unmade Horror and Sci-Fi
Representations of disability in Sci-Fi and Horror
Fandom and audiences
Transnational production contexts of Sci-Fi and Horror cinema
Use of special effects and prosthetics in Sci-Fi and Horror
New Readings of classic Horror and Sci-Fi cinema
Nostalgia in Horror and Sci-Fi
Depictions of race in Sci-Fi and Horror
Proposals for twenty-minute presentations should include the title of the presentation, a 250-word abstract, and a brief biographical statement. Proposals should be submitted to
cath.postgrad@gmail.com by Friday 13th April 2017. Applicants will receive a response by late April.
