UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

Generously supported by the Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies and Exeter University. 

Schedule:

10:15-10:30am Welcome

10:30-12:30 Panel 1 – (Re)visioning the past, Chair: Jo Evans

Danielle Hipkins, Making Girl Rage Legible: Revisiting the prefeminist in postfeminist filmmaking

Kate Taylor, Girlhood in Japanese Imperial Cinema

Karen Lury, From ‘Disney Kid’ to ‘Street Whore’: the exceptional career of Jodie Foster

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-4:00 Panel 2 – (Re)thinking the present, Chair: Debbie Martin

Catherine Driscoll, Global Girlhood: Internationalising Teen Film

Clara Bradbury-Rance, The Erotics of Interruption and Disruption in Films of Queer Lesbian Girlhood

Deborah Shaw, Teenage Girls in the Films of Claudia Llosa

Emma Wilson, ‘The Sea Nymphs Tested this Miracle’: traces of a liquid world in Naissances des pieuvres (Sciamma, 2007)

4:00-4:30 Tea and coffee

4:30-5:30 Round Table and discussion, Chair: Fiona Handyside

The symposium aims to broaden the scope of work considering girls, girl culture, and its representations and resonances within cinema. We are looking to move beyond an Anglo-American focus, and keen to bring aesthetic, cultural studies, and sociological approaches into dialogue with each other.

The symposium will address:

i) the existence of ‘girl culture’ in cinema, and especially the global relevance of this concept, as well as the interaction of ‘postfeminism’ with local cultures;

ii) the articulation of contemporary girlhoods within a wide range of films from around the world (beyond the narrow canon of Anglo-American examples that have dominated scholarship so far);

iii) the mobilization of the girl in film to problematize understandings of subjectivity and identity, and how are this is articulated at the aesthetic level.

Further information can be found at http://girlinglobalcinema.weebly.com/