Liverpool Film Seminar – a series of talks
Fostering debate, promoting research and celebrating film
Every year, the Liverpool Film Seminar invites leading scholars to present their film studies research in a series of six talks. The series does not focus on a specific aspect of film. Instead, a range of genres, topics and approaches are celebrated, from Batman to Bardot, from historical reach to the internet’s impact on cinematic material.
Relaxed and informal, the Liverpool Film Seminar provides excellent networking opportunities. After each talk, attendees participate in a lively debate. This element of the series provides a forum for postgraduates, academics and researchers to exchange ideas with fellow experts. Boundaries are broken, ideas cross-fertilised and research promoted.
Typically held in the evenings, seminars are free to attend and held at either Liverpool John Moores University or the University of Liverpool. There is no need to book your place. Tea, coffee and other refreshments are provided. If you would like more information about the series, please contact Lydia Papadimitriou using the details below.
Collaboration
Liverpool Film Seminar is a collaboration between Liverpool Screen School at Liverpool John Moores University and the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool.
Upcoming seminars
Explore the links below to find out more about our upcoming seminars:
Past Liverpool Film Seminar events
Liverpool Film Seminar was established in 2010. From the tabs below you can find out about past talks, topics and speakers.
2019 - 2020
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Mattias Frey |
Choosing Films and Series in the Age of Netflix: Recommender Systems and the Remediation of Taste |
Monday 28 October |
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Professor Duncan Petrie |
A changing visual landscape: British cinematography in the 1960s |
Monday 18 November |
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Professor Erica Carter |
Locating Decolonisation: Kwame Nkrumah in Cold War Media Memory |
Monday 2 December |
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Dr Glyn Davis |
Fragments of a Film: Sunil Gupta's London Gay Switchboard |
Monday 24 February (unfortunately, due to a strike at the University of Liverpool this event did not take place) |
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Dr Elena Gorfinkel |
Restless Nocturne: Cinemas on Insomnia |
Monday 16 March |
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Professor Mandy Merck |
A Star is Born - Again |
Monday 23 March |
2018 - 2019
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Chris Berry |
China's Rambo? Wolf Warrior 2 and Chinese Masculinity |
Monday 26 November 2018 |
| Professor Karen Boyle (Strathclyde University) |
Weinstein and the (cultural) value of abuse | Monday 10 December 2018 |
| Professor Birgit Beumers (Aberystwyth University) |
Integration or Isolation: Russia’s film industry in the European context | Monday 28 January 2019 |
| Professor Janet Harbord (Queen Mary, University of London) |
Greta Gerwig's Gestures: approaching Agamben's work on cinema | Monday 11 February 2019 |
| Professor Simeon Yates (University of Liverpool) |
Modelling socio-cultural factors in film genre preferences: Empirically comparing Bourdieu, Bauman and Goldthorpe | Monday 4 March 2019 |
| Professor Jackie Stacey (University of Manchester) |
A Paler Shade of White: Tilda Swinton, David Bowie and the Legibility of Whiteness | Monday 25 March 2019 |
| Professor Gina Marchetti (University of Hong Kong) |
Citing China: Politics, Postmodernism and World Cinema | Monday 1 April 2019 |
| Professor Peter Stanfield (University of Kent) |
Folk Devils in Wardour Street: British Film, Music and Youth Cultures in Early Sixties Soho | Monday 29 April 2019 |
2017 - 2018
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Chris Holmlund |
The Trouble with Female Trouble |
Wednesday 4 October 2017 |
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Professor Catherine Driscoll |
The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero |
Monday 23 October 2017 |
| Professor Dana Heller (Old Dominion University, Virginia) |
Ordinary Zombies: A Requiem for George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead |
Monday 27 November 2017 |
| Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway, University of London) |
How to Qualify as British: UK Film Policy and the Definition of 'Nationality' |
Tuesday 12 December 2017 |
| Professor Rosalind Galt (King's College, London) |
Pontianak trouble: gender and geopolitics in the Malay vampire film | Tuesday 6 February 2018 |
| Professor James Donald (University of New South Wales) |
Native Land: Documentary, Modernism, Populism |
Monday 26 February 2018 |
| Professor Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent) |
Horrible images: ethics, affect and the viewer |
Monday 9 April 2018 |
| Professor Justin Wyatt (University of Rhode Island) |
Sofia Coppola's Commercial Aesthetic: Understanding the Role of Advertising in The Virgin Suicides |
Monday 16 April 2018 |
2016 - 2017
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Rob Stone |
Winging It: Richard Linklater's Boyhood (2015) |
Monday 24 October 2016 |
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Professor Kriss Ravetto |
In Balkan: Mythopoetic cinema and the poetics of the body |
Monday 21 November 2016 |
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Professor Paul Grainge |
Paratexts and the promotional imagination of on-demand viewing |
Monday 5 December 2016 |
| Professor Martin O'Shaughnessy (Nottingham Trent) |
Cinema and the machinic: the history of a failure? |
Monday 30 January 2017 |
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Professor Nuria Triana-Toribio (University of Kent) |
Guilt, belatedly. Almodóvar in the 80s and the 80s in Almodóvar |
Monday 6 March 2017 |
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Professor Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp) |
What’s new about ‘new cinema history’? Historical cinema cultures, exhibition and audiences in comparative perspective. |
Monday 8 May 2017 |
2015 - 2016
Read the speaker’s abstracts and biographies.
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Daniela Berghahn |
Seeing Themselves Through Western Eyes? Diasporic Filmmakers as Purveyors of the Exotic |
Monday 5 October 2015 |
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Professor Thomas Elsaesser |
Double Occupancy and Self-Exoticism: Space-Time Warps of Transnational Cinema |
Monday 16 November 2015 |
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Professor Ewa Mazierska (University of Central Lancashire) |
Creating the Canon of Polish Cinema |
Monday 14 December 2016 |
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Dr Mark Gallagher (University of Nottingham) |
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai: Acting Sexy in Hong Kong and China |
Monday 22 February 2016 |
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Professor Philip Drake (Edge Hill University) |
Independent film, critical media industry studies, and video-on-demand |
Monday 14 March 2016 |
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Gary Needham (Nottingham Trent University) |
Hustling Minimalism: Screen Performance in the Films Andy Warho |
Monday 11 April 2016 |
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Dr Ian Scott (University of Manchester) |
Propaganda Wars, Projections of America and the Dismantling of the Office of War Information at the close of World War II |
Monday 25 April 2016 |
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Professor Michele Hilmes (University of Wisconsin-Madison) |
Co-Production and Conflict: Locating the Transnational in Television |
Monday 16 May 2016 |
2014 - 2015
Read the speaker’s abstracts and biographies.
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Richard Dyer (King's College) |
The Shadow of M: Serial Killing and Nazism in Film |
Monday 27 October 2014
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Professor Sarah Street (University of Bristol) |
Synthetic Dreams: Colour-Film-Music in the 1920s |
Monday 24 November 2014 |
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Professor Phil Powrie (University of Surrey) |
Soundscapes of Loss: Songs in Contemporary French Cinema |
Monday 1 December 2014 |
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Professor James Donald (University of New South Wales) |
Return of the Living Dead: Modernity, Monsters, and Technology |
Monday 19 January 2015 |
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Professor Will Brooker (Kingston University) |
Batman: 75 Years as a Transmedia Text |
Monday 9 February 2015 |
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Professor Lucia Nagib (University of Reading) |
The Politics of Slowness and the Traps of Modernity |
Monday 23 February 2015 |
2013 - 2014
Read the speaker’s abstracts and biographies.
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Dr Deborah Shaw (University of Portsmouth) |
The relationship between European funding bodies and Latin American filmmakers: new forms of dependence or new partnerships? |
Monday 4 November 2013
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Professor Frederick Wasser (City University of New York, Brooklyn College and Fullbright Bicentennial Scholar in American Studies, University of Helsinki) |
Film History, Spielberg and Lincoln |
Monday 9 December 2013
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Professor Lucy Mazdon (University of Southampton) |
French Cinema in Britain: Sex, Art and Cinephilia |
Monday 27 January 2014
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Professor Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews) |
Ephemeral Abundance: Film Culture between the Cyberlocker and the Festival |
Monday 10 March 2014
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Professor Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck College, University of London) |
Hitchcock’s Blondes and Feminist Film Theory: a Cinema of Voyeurism or a Cinema of Self-reflexivity? |
Monday 28 April 2014
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Professor Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh, USA) |
Theatricality and Quality Drama: a Neglected Connection |
Thursday 22 May 2014
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2012 - 2013
Read the speaker’s abstracts and biographies.
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Stella Bruzzi (University of Warwick) |
Approximation: Documentary, History and the Staging of Reality |
Monday 8 October 2012
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Professor Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton) |
Whatever Happened to Popular European Cinema? |
Monday 3 December 2012
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Film screening |
Screening of Poto and Cabengo (Jean-Pierre Gorin, 1980) |
Monday 28 January 2013
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Professor Carol Mavor (University of Manchester) |
A Grimm Fairy Tale: |
Monday 4 Feburary 2013
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Professor Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham) |
Remembering Frank Sinatra: Celebrity Studies Meets Memory Studies |
Monday 18 Feburary 2013
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Professor Karen Lury (University of Glasgow) |
Micro-history and the amateur film: From artefact to anecdote |
Monday 15 April 2013
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2011 - 2012
Read the speaker’s abstracts and biographies.
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Professor Robert Burgoyne (University of St Andrews) |
Ethics and Politics of the Body in The Hurt Locker and Paradise Now |
Monday 24 October 2011
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Professor Hilary Radner (University of Otago) |
Neo-Feminism and the Girly Film: Gender and Genre in Conglomerate Hollywood |
Monday 7 November 2011
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Peter Krämer (University of East Anglia) |
The Politics of Independence: Jane Fonda, The China Syndrome and Anti-nuclear Campaigning |
Monday 12 December 2011
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Professor Ginette Vincendeau |
Gamine, sex bomb, dumb blonde: Brigitte Bardot as comic star |
Monday 23 January 2012
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Professor Bill Osgerby (London Metropolitan University) |
Your Town Could Be Their Killing Ground ...": Exploitation, “Otherness” and Transgression in the 1960s Biker Movie |
Monday 13 February 2012
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Dr Frank Krutnik (University of Sussex) |
Killers on the Kilocycles: Radio Noir and the Movie Adaptation Series |
Monday 19 March 2012
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Pamela Church-Gibson (London College of Fashion) |
Cinema in Peril: Stardom, Celebrity Culture and Luxury Brands |
Monday 30 April 2012 |
2010 - 2011
Read the speaker’s abstracts and biographies.
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Speaker/Event |
Talk |
Date |
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Dr Warren Buckland (Oxford Brookes University) |
Understanding David Lynch’s Inland Empire |
Monday 15 November 2010
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Professor Robert C. Allen (University of North Carolina) |
Cinema Archaeology: Excavating Spaces, Reclaiming Experience |
Tuesday 14 December 2010
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Professor Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth) |
Hollywood, Post-studio Stardom, and ”The Will Smith Business |
Monday 31 January 2011 |
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Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art) |
Order, coherence, codecs and vectors: Time in the moving image |
Monday 11 April 2011
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Professor Yvonne Tasker (University of East Anglia) |
A Provocative Presence: Military women in film and visual culture |
Monday 9 May 2011
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Symposiums
Liverpool Film Seminar occasionally hosts seminars. For example, in 2014 we hosted TV is the New Cinema: Exploring the Erosion of Boundaries between the Two Media. The keynote speaker was Professor Jane Feuer (University of Pittsburgh) and eight other academics also took part.
Check back here for details about future symposiums.
Getting here
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Co-hosts
Liverpool Film Seminar is run by Lydia Papadimitriou from Liverpool John Moores University and Yannis Tzioumakis from the University of Liverpool.
Contact us
Get in touch
If you’d like more information, please get in touch with Lydia Papadimitriou using the contact details below. Alternatively, you can contact Yannis Tzioumakis from the University of Liverpool.
Email: L.Papadimitriou@ljmu.ac.uk
Call: 0151 231 4858
Address:
Redmonds Building
Liverpool Screen School
Brownlow Hill
Liverpool
L3 5UG