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19th / 26th November, Emotional States: Film, Melodrama, Gender

Wednesday 19th November, 2014

6pm, Hitchcock Cinema, Arts 1 Building

Two film screenings and a symposium, which will consider the heightened world of film melodrama as a site for the gendered representation of intense emotional experience. The Seventh Veil uses psychiatry, a popular theme of 1940s cinema, to explore female consciousness, trauma and romantic love, while the male-centred Bigger Than Life constructs a baroque, disordered vision of suburban America and family life in the 1950s. A panel of film scholars will consider questions of affect, aesthetics, genre and gender.

Wednesday 19th November: The Seventh Veil (1945), introduced by Peter Evans

Wednesday 26th November: Bigger Than Life (1956), introduced by Andrew Asibong

Panel discussion: Andrew Asibong (Birkbeck), Peter Evans (QMUL), Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck), followed by discussion. Chair: Adrian Garvey (QMUL).

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