Screen cultures – Sexuality, power and violence Dr. Debra Ferreday (Lancaster University) | ‘Only the bad gyal could do this’: Rihanna, rape-revenge narratives, and the cultural politics of White Feminism In 2015, Rihanna released a video single, Bitch Better Have My Money (more widely known as BBHMM), whose violent imagery would become the focus of […]
Screen cultures: Norms and transgressions Dr. Anne Graefer (BCU) and Dr. Ranjana Das (University of Leicester) | ‘Who on earth watches this?!’: Offended Television Audiences in Britain and Germany This paper explores some findings from our forthcoming book ‘Provocative Screens: Offended Audiences in Britain and Germany’ (Palgrave Pivot 2017). In our audience study we explored […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Screen cultures – Horror and hardcore Dr Oliver Carter (BCU) | Hardcore Guaranteed: Making Pornography in 1960s Britain This paper draws on research conducted for the opening chapter of a future monograph on British hardcore pornographic filmmaking and the forthcoming documentary Hardcore Guaranteed: The Mike Freeman Story. It explores the emergence of […]
Screen cultures | The Politics of Funny Women: Negotiating Femininities and Feminisms through Comedy (panel and book launch) The question of why we laugh (or don't laugh) has intrigued scholars since antiquity. Comedy and Online Audiences contributes to that debate by exploring how we evaluate screen comedy. What kinds of criteria do we use to judge […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Popular Music – Music and memory Dr. Lauren Istvandity (Griffiths University, Australia) | ‘Son, can you play me a memory?’ Hearing music, recalling memories: Characteristics of a Lifetime Soundtrack Personal associations between memory and music can be created daily, and recalled for many years to come. Anecdotally, the interaction between memory and […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Sound and sense - theorising improvised music and noise Dr. Marie Thompson (University of Lincoln) | Gendering mediation: feminized noise, prenatal speakers and sonic (re)production The sonic medium, the means of mediation, has often been directly and indirectly conceptualised in relation to historical imaginations of the feminine and feminized reproductive labour: it […]
BCMCR Research Seminar: Music for everyone: amateurism in music Chris Shurety (Contemporary Music for All) and Rebecca Lenton (KNM Campus) | Amateurism in contemporary music Amateur music making is found in practically every culture. In classical contemporary music is however, it is not easy. The last 60+ years have brought ever more complex techniques, both […]
Research as Practice: The Politics of Contemporary Visual Culture in the Middle East Today | Convenor: Professor Jonathan Harris| Chair: Professor Anthony Downey This seminar brings together leading academics and practitioners in the field of visual culture in the Middle East. Beginning from a variety of perspectives, each speaker will discuss the nature of their research and […]
We are pleased to invite you to the autumn series of Public Research Seminars at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. Pedagogy and Music History – two perspectives through time Part 1 – Music in A-Levels: curriculum and hegemony A-Level music has long stood as one of the qualifications many students who pursue music into higher education engage […]
