The Digital Zone of European Film & Television: Negotiating Gender Narratives and Online Practices

Research seminar about the digital zone of European film and television.

Gender is often on the agenda when cinema and global streaming dramas are at the centre of public debates. Still, there is a lack of knowledge about how this cultural engagement unfolds in the digital public sphere. This research seminar investigates different aspects of  ‘the digital zone of European film and television’ and the key role and impact that European film and streamed audiovisual fiction holds in current ongoing discussions of societal, historical and cultural values in a polarized cultural and political climate.

Programme

9:00 - 9:45 Arrival and coffee
9:45 - 10:00 Welcome & research agenda: Helle Kannik Haastrup & Anders Marklund
10:00 - 11:00 Keynote:
Mariana Liz (University of Lisbon): Women in European Screens: Focus on Contemporary Portugal
11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:40 Presentations (20 minutes for presenting, 10 minutes discussion):
  • Joel Frykholm (Stockholm University): Gender Stories and Glocalized Streaming: The Case of Love & Anarchy (2020–2022)
  • Anders Lysne (University of Bergen): Mourning Young Men 
  • Louise Brix (Aalborg University): “I think it’s cool when gender is mixed in as very normal”. Gender issues, series consumption and media literacy in Danish high schools.
12:40 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:30 Keynote:
Maud Ceuterick (University of Bergen): Gender narratives: From textual analysis to production and distribution studies
14:30 - 14:40 Break
14:40 - 16:40 Presentations (20 minutes for presenting, 10 minutes discussion):
  • Katrine Sommer Boysen (University of Copenhagen): “Something to look forward to” – Critics and fans reacting to the menopause monologue in Fleabag
  • Helle Kannik Haastrup (University of Copenhagen): The memefication of The Substance: Online negotiations of feminism, celebrity and intertextuality
  • Anders Marklund (University of Lund): Cultural Memory of Suffrage through Film, Television, and Online Paratexts
  • Michael Nebeling Petersen (University of Copenhagen): “What is remembered lives”: (Re-)mediating the AIDS Crisis, Retroactivism, Nostalgia, and Queer Memory
16:40 - 17:30 Bubbles and networking

The seminar is open if you are a registered participant (please write to h.k.haastrup@hum.ku.dk for confirmation of participation).

Funded by CEMES.