Celebrating the gendered experience of filmmaking in Britain
Speaker: Amy Harris
Utilising striking statistics on funding and distribution opportunities made available to women in the UK (Cobb, 2015) and the broader industrial context of the British film industry after the “fall” of Hammer horror (Walker, 2015), alongside a close-textual analysis of several case study films, this talk examines how gendered experiences of filmmaking can offer a valuable commentary of the misogyny of the industry. This talk contends that the reflexive plots of these innovative films lend themselves to a broader analysis of women’s precarity within Britain’s film industry. In line with Sara Ahmed’s work (2010), this article argues that feminist rage, played out through a series of horrifying and humorous scenarios, highlights the collective unhappiness felt by women working within an industry that continues to ignore women’s valuable contributions to the horror genre.
Black People, finally owning our own television network.
peaker: Beverley Cooper-Chambers
My Practice-based PhD research is in Television Drama and Black Caribbean Families. Initially, I focused on the invisibility of Black people in British Period Dramas and produced a TV drama series pilot called Invisible - to make the invisible visible. However, this unearthed the much deeper problem of the absence of platforms to broadcast these stories if they fail to meet the developmental slates of British mainstream media. When I spoke at DMU in 2018 for Black History month on women in the media I suggested that the only option we, as Black people, had was to have our own global networks. Today, I want to talk about the online TV network that I have created that will be launched in 2021.
Patriarchal capitalism in Nigeria's mediated sphere.
Speaker: Amapamoere Jennifer Ere
I am a final year full time PhD candidate of the Media Discourse Centre from De Montfort University, Leicester, UK submitting my thesis in May 2020. My PhD thesis centres around the everyday discourses surrounding Digital Surveillance in Nigeria. My undergraduate studies was in Nigeria, where I attained a B. Sc in Mass Communication. In 2013, I relocated to the United Kingdom and achieved a Masters of Arts in Communication Culture and Media from Coventry University. I am interested in Media and Cultural Theory.