EKfG-Fachgespräch mit Prof. Dr. Diane Negra

Terms of Intimacy in the Contemporary “Chick Flick”

EKfG-Fachgespräch/ Interdisciplinary Research Seminar

Abstract


On January 30th, 2020, 16:00 s.t. – 18:30, EKfG will host an Interdisciplinary Research Seminar with Prof. Dr. Diane Negra, University College Dublin, and EKfG member   Dr. Maria Sulimma, Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen. In her keynote presentation Diane Negra will deal with the Terms of Intimacy in the Contemporary "Chick Flick" to introduce current research at the conjunction of media studies and gender studies:

In the early twenty-first century shifts in gender and class roles, work and mobility patterns and especially technology are entangled with perceived threats to social bonding.  In this context we can map distinct transitions in the generic vigor, commercial security and cultural standing of the Hollywood romance. This talk provides an overview and assessment of the current state of the "chick flick," a low status, taken-for-granted cinematic genre but one with strong links to changing social definitions/conditions of intimacy.  Perhaps more supple than it is given credit for, the "chick flick" provides evidence of the way that popular culture couples are always working to establish timely and apposite renditions of private intimacy as a social good.
 

We kindly ask you to register beforehand at ekfg@uni-due.de  by January 28th, 2020.

 

Preliminary Programme


Thursday, 30 January 2020 16.00 s.t. - 18.30 h
Essen College of Gender Research Campus Essen, R12 S06 H01

16.00-16.15    Welcome and Introduction

                        Dr. Maren A. Jochimsen, Essen College of Gender Research

16.15-17.15    Terms of Intimacy in the Contemporary "Chick Flick"

                       Prof. Dr. Diane Negra

                       Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture

                       University College Dublin

17.15-17.30    Response

                       Dr. Maria Sulimma

                       Research group “Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures:
                       American Models, Transatlantic Interventions”

                       Department for Anglophone Studies

                       University of Duisburg-Essen

17.30-17.45    Coffee Break

17.45-18.30    Discussion

                       Chair: Dr. Maren A. Jochimsen

                       Essen College of Gender Research

About The Speakers

Keynote presentation Prof. Dr. Diane Negra

Prof. Dr. Diane Negra

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at University College Dublin. She is author of Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom, editor of The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture and co-editor of A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema and Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture.

 

Response Dr. Maria Sulimma

Dr. Maria Sulimma

Maria Sulimma is the Postdoctoral Researcher in the research group “Scripts for Postindustrial Urban Futures: American Models, Transatlantic Interventions” at the University Duisburg-Essen. Her research spans cultural studies, urban studies, and feminist media studies. Her current book projects are on gender, seriality, and television narration, as well as on urban pastimes of the 19th and 21st century.