Queer Screen Cultures

Preliminary Programme

Please note this programme is subject to change.

Programme of events of the Queer Screen Cultures Postgraduate Study Day
Time	Event
09:00	Registration & Coffee
09:30	Keynote: Michelle Aaron
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Cult Media Iain Robert Smith Underground Incorporated: John Waters and the Cultural Politics of ‘Selling Out’ Darren Elliott Gaysploitation Horror: Devil Daddies and Final Boyz Miguel Pérez-Gómez Star Trek Fan Films: Where No Gay Has Gone Before
12:30	Lunch
13:30	British Television Karen Oughton Queermania: Little Britain’s Horrific Production Nick Giacomo Ibba Another British (Queer) Scandal? Homophobia and the Clapham Junction ‘Case’ Nat Edwards “They Scrapped the Rules, and No-One Told Me”: Opposite-Sex Desire in Bob and Rose	Homosociality Jamie Hodson God Is a Top, the Devil Is Drunk: Homosocial Desire and The Desert in Deus e o diabo na terra do sol Milagros Expósito-Barea Homosexuality in Thai Cinema. The Figure of the Ladyboy – Kathoey Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger Comedies and the Mainstreaming of Queerness
15:00	Alternative Sexuality Karen Burrows "What Happens in Vegas": Permissive Space and Alternate Sexualities in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation Craig Haslop Torchwood: Adventures in Polysexual Time and Space Dario Llinares, Fiona Philip The Anxiety of Being Raped by an Alien: Contradictory Representations of Heteromasculinity and the Aesthetics of Queer in The Astronaut’s Wife	Alternative Media Luca Malici Queering Heteronormative Audience Studies Martin Zeller Experimentation: Appropriation vs. Transgression – Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl: Carrier or Corrupter of Hegemony? Justin Harbottle Faux Future: Need, Desire and Futurity in Gay Male Online Dating
16:30	Coffee
17:00	Keynote: Gary Needham