Hear her roar: gender, transhumanism and becoming/transcending the animal
Robert Morace
What’s Under the Skin?
Cin.Humanising children and young people: uses of the animal
Chair: Katie Moylan
Stan Beeler
The werewolf as a symbol in young adult television
Tiago de Luca
‘Cows! Dogs! Donkeys!’: animals, children and the inhuman in Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux
Maria San Filippo
Captive viewers: learning in/humanity through film in Dogtooth and The Wolfpack 408 Animal celebrities
Chair: Brett Mills
Rayna Denison
From cute to ugly-cute: Japanese cinema and the cute animal industry
Moya Luckett
Animal celebrity and social media: performativity, upwards mobility and transcendence
David McGowan
This is Your Life, Donald Duck: cartoon stars and the live aesthetic of early television
Kevin Sandler
‘Scooby-Doo, Where Aren’t You?’: Time Warner, Cartoon Network, and synergizing a Great Dane
409 Spectacle, squids and surfing: digital imaging and the inhuman
Chair: Alison Butler
William Brown
The digital female body: ScarJo as inhuman
Clifton Evers
Becoming-wave-media: ‘posthuman performativity’, the GoPro™ camera, and researching lifestyle sports
David H. Fleming
Scarlett: the inhuman starlet, or the vamp becoming-Vampyroteuthis? Regarding squids, insects, and digital becomings in contemporary science-fiction
16.00-16.30
COFFEE BREAK
Theatre 16.30-18.00
217a Imagined animals/inhuman beings
Chair: Alastair Phillips
Jonathan Driskell
Stardom and the inhuman in Malay cinema: P. Ramlee’s portrayal of the ‘oily man’ in Sumpuh Orang Minyak
Nicola Runciman
The (un)natural habitats of Alicia Scherson's animals
Andrew Utterson
Water buffalo, catfish and monkey ghosts: the materiality of reincarnation in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives 217b Animal advocacy
Chair: Sarah Street
Tatiana Heise
From shock tactics to green sensibility: the environmental turn in animal-advocacy films
Fiona Law
Pet-animals in the concrete jungle: tales of abandonment and sentimentality on Chinese-language screens
Katy Peplin
Studio magic, animal secrets: archival perspectives on the AHA’s Hollywood office
Cin.Facing the subject
Chair: Annette Kuhn
Irene Gustafson
Facing the subject
Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa
Ideas in the flesh
Yiman Wang
Regarding the agential nonhuman life
408 Animal theory, animal death
Chair: David Fleming
Colin Gardner
Louis Malle’s Kleistian war machine: becoming-animal, becoming-woman, becoming-imperceptible in Black Moon
David Sorfa
Dead metaphors: killing animals in art house cinema
Kirsten Strom
Human entomology: the influence of Darwin in the films of Buñuel