Screening Censorship Conference
UBC Cinema and Media Studies Professor, Ernest Mathijs, and Ghent University’s Daniel Biltereyst have co-organized the Screening Censorship Conference taking place on October 16 & 17 online!
Throughout the history of cinema, censorship has existed in all kinds of shapes, colors, and dimensions. Age restrictions, film cuttings, bans, industry discouragements, and other types of censorial interventions have occurred in numerous countries and in many time periods.
Poster for Tank Girl
Screening Censorship will reflect upon recent changes in policies, strategies and practices of film censorship, both in the past and in today’s media landscape. The conference will showcase academic and industry voices on the issue of the shifting practices of censoring films.
The keynote speakers include:
- Richard Maltby (Distinguished Professor of Screen Studies, Flinders University)
- Manuel Mozos (Director of the Cinema Censura Documentary Series, Portugal)
- Rachel Talalay (Director and Producer, known for Nightmare on Elm Street, Hairspray, and Tank Girl)
- Linda Williams (Professor in Film, Media and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley)
The conference is organized in tandem with the 47th International Film Fest Gent and will feature a 25th anniversary screening of Tank Girl (1995), introduced by Director Rachel Talalay.
The Screening Censorship Conference is sponsored by Digital Cinema Studies (DICIS) in collaboration with The Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (University of British Columbia) and the Center for Cinema and Media Studies (Ghent University).
Website: http://www.censorship-symposium.org
