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Julia @juliaecheverria.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm thrilled to announce that Dec 9 I’ll deliver an online lecture at the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on epidemic cinema. Don't miss it! 👉 miskatonicinstitute.com/events/do-no...
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Do Not Touch! The Rise of the Epidemic Cinema Genre (Online) - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies

From zombie apocalypses to deadly contagions, the early twenty-first century saw an unprecedented proliferation of fictional narratives centered on highly transmissible pathogens, building on past epi...

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Pablo Gómez @pablogomezm.bsky.social · Sep 4

Today I will be presenting a paper on Villeneuve's Dune adaptations at the SERCIA conference in Cluj-Napoca (panel B2) @sercia.bsky.social @spacescinema.bsky.social @iedis.bsky.social

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · Jun 16

Happy Before Sunrise Day! 🌅
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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · Jun 1

We're glad to hear that! Thank you for coming!☺️

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · Jun 1

¡Gracias a ti, Jordi! Nos ha encantado contar con tu presencia en el congreso y nos alegramos mucho de que hayas disfrutado de estos días en Zaragoza ☺️ ¡Hasta la próxima!🎬

Jordi Sánchez-Navarro @jordisancheznav.bsky.social · May 31

Pocos congresos "pequeños"* tan grandes, productivos y amables como #RealandImaginedSpacesinFilm. Qué gran equipo es @spacescinema.bsky.social Gracias y felicidades a Marimar Azcona, @pablogomezm.bsky.social @abuesa.bsky.social y resto del grupo.

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Jemma Saunders (Penny) @jemsaunders1.bsky.social · Jun 1

This was fun! Cliff Richard, Birmingham, and desktop documentary. Thanks Zaragoza! #realandimaginedspacesinfilm

Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

2. Jemma Saunders' "‘Silly Geography’ and the Musical Sequence: Remapping the Birmingham of Take Me High"

3. Zipai Yang's "Emotional Interplay in Eating Spaces: The Relationship between Space, Emotion, and Food in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express"

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Fernando Sánchez López @fersanchezlop.bsky.social · May 31

And it's a wrap! Had a wonderful experience at the #RealAndImaginedSpacesInFilm conference organized by @spacescinema.bsky.social. Two intense days of great talks and an amazing venue for the exchange of ideas.

Next stop: Dissertation defense!

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

Áine O’Healy's plenary session: Reimagining Italy: Borderscapes and Urban Peripheries on Contemporary Screens🎦

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

6B. Space and the nation:

1. Michael Brodski's "The Concept of Smooth Space in the Soviet Cinema of the Thaw"

2. Christopher Brown's "Island Imagined: cartographyand space in 21st century Taiwanese cinema"

3. Shekhar Deshpande's "Lived Heterotopias of “the Zones” in Recent Russian Films"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

3. Nicolas Pillai's "Building Baker Street: setting and space in The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

Panel 6A. Constructing imaginary spaces, featuring:

1. @claudiaguas.bsky.social's "Between Dream and Reality: The Transformation of New York City in Vanilla Sky"

2. Raúl García Egüés' "The filmic landscape in the rear projections of Hitchcock and De Palma"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

3. Alexandra Semenova's "The Logic of Disorientation: Real, Imagined, and Pictorial Space in Albert Serra´s Afternoons of Solitude"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

and Panel 5B: Theorizing space and place, featuring:

1. Fady Atallah's “Unreal” Spaces as Meaning Bearers: Anti-Realist Cinema Through a Philosophical Lens"

2. Aleksi Rennes' "Pure Mathematics and Armed Struggle: Practices of Cinematic Placemaking in Ici et ailleurs (1976) and Incendies (2010)"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

2. Jemma Saunders' "‘Silly Geography’ and the Musical Sequence: Remapping the Birmingham of Take Me High"

3. Zipai Yang's "Emotional Interplay in Eating Spaces: The Relationship between Space, Emotion, and Food in Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and Chungking Express"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

Day 2 of the #RealandImaginedSpacesinFilm Conference has arrived!☀️😄
It has started with two simultaneous panels, 5A: Cinematic cities (II), featuring:

1. Vicente Rodriguez Ortega's "Ephemeral Reciprocity in Wong Kar Wai’s Urban Films"

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Jordi Sánchez-Navarro @jordisancheznav.bsky.social · May 30

Day two of #RealandImaginedSpacesInFilm @spacescinema.bsky.social

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

3. Ifigenia Dimitriou's "Reconstructing Urban Narratives: Jim Jarmusch's Permanent Vacation as a Cinematic-Spatial Representation of 1980s New York City"

4. Flavia Garrigós Cabañero's "Afropessimist Cities in Western Cinema: Bird's-Eye View of African Spaces"

Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

and, lastly, panel 4B, on Cinematic cities (I), featuring:

1. Vincenzo Bavaro's "Cinematic Representation of the Los Angeles Freeways: Mobility, Isolation, and Urban Identity"

2. @abuesa.bsky.social's "Grounded Mobilities and the Street-Child Film"

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2. Wing-Fai Leung's "Traversing Imagined Homes: Riceboy Sleeps and Return to Seoul"

3. Anissa Medjebeur's "A Virtual Travel Experience in a Chinese Ghost Town: Shadow Days"

4. @isabeltrevi.bsky.social's "North, South, Anywhere: Spaces of a Mobile Life in Zero Fucks Given"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

That's a wrap!🎬
We closed up the first day of the conference with two wonderful simultaneous panels, 4A: Cinematic journeys, featuring:

1. Karolina Ginalska's "Non-liminal space in representation of indigenous peoples in Ciro Guerra’s The Wind Journeys (2009)"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

3. Fabio Pezzetti Tonion's "Beyond the narrative, towards the mental landscape. Forms of landscape and space in the cinema of Ingmar Bergman"

4. Louise Radinger Field's "Dreaming Houses and Housing Dreams: Cinema, Architecture & Psyche"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

3C: Actors/characters in space:

1. Emma Bauer's "The “Real” versus “Imagined” Southern Space(s) in American Culture: The Example of Ray McKinnon’s Rectify"

2. Sara Pesce's "Space, mise en scène and performance. A perspective on the actor’ work in the Stanislavski legacy"

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3. Sanja Garic-Komnenic's "Remembering Sarajevo"

4. Rob Stone's "One’s Place in the World: Dead Man, First Cow, Meek’s Crossing and The Sisters Brothers"

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Transnational Spaces in Contemporary Cinema @spacescinema.bsky.social · May 30

Panel 3B: Lost, erased, and missing spaces:

1. Moha Boutahir's "Reconstructing Space, Borders and Erased Narratives in Narjiss Nejjar’s Apatride (2018)"

2. Jill Daniels' "Place, Temporality and the Imagined Witness"

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