Dr Sophie Swoffer will be joining us to give a talk entitled 'It’s Us!' Reconsidering the Male Gaze in Feminist Performance and Film' and it'll be taking place in the Monica Partridge Building in room C15. The talk is funded by British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies as part of their 'New Connections' season and is being supported by ISIR.
Over forty years have passed since Mulvey warned us of the masculinised position of the spectator in Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s. This research talk will demonstrate contemporary, interdisciplinary approaches that can be utilised to deconstruct women’s ongoing relationship to the male gaze and will unveil alternative feminist possibilities of utilising female film archetypes, such as the young, apparently naïve Hollywood ‘starlet’ and the ageing ‘diva’ actress. This talk will also reflect on Sophie’s performance practice which uses digital approaches to uncover new ways of resisting and reclaiming the male gaze, to produce and celebrate innovative alternatives to heteronormative femininity.
Dr Sophie Swoffer is a Lecturer in Performance at Sheffield Hallam University. Sophie’s work in interdisciplinary and draws on both Performance and Film Studies in order to re-envisage, challenge and deconstruct the male gaze. Sophie was the conference committee chair for the M4C-funded and De Montfort University-supported 2019 practice-based conference, Cracking the Established Order: Practice-Based Research in Academia. She has guest edited The International Journal of Creative Media Research’s special edition of Exploring Creative Methodologies (June 2020) and has also published to the international Body, Space, Technology journal (2021) and Makings journal (2022).
The event will take online on Teams. Meeting link can be found here.
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