B for BAD cinema: aesthetics, politics and cultural value
B for BAD cinema: aesthetics, politics and cultural value
Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference
Monash University, Melbourne
April 15–17, 2009
Over the past decade, paracinema – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies – has seen a counter-cultural valorisation of all forms of cinematic trash or ‘badfilm.’ In many internet and print sources devoted to the celebration of paracinema, the term B-movie has (in contrast to its earlier studio-era sense) come to mean almost anything: disreputable and unworthy movies, low-budget exploitation movies, straight to TV or video movies, and even big-budget studio movies. B for BAD cinema provides an opportunity for international film scholars, critics and filmmakers to present their thoughts on badfilm, with a particular focus on the following themes:
- Cultural value and theory
- Bad feeling and affect
- Aesthetic value and bad art
- Cultural morals and politics
- Bad film/media theory and criticism
Publication Outcomes
Conference publication outcomes include:
- B for Bad Cinema, edited collection, Wayne State University Press. http://wsupress.wayne.edu/film/
- Colloquy: text theory critique Special issue. An electronic journal of interdisciplinary work by postgraduates. http://colloquy.monash.edu.au
- Scope: an online journal of film and TV studies. Special issue to be confirmed. http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
- Continuum – Journal of Media and Cultural Studies. Special issue To Be Confirmed
Sponsors
B for BAD Cinema is proudly sponsored by:
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Monash University School of English, Communications and Performance Studies | |