Dear Colleague The first BAFTSS French and Francophone Special Interest Group conference panel will take place at the BAFTSS conference in Bristol in April 2017. The panel will be 10.00-12.00 on the first day of the conference, Thursday 20 April, and will have the following papers: - Mary Harrod (University of Warwick), “The Emotional Politics of Genre” - Phil Powrie (University of Surrey), “Z music: the 1970s French political thriller” - Ginette Vincendeau (King’s College London), “Challenging the film de banlieue: from stereotypes to invisibility” There will also be the following papers: - Hannah Paveck (King’s College London), “The Ethics of Listening: Tonal Silence in Claire Denis’s Trouble Every Day (2001)” - William Brown (University of Roehampton), “Philosopher and/or dog: Adieu au langage as non-cinema - Gemma Edney (University of Exeter), “Un vrai teen movie français? The contemporary teen genre in France” You will find all the necessary details on the BAFTSS conference page here: http://baftss.org/conference-2017/ _____________________________________________________ Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies Lewis Carroll Building 27AC05 School of English and Languages University of Surrey GU2 7XH T: 01483 682980 E: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> W: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fahs/people/phil_powrie/index.htm Chief General Editor Studies in French Cinema: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rsfc20 Chair British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies: http://www.baftss.org/ _____________________________________________________ ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org