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This seminar will consider the cinematic trope of the mother and the powerful image of the maternal figure in contemporary dramas which tend to challenge, or reconfigure, notions of caring, ethics, love and selfhood in startling and unexpected ways. The lecture will draw on a range of films from The Power of the Dog (Campion, 2021), Honeyland (2019) to Safe (Haynes, 1995) and will consider the work of contemporary theorists such as Julietta Singh and bell hooks.
Timetable:
Lecture with clips and images: 45 mins
Break: 5 mins
Workshop with textual analysis 15 mins
Seminar 45 mins
Open ended Q&A and further reading/further suggested viewing 20 mins
Roundtable comments and closing remarks
Dr Davina Quinlivan is an Honorary Research Fellow, The School of Critical and Historical Studies, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University.
BAFTSS SIG Convenor ‘Film and Philosophy’; Editorial Board member of https://maifeminism.com/journal/
Davina’s publications include, The Spirit of the Beehive, BFI Film Classics (London and New York: Bloomsbury, forthcoming), Joanna Hogg: New British Art Cinema, Female Identity and Aesthetics (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming), The Inner Cinema of Deborah Levy: Intertextuality, Feminine Imagination and Embodiment (Berghahn Press, forthcoming), Filming the Body in Crisis: Trauma, Healing and Hopefulness (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and The Place of Breath in Cinema (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, July 2012)
A limited number of bursary places are available for those under financial hardship. Bursary places will grant access to the live and recording access for £10. We will try to give away as many bursaries as we can, but priority will be given to UK unemployed and PIP/ESA claimants. Please apply here.
