[csaa-forum] "Curating Folk Horror" Research Talk by Cüneyt Çakırlar 23/04 10am NZST

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora

Please join us for a Research Talk by Cüneyt Çakırlar<https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/cuneytcakirlar> (Nottingham Trent University) on “Curating Folk Horror: Anti-Canonisation, Critical Transnationalism and Crossover Festival Programming” (more details attached and below). We will be hosting Assoc Prof Çakırlar on 23rd April at 10am in Burns 4.

There is also a Zoom option, please register here<https://forms.gle/vQfPgfLfo2VYmioh7> for the Zoom link.

“Curating Folk Horror: Anti-Canonisation, Critical Transnationalism and Crossover Festival Programming”

An output of the British Academy project titled Transnational Horror, Folklore, and Cultural Politics [https://folkhorrorproject.uk], this paper proposes an alternative methodology to the study of transnational horror film, that attends to the curatorial affordances of film studies and its engagement with the canon (and the canonising practices). Following an analysis of recent curatorial attempts to frame the “folk horror revival” in transnational settings, this study focuses on the themed selection of film screenings, Mined Zone: Folk Horror, which the author curated for the International Istanbul Film Festival (8-19 April 2022). The screening programme aimed to introduce Istanbul’s festival audiences to geographically diverse representations of folklore-through-horror in world cinema. Critically reflecting on the curatorial possibilities and limitations of (i) de-westernising film criticism and horror spectatorship, and (ii) facilitating cross-cultural mobility of non-Anglophone horror cinemas through an anti-canonising approach to horror-as-genre, this paper will provide a critical account of transnationalism to understand the contemporary revival of folk horror and its reception in international festival settings.

Cüneyt Çakırlar<https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/cuneytcakirlar> is an Associate Professor of Film and Visual Culture at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His current research practice focuses on sexuality studies, global visual cultures, and transnational horror studies. Çakırlar has taught on queer arts and film theory at University College London (UK), Boğazici University (Turkey), Koç University (Turkey), and Istanbul Bilgi University (Turkey). His articles appeared in various international peer-reviewed journals including Critical Arts, Cineaction, [in]Transition, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Paragraph, and Screen. He co-edited a volume about cultures of sexual dissidence in contemporary Turkey, namely Cinsellik Muamması: Türkiye’de Queer Kültür ve Muhalefet(2012), co-authored Mustang: Translating Willful Youth (2022), and co-translated Judith Butler’s Bodies That Matter (1993) into Turkish (Pinhan, 2014). Çakırlar has also worked with various arts institutions and curatorial collectives based in Turkey, Germany, USA, and UK. He currently leads a British Academy project on “Transnational Horror, Folklore, and Cultural Politics” (2021-2023).

We look forward to seeing you there and please do share the details with other interested parties!

Ngā mihi,
Rosie


Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2021). Voicing the real in extreme metal<https://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/server/api/core/bitstreams/c92d3d05-24b9-47af-b1cf-378523bacfba/content>. Continental Thought & Theory, 3(3), 136-163.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

Google Scholar<https://scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user=ZW7oyEAAAAAJ&hl=en>
LinkedIn<http://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-overell-047786222>

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