Home as a Site of Resistance: ATLFilmParty @ SCMS (virtual event)

Jan 24, 2025

Home as a Site of Resistance: ATLFilmParty @ SCMS (virtual event)

The Urbanism, Geography, and Architecture Scholarly Interest Group at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) invites you to its third online event of 2024-25, focusing on the theme of 'Home on Screen.'

​​Join us for a conversation with editors and contributors of Home as a Site of Resistance. 

​Join Zoom Meeting: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83398771491

​Meeting ID: 833 9877 1491

​​Time: Friday, 24 January 2025, 1pm EST/6pm GMT

​We are delighted to have Professor Laura Rascaroli, University College Cork and Editor-in-Chief of Alphaville, as a respondent. Editors will briefly introduce the special issue, followed by a response and Q&A.

​Panelists include: editors Liz Patton and Anna Viola Sborgi and contributors Mariana Liz, Julie Le Hegarat, Jenny Gunn, Conn Holohan, Lauren S. Berliner, Francianne dos Santos Velho, Sabine Haenni.

About the Special Issue 

​The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how we view the concept of home. This shift has highlighted various societal disparities, including those based on race, gender, sexuality, and economic status. While the idea of the mediated home has been a growing topic of study (Schleier; Wojcik; Rhodes; Barnwell; Baschiera and De Rosa; Palmer; Patton; Price), this issue of Alphaville narrows its focus on the home as a space of resistance across different geographies and periods, from the 1960s to today. Considering debates from fields such as home movie studies, virtual reality, media activism, and the relationship between film and urbanism, the articles in this issue demonstrate how film and media can address resistance centred around the concept of home. They also challenge and offer alternative views to white, heteronormative, middle-class representations of domestic life. These articles provide insights into the challenges and importance of home for marginalised groups, suggest new ways for film and media studies to approach representation, and centre the portrayal of often-overlooked communities. Central to these articles is the idea of home and the use of media as a form of resistance and agency that can be used to contest mainstream perspectives. Each article looks at what home means, whether it is a place of safety, precarity, identity, or memory, and at how media shape or challenge our views of home and social identity.

​The Issue was published in February 2024 and is available open access at: https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue26.html

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