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Alanna Thain

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Alanna Thain

Regular member

Portrait de Alanna Thain

Affiliation

Professeure associée, Département d'anglais, Université 山ǿ

Discipline and expertise

Cultural studies, film studies

Research Interests

  • Contemporary cinema and media
  • Contemporary dance and dance on screen
  • Theories and history of the body
  • History and theory of cinema
  • Feminist and queer histories

Contact information

Alanna.Thain [at] mcgill.ca (> Email)

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Select and recent publications


Lo Tech Pop Cult: Screendance Remixed. Eds. A. Thain and P. Guy. New York: Routledge, 2024.

"Introduction" (with P. Guy), inLo Tech Pop Cult, Routledge, 2024.

"The Value of a Cheap Trick: Time as Special FX in 21st Century Screendance (1895-2019)", inLo Tech Pop Cult, Routledge, 2024.

"Moving Mirror: Screendance as Performance Methodology" (avec N. Grebmeier Forget), inLo Tech Pop Cult, Routledge, 2024.

"Call-In as Curation: The Case of Groupe intervention Video’s Vidéos des Femmes dans le Parc", special issue ofFeminist Media Histories of "Curating Feminist Film Archives" (Winter 2024), with Ylenia Olibet and DaynaMcLeod.

"L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être", 24 images,April 2024.

"What’s new and next in sleep?", with A. Kaminska. Introduction to our 4 part series featuring the work of The Sociability of Sleep inThe Poluphony: Conversations in the Medical Humanities,February 2024.

Special issue ofԳٱé徱é (41, automne 2023), "Dormir/ Sleeping", co-ed. with Aleksandra Kaminska and Dayna McLeod.

"The Senseless Shift”, World Picture 14 (special issue on "Spell"), Summer 2023.

"The Sleeper’s Unrest (Introduction)", Գٱé徱é 41, November 2023, with A. Kaminska and D. McLeod.

"Reproductive Technics and Time: Ectogestational Labour, Biotechnological Horror, Social Reproduction", inThe Labors of Fear: Work in Horror Cinema, eds. Jason Middleton and Aviva Briefel, University of Texas at Austin Press, 2023.

Main publications about Montréal and cities


"Moving Mirror: Screendance as Performance Methodology" (with N. Grebmeier Forget), inLo Tech Pop Cult, Routledge, 2024.

"Call-In as Curation: The Case of Groupe intervention Video’s Vidéos des Femmes dans le Parc", special issue ofFeminist Media Histories of "Curating Feminist Film Archives" (Winter 2024), with Ylenia Olibet and DaynaMcLeod.

"Vidéo de Femmes dans le Parc: Feminist Rhythms and Festival Times under Covid", avec Ylenia Olibet. Film Festivals and COVID 19: Reflections on Festivalisation in Times of Social Distancing, eds. Antoine Damiens and Marikje de Valck. Palgrave McMillan, 2022.

"De spéculaire à speculative: Rencontres intimes @ Uterine Concert Hall de Dayna McLeod", Pour des histoires audiovisuelles des femmes au Québec: confluences et divergences,Co-eds Julie Ravery-Pilon and Ersy Contogious. Presses de l’Université de Montréal. 2022.

"Reflektion: Ordinary Intimacies, Extraordinary Sites: Outdoor Cinema as Leaky Lab", Levande bilder—levande stad/ Vibrant Images—Vibrant City,co-eds Geska Helena Brečević & Annika Wik. Stockholm: Film Capital Stockholm, 2020, p. 24-28.

"Cinema’s Missing Bodies", with Dayna McLeod. Framework 62.2, Autumn 2021.

"Les réanimations des espaces urbaines ambigüe du cinéma et des médias post-numerique", special issue of Écranosphère on “Media Mutations”, ed. Santiago Hidalgo, March 2021.

"Mobile Media’s New Multiplexes: Cinema Out of the Box",Immediations,Vol. 1, eds. Anna Munster, Erin Manning et Bodil Marie Stavning. Open Humanities Press, 2019, p. 240-251.

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