{"id":207,"date":"2013-02-05T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T09:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/sequence2\/?p=207"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:22:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:22:26","slug":"presenting-sequence-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/sequence2\/presenting-sequence-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting SEQUENCE Two"},"content":{"rendered":"

The figure of the mother preoccupied feminist filmmakers as well as feminist critics of the 1970s. […]<\/strong>\u00a0 We Need to Talk about Kevin<\/i><\/strong>, [Lynne] Ramsay\u2019s film adapted from Lionel Shriver\u2019s 2003 novel, needs, I argue, to be added to this matriarchal genealogy. […]<\/strong> Ramsay\u2019s film goes further in placing the mother-son relationship \u2013 with all its contemporary as well as mythical resonances \u2013 at its centre. It does this, however, in a way that also represents a significant shift of focus.<\/p>\n

[Cited from Sue Thornham, \u2018A HATRED SO INTENSE\u2026.: We Need to Talk about Kevin<\/i>, Postfeminism and Women\u2019s Cinema\u2019 , SEQUENCE: Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music<\/em><\/strong>, 2.1 (2013). Online at:\u00a0 http:\/\/reframe.sussex.ac.uk\/sequence2\/archive\/sequence-2-1\/<\/a>]<\/p>\n

We are delighted to announce that the inaugural contribution to Issue Two<\/a> of SEQUENCE Serial Studies in Media, Film and Music<\/a> We Need to Talk about Maternal Melodrama<\/em> is feminist film and media scholar and theorist Sue Thornham\u2019s essay<\/a> \u2018”A HATRED SO INTENSE\u2026”; We Need to Talk about Kevin<\/i>, Postfeminism and Women\u2019s Cinema’ (<\/b>2.1 [2013]<\/a>). <\/b>Thornham’s study is an excellent and very wide-ranging exploration of Lynne Ramsay\u2019s recent film, one that provocatively, and expertly, revisits important debates about\u00a0maternal representation, matriarchal genealogy, feminist cultural production, and classical and contemporary melodrama.<\/p>\n

As we are sequentially inviting responses to the first entry in this iteration of SEQUENCE, Thornham\u2019s article also constitutes a Call for Contributions<\/em> for further We Need to Talk about Maternal Melodrama<\/a> sequences. If you\u2019re inspired to respond, especially if you have related research work in progress on any of the topics raised by her essay, and\/or the SEQUENCE title, in relation to any relevant cultural or communications medium (not just cinema), please get in touch with us at SEQUENCEserial[at]gmail[dot]com<\/a>. Multimedia responses of all kinds are also very much encouraged. But it would be worthwhile to discuss any substantial response with us at an early stage in your planning. All contributions need to comply with UK copyright law and the current understanding of fair dealing.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to offer a shorter response, there is also the option of leaving a comment in the moderated stream at the foot of each SEQUENCE Two entry. SEQUENCES may be long and short in all sorts of ways.<\/p>\n

We should be able publish \u2018full-length\u2019 responses quite quickly, although contributors should note that they will be formally peer-reviewed. But there are no editorial prescriptions on length or content, except that your work should be some kind of \u2018sequential response\u2019. If you don\u2019t want to respond right away, you can still enter the \u2018chain\u2019 of responses later on.<\/p>\n

SEQUENCE Two<\/a> is being edited and produced<\/em> by Catherine Grant<\/a>, founder and (with Russell Pearce)<\/a>, co-editor of the SEQUENCE <\/a>project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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