Affiliation

Professeure associ茅e, D茅partement d'anglais, Universit茅 海角社区

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

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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), in听Lo Tech Pop Cult, Routledge, 2024.

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

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

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

"L鈥檌nsoutenable l茅g猫ret茅 de l鈥櫭猼re", 24 images,听April 2024.

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

Special issue of听滨苍迟别谤尘茅诲颈补濒颈迟茅蝉 (41, automne 2023), "Dormir/ Sleeping", co-ed. with Aleksandra Kaminska and Dayna McLeod.

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

"The Sleeper鈥檚 Unrest (Introduction)", 滨苍迟别谤尘茅诲颈补濒颈迟茅蝉 41, November 2023, with A. Kaminska and D. McLeod.

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

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Main publications about Montr茅al and cities

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

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

"Vid茅o 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 sp茅culaire 脿 speculative: Rencontres intimes @ Uterine Concert Hall de Dayna McLeod", Pour des histoires audiovisuelles des femmes au Qu茅bec: confluences et divergences,听Co-eds Julie Ravery-Pilon and Ersy Contogious. Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 de Montr茅al. 2022.

"Reflektion: Ordinary Intimacies, Extraordinary Sites: Outdoor Cinema as Leaky Lab", Levande bilder鈥攍evande stad/ Vibrant Images鈥擵ibrant City,听co-eds Geska Helena Bre膷evi膰 & Annika Wik. Stockholm: Film Capital Stockholm, 2020, p. 24-28.

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

"Les r茅animations des espaces urbaines ambig眉e du cin茅ma et des m茅dias post-numerique", special issue of 脡cranosph猫re on 鈥淢edia Mutations鈥�, ed. Santiago Hidalgo, March 2021.

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