*CFP* “ODD MAN OUT (CAROL REED, 1947): FILM, HISTORY, POLITICS”, NUI GALWAY

“Odd Man Out” (Carol Reed, 1947): Film, History, Politics

May 25 2019

Huston School of Film & Digital Media

NUI Galway, Ireland

Papers are invited for a one-day symposium on Carol Reed’s 1947 film starring James Mason as a wounded IRA man on the run, scuttling through the dark streets of Belfast in a bid to evade capture by the British authorities.

The symposium (and screening of the film) is organised by Breandán Mac Suibhne (The End of Outrage: Post-Famine Adjustment in Rural Ireland, Oxford 2018) and Tony Tracy (Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway) and seeks to develop upon existing scholarship across a variety of themes and approaches. 

To date we have a number of eminent speakers confirmed but are keen to promote as multidimensional approach as possible.

Among the themes we would wish to consider are:

• Odd Man Out as adaptation
• its status as an Anglo-Irish literary/cinematic narrative from historical, gendered and political perspectives
• its imagining of [Northern-Irish] space
• its place within the post-war oeuvre of director Reed
• its contemporary reception and ongoing legacy.

It is envisaged that proceedings will be published in a Journal special issue.

Please forward proposals (Up to 250 words) before April 1st to: tony.tracy@nuigalway.ie

The symposium is planned as an ancillary event to the Violence, Space and Archives conference at NUI Galway and is free of charge