Feb 9, 2019
London
Over the course of the 20th century and into the 21st, cinema,
television, and related media have become increasingly central both to
individual lives and to the lives of peoples, groups, and nations. Cinema has
become a major form of cultural expression and films both reflect and influence
the attitudes and behaviour of people, representing their tensions and
anxieties, hopes and desires and incarnating social and cultural determinants
of the era in which they were made.
Cinema as a whole has historically offered a rich setting for
understanding cultural interaction, however it functions within certain
political and ideological limits. It offers fascinating source material for an
examination of what, in the modern world, we understand as "otherness",
the cinematic "Other" being constructed in terms of race, ethnicity,
class, religion, gender or sexual orientation.
This conference aims to consider film studies from a variety of
critical, theoretical, and analytical approaches and to focus on how
"self-other" relations are represented.
Papers are invited on topics related, but not limited, to:
- Post-colonial discourses in the cinema
- Representations of femininity and masculinity
- Nationalism and multiculturalism
- Inclusiveness and belonging
- Orientalism vs globalisation
- Cinematic representation of the exotic
- Horror films and depiction of the supernatural
- Portrayal of homelessness and poverty
- Depicting environmental otherness
The conference is addressed to academics, researchers and professionals
with a particular interest related to the conference topic. Proposals up to 250
words and a brief biographical note should be sent by 10 November, 2018 to:
film@lcir.co.uk. Download paper proposal form from the official website.
Registration fee – 100 GBP
Provisional conference venue: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet
Street, Bloomsbury, London WC1E 7HX
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