NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY'S DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND MEDIA, IN
COLLABORATION WITH BROADWAY CINEMA, NOTTINGHAM PRESENT:
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE 1970s
An International Conference to be held:
Friday 6 July - Sunday 8 July 2001
There has been much recent attention given to the 1970s as a flamboyant
period of cultural history. However, many aspects of the decade's cinema,
television, art, writing and music are consistently overlooked
This conference will examine both the less well-trodden aspects of 1970s
culture, placing particular emphasis on investigating a wide range of
global, alternative and radical expressions, as well as encouraging new
approaches to popular culture and the mainstream.
We would welcome illustrated presentations on the following:
* * The promise of 1970s film theory
* New Cinemas: Germany, Italy, France
* British directors in the 1970s
* Experimental cinema
* Fine art, film, video and the avant-garde
* Feminist filmmaking
* 1970s Hollywood and the challenge of the Independents
* Eastern European Cinema in the 1970s
* The Film Workshop movement ñ independent cinema in Britain
* 1970s cult film and television
* 1970s advertising
* Alternative distribution & exhibition practices
* Systems music
* Film and television documentary
* Radical theatre
* Television aesthetics and technologies
* TV news and current affairs
* Race and representation
* New sexualities
* Technology and the alternative press
* Gender
* The street video movement
* Computer technology and aesthetics
* Regional cultures
* Music: popular and alternative
* Film music
* The rise of World Music
* Special Effects
* Feminist Movements
* Masculinities
Please send proposals of approximately 200 words by 16 April 2001 to:
Viv Chadder, 70s Conference, Department of English and Media, Faculty of
Humanities, Clifton Campus, The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane,
Nottingham, NG11 8NS. Tel: + (0) 115 848 3021.
Fax + (0) 115 848 6632 Email: [log in to unmask]
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