Call for Papers
Catherine Breillat: Women, Sex, Violence, Cinema
Saturday, 12th April, 2008
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London
The work of French filmmaker Catherine Breillat spans a period of three
decades, though it is only in recent years, following the succès de scandale
that was Romance (1999), that she has come to wider public and academic
attention. Since then, Breillatıs work has continued to attract attention,
though detailed academic or theoretical exploration of her work has, for the
most part, been somewhat lacking and remains dominated by Romance. It is
with this in mind that we invite contributions to a conference examining
Breillatıs cinematic output from the 1970s to the present day. We would
welcome explorations of the thematic or theoretical issues her work
provokes. These could include, but are not confined to, the following areas
or questions:
Breillatıs approach to sex/sexuality/female desire
The portrayal and function of violence in Breillatıs films
Adaptation and the relation of film to text
The questions of authorship in Breillatıs work
Feminist approaches to Breillatıs work.
Censorship and/or extreme cinema
Constructions of the female/feminine
Philosophical/theoretical/ethical approaches to Breillatıs work
Adolescent sexuality
Relations between the sexes/sexual politics
Please email proposals of approximately 200 words to the conference
organisers by Monday, 19 November 2007.
Web address: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_Breillat.htm
Conference organisers:
Dr Richard Rushton
Institute for Cultural Research
University of Lancaster
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Dr Lynsey Russell-Watts
Department of French and Francophone Studies
University of Nottingham
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