2^nd  Call for Papers

Russia on Screen

Identity and Appropriation

Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Russia and Cinema

Queen Mary, University of London

Saturday 10^th May 2008

As Andrei Tarkovsky’s /Ivan’s Childhood/ won the 1962 Golden Lion in 
Venice, /From Russia with Love/ was filling the cinemas of the Western 
world. While Russian films have won a total of four Oscars in the 
history of the award, David Lean’s 1965 /Doctor Zhivago/ alone won five, 
and Warren Beatty’s /Reds/ three.

Although in the hundred years of its existence, from the silent days 
onwards Russia has had a distinct and innovative cinema, foreign 
audiences have received their most influential images of Russia and 
‘Russianness’ from Hollywood through non-Russian actors.

The purpose of this conference is to explore the tensions between 
Russian cinema’s own explorations of identity and more popularly 
consumed representations of Russians and ‘Russianness’ in Western cinema.

Abstracts for papers are requested on the theme of images of Russianness 
in any area of Film Studies, including those working across disciplines, 
for example in comparative literature, music, history and gender studies.

Possible subjects for papers include:

Russian History on Screen

Russian Literature on Screen

Reception of Russian Film Abroad

Images of Russian masculinity and femininity

Russian filmmakers and filmmaking

Representation of Crime, violence and the Mafia

Russian Music and Dance in Film

Depictions of Religion and religiosity

The conference will be introduced by Dr Jeremy Hicks, QMUL, author of 
/Dziga Vertov: Defining Documentary Film./

The keynote speakers will be Professor James Chapman of the University 
of Leicester (author of /Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the 
James Bond Films/) and Professor Julian Graffy of SEES-UCL, prominent 
historian of Russian cinema.

Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be emailed to 
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to arrive by January 1^st 2008.

For further details, please contact: *Lucy Bolton and Miranda Shaw*

(Queen Mary, University of London),

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