Dear All,
You are invited to submit an abstract to the following sypmosium organised by
UWE Film Studies Research Group and Screen Studies South West Network:
Radical British Screens Symposium
Friday 3rd September 2010
Call for Papers
This one-day symposium, hosted by the Film Studies Research Group, UWE,
and the Screen Studies South West Network, invites papers on the theme of
radical British TV and cinema. We especially welcome papers from
postgraduate and early career researchers based in academic institutions in
the South West and papers on or by filmmakers working in the region.
Presentations on practice, as well as theory, are welcome. The symposium
will explore the landscape of current research in the field, focusing on history,
aesthetics, industries, institutions, themes, functions, and cultural moments.
The symposium will open up and interrogate the use of the term ‘radical’ in this
context.
Themes:
Radical content
Radical aesthetics
Radical intentions
Radical interventions
What do we mean by ‘radical’?
• What is the relationship between aesthetic experimentation and
politics?
• To what extent has neo-liberalism enabled radical filmmaking?
• Is feminist work inherently radical?
• What does radical filmmaking mean in terms of identity politics?
• Can film be radical whilst operating within the mainstream? Or is it
always compromised?
• Do the liberal humanist ‘social problem’ films of the 1960s count as
radical?
Is it possible to talk about a radical tradition in British filmmaking?
• Tradition implies continuity, but can radical filmmaking exist without
rupture?
• What creates these ruptures?
• To what extent is a tradition constructed retroactively by critics?
• Can popular and ‘low’ culture be radical?
• How have collective filmmakers constituted a new tradition?
To what extent have institutions facilitated radical filmmaking?
• How have key institutions played a role in facilitating radical film or
TV (e.g., the GPO Unit, GLC funding co-operatives, BBC, Channel 4 Film)?
• What is the role of government in regulating / censoring radical work?
• What is the relationship between anti-establishment filmmaking and
operating outside of the ‘mainstream’?
Please send a 250-word abstract with "Radical British Screens" in the subject
to both Estella Tincknell [log in to unmask] and Charlotte Crofts
[log in to unmask] by the deadline: 1 March 2010.
Many thanks and we very much look forward to hearing from you!
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