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SCREENING EUROPEAN HERITAGE
The Leeds Centre for World Cinemas and B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for
Film Studies 12-13 September 2013, University of Leeds
Call for Papers
Screening European Heritage is an AHRC-funded scoping study under the "Care
for the Future" strategic theme. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers
and panels for an international conference to be held at the University of
Leeds, 12-13 September 2013. From La Reine Margot (1994) to The King's
Speech (2010), historical dramas dominate mainstream European film
production and often generate major national debates on the role of the
past in contemporary national identity construction. Defined in the 1990s
as "heritage films", the makers of such films frequently work in
partnership with the wider heritage industry in order to secure funding for
their productions. And the films, along with the debates they generate,
often shape the subsequent marketing and curatorial strategy of the
heritage sites they foreground in their stories.
Led by the Centre for World Cinemas at the University of Leeds in
collaboration with B-Film: The Birmingham Centre for Film Studies,
Screening European Heritage examines the representation of Europe's past on
contemporary screens, what this says about cultural attitudes to the past
and how this reflects, and can be shaped by, the policies and practice of
cultural institutions now and in the future. In the process, it raises
questions around the role and value of the past in cultural and societal
change, investigating how history is re-imagined by the contemporary film
and heritage industries and to what end.
We invite papers that engage with one or more of the project's three main
research questions:
* What role does European, national and regional cultural policy play in
the production of heritage films and how do filmmakers negotiate such
policy?
* How are heritage films consumed across and beyond Europe? Who is their
audience? What are the mechanisms of their consumption and how do these
mechanisms map onto those of the wider heritage industry?
* How do heritage films extend, or delimit, the possibilities of historical
representation? How do their various modes of emotional engagement with
history underline, or reflect tensions in, the aims of the heritage
industry as a whole?
Please email abstracts of approximately 250 words by 15 June to
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In conjunction with this CFP, the project also wishes to announce the
launch of its website. Apart from providing further information about the
project, its research aims and network members, the website also offers a
growing number of resources on contemporary European heritage film.
Visitors to the website will find weekly updates and are invited to post
comments.
http://arts.leeds.ac.uk/screeningeuropeanheritage/
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