With apologies for cross-posting. I would like to invited you, on behalf of the postgraduate students in Media and Film Studies at the University of Sussex, to a study day on representation in period films:
Representation. Period:
A Study Day on Representations, History and Nostalgia in
Period Film and Television
Department of Media and Film Studies and
Humanities Graduate Centre, University of Sussex,
15th September 2005
Call For Papers:
Academic discourse on period film and television has been dominated by work on the heritage film, costume dramas and adaptations. This study day seeks to expand the notion of period film and television to include a much wider range of times, histories and spaces. In particular, we also seek to expand this notion of ‘period’ film and television to include nostalgic interpretations of earlier popular texts (by both producers and consumers). Furthermore, this day represents an attempt to ally an attention to the historicity of film and television with a consideration of the politics of media representation. For example, how might gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity be continually constructed, represented and remembered through the production and consumption of period film and television?
We welcome studies that combine a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives such as: Reception Theory, Semiotics, Feminism, Marxism, Theories of Difference including Queer theory, and Audience Studies. Possible topics might include:
(Re)writing of history through the production and consumption of period film and television.
Classification of period film and television by industry and audiences – usage of ‘period’, ‘heritage’, ‘historical’.
Nostalgia as a commercial policy and a cultural activity.
Audiences for period film and television.
Contemporary remakes of popular texts.
Construction of identity in period film and television.
Popular cultural memory and the reception of period film and television.
Period television and genre – detective shows, dramas, comedy, literary adaptations and docudrama.
Submissions should be no more than 300 words and should be sent in the body of emails rather than as attachments. Proposals and enquiries should be to be sent to: [log in to unmask]
or can be sent by post to:
Representation. Period
c/o Rayna Denison
Media and Film Studies
University of Sussex
Falmer Campus
Brighton
BN1 9RH