CFP: A Cinema of Love. A Cinema of Hate. The Post-Romance in Contemporary Film.
Editors: Antje Ascheid (University of Georgia) and Nina Martin (EmoryUniversity)
This
anthology seeks to explore the recent emergence of the"post-romance" in
international art cinema, which represents issues ofdating, love, sex
and romance, along with modern urbanity,"singularization" and isolation
in a fundamentally pessimistic or atleast highly skeptical fashion. The
concerns of contemporary plays and novels chronicling the collapse of
the family, the breakdown of marriages and the atomized loneliness of
modern existence (Franzen,Houellebecq, etc.) are matched here with the
re-emerging traditions of art cinema in independent film. As early as
1998, LA Times critic Kenneth Turan pointed to a new trend towards
immorality and nihilistic darkness in independent cinema, diagnosing in
films like Happiness (Solondz, 1998) or Your Friends and Neighbors (La
Bute, 1998) an inappropriate "lust for the grim." Like-minded critics
suggested theemergence of a "new cinema of hate." Since then, there has
been amarked increase in this generic development identifiable in art
filmsacross an international spectrum. This volume proposes to
investigatethe phenomenon of the "post-romance" as a counterpoint to
popular romance narratives prominent in heritage cinema and the
romantic comedy in a global context.
Possible paper topics could
include, but are not limited to, recentfilms by Lars van Trier, Todd
Solondz, Catherine Breillat, Olivier Assayas, François Ozon, Neil
LaBute, Mike Nichols, Michael Haneke,Oskar Roehler, Andreas Dresen,
Roger Avery, Nicole Holofcener, WongKar-Wei, Coline Serreau and many
others.
Proposals of 300-500 words should be submitted by May 15, 2006.
Electronic submission should go to:
Antje Ascheid
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Fine Arts Building
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
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