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CATHERINE BREILLAT:
Women, Sex,
Violence, Cinema
12th April 2008
International
Conference
organised by [log in to unmask]">Lynsey
Russell-Watts
(French and Francophone Studies, University
of Nottingham) and [log in to unmask]">Richard
Rushton(Institute
for Cultural Research, University of Lancaster)
Speakers include:
Douglas
Keesey,
Professor of Film and Literature, Cal Poly , California , USA
Sarah Cooper,
Lecturer in Film Studies, KCL
Catherine
Grant, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University
of Kent
Kate Ince,
Reader in French Film and Gender Studies, University of Birmingham
INTRODUCTION
This will be the
first UK
conference to focus on the work of French director Catherine Breillat, a
filmmaker whose work spans the last 30 years and who has provoked both media
debate and academic interest, particularly in the years since 1999 when her
controversial film, Romance,
was released. The first English-language book devoted to Breillat (written by
Douglas Keesey, published by Manchester University Press) is about to appear,
so this conference is timely, if not a little overdue for a filmmaker who
made her first film in 1976.
The conference will appeal to a wide range
of scholars and students, including those who work in the areas of cinema
studies, French studies, and gender studies. The conference will also attract
those interested in debates of eroticism and sexuality in cinema, especially
insofar as such issues intersect with debates on media violence.
See our website for more details: http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/events/conference/conf_Breillat.htm
This
conference is generously supported by
The
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Lancaster University
and the Society for French Studies.
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