Women and Contemporary World Cinema
We seek papers for an edited collection that will illuminate the representations and agency of women in the global age of world cinema. In focusing on the nature and implications of the representation of women constructed in and by world cinema this collection addresses questions of politics, gender and national identities that are key to understanding the status of women in the contemporary world. Similarly, the discussion of women as active agents be it as writers, cinematographers, directors, editors or performers enables an engagement with the continued, growing visibility of women in the global film industry. The collection will strive to evaluate the continuities and contradictions that may exist within different national, transnational and global contexts.
Papers are sought that use a range of critical perspectives including but not limited to:
Ageing
Celebrity Studies
Class
Community
Culture
Domesticity
Female audiences
Female authorship
Female gaze
Female subjectivity
Feminist film theory
Friendship
Genre Theory
Independent filmmaking
Motherhood
Notions of national identity
Performance and Performativity
Post-colonial Studies
Romance
Sexuality
Star Studies
Please submit abstracts of 300 words to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] by 1st March 2010. Anticipated date of publication is Summer 2011.
Dr Eylem Atakav is a Lecturer in Film and Television Studies at University of East Anglia, UK.
Dr Karen Randell is a Principal Lecturer in Film at Southampton Solent University.
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