SYMPOSIUM ON BILL DOUGLAS
Call For Papers
On Friday 23rd September The Bill Douglas Centre
for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture at the
Papers should be twenty minutes long and can cover any
aspect of Bill’s life, career, and collection: Subjects could include
(but not be restricted to):
The Bill Douglas Trilogy
Comrades
Bill Douglas’s unfilmed scripts
Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell’s Collection of Cinema
and Pre-Cinema artefacts
Bill Douglas and the film frame
Sound in Bill’s
The role of autobiography
Childhood
European influences on Bill’s work
Bill’s place (or not) in the social realist tradition
Bill Douglas’s influence on contemporary filmmakers
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to [log in to unmask] -
deadline date is Friday 1st June.
Thanks
Phil
Phil Wickham
Curator
The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and
Popular Culture
Old Library
EX4 4SB
01392 724321