Dear All,
here there is a message forwarded on behalf of Laura Rascaroli, National
University of Ireland, Cork.
Best,
Salvo
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Dear colleague,
Please find copied below a call for papers for a
forthcoming postgraduate symposium in Film Studies organised by a group of
doctoral students at the National University of Ireland, Cork. I would be
very grateful if you would bring it to the attention of your postgrads.
Thank you, and kindest regards
Laura
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Laura Rascaroli
National University of Ireland, Cork
Image, Identity and Culture in Narrative and Documentary Cinema
Visual and narrative strategies in the representation of culture and
identity
A Postgraduate Film Studies Symposium
March 30th/ 31st 2007
University College Cork, Ireland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited for a film studies symposium on aspects of
contemporary narrative and documentary film. The nature of the cinematic
medium grants filmmakers a power to portray cultures and to reflect
identities through the audiovisual image. How is cinema used as an effective
tool of investigation to represent certain realities, and certain
identities, to domestic and international audiences?
Areas of investigation might include:
- Representations of masculinity/femininity
- Body and gender
- Liminal identities
- Race and ethnicity; regional, national, trans-national
identities
- Philosophy in, and of film - philosophical reflections on
the medium & aspects of the medium
Confirmed Key Note Speaker:
Professor Stella Bruzzi, University of Warwick (author of New Documentary,
Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood)
Organisers: Email Addresses
Daniel Deasy [log in to unmask]
Aoife Healy [log in to unmask]
Deborah Mellamphy [log in to unmask]
Stefano Odorico [log in to unmask]
Sarah-May O'Sullivan [log in to unmask]
Nicole Sigl [log in to unmask]
More information, including details of key note speakers, venues etc. will
shortly be available at <http://www.ucc.ie/filmstudies/pgsymposium.html>
Please send abstracts (250/300words) for proposed 20 minute paper, and a
short biography, to the organisers at [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by Wednesday Jan 24th 2007.
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Salvatore Scifo
Communications,
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
Communication and Media Research Institute
School of Media, Arts & Design
University of Westminster
Watford Road, Northwick Park
Harrow
HA1 3TP
MeCCSA Postgraduate Network
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
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