Dear WFHTN members,
In the run up to the Doing Women’s Film and Television History IV proposal deadline – Monday, November 13th (10pm GMT) - I am sharing a biography of our keynote speakers each day this week. The CFP for the conference is below.
Prof Shelley Stamp is a leading expert on women and early film culture tracing the contributions women made to early Hollywood as filmmakers, moviegoers, performers, critics and theorists. She is the author of Movie-Struck Girls: Women and Motion Picture Culture after the Nickelodeon and Lois Weber in Early Hollywood. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the UC President's Fellowship. She has served as a consultant for the National Film Preservation Foundation, EYE Film Institute Netherlands, Turner Classic Movies, and the American Movie Classics cable channel. Her expert commentary has appeared on several DVD releases of rare silent films and she is the Founding Editor of Feminist Media Histories: An International Journal<http://fmh.ucpress.edu/>. Currently she is at work on a comprehensive history of Women and the Silent Screen in America, co-authored with Anne Morey
*CFP
Doing Women's Film and Television History IV: Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next
May 23 – 25, 2018
University of Southampton, UK
Organising team: Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford
The focus for DWFTH-IV is predicated on the idea of the contemporary as an historical formation. The conference will offer a space to think about the interconnectedness of the past, present and future in feminist historiography and theory, as well as across all forms of women’s film culture and film and television production. It will also consider women’s film and television histories and their relationships with the contemporary, framed and read historically, to reflect on our methodological, theoretical, ideological and disciplinary choices when researching and studying women and/in film and television. In addition to this theme, we are interested in proposals/panels on all topics related to women’s film and television history, from all eras and from all parts of the globe.
The following is an indicative (and by no means exhaustive) list of possible topics:
* history formulated as in medias res: how do we do contemporary history, and what are the implications of thinking of the historical in this way?
* the impact of social, economic and industrial conditions on women’s roles and creative practices
* new ways of doing textual analysis of women’s films (rethinking feminist theory?)
* re-thinking women as ‘auteurs’ of film and television (directors, showrunners, producers, actors)
* international and transnational contexts: connections, comparisons, collaborations, migration
* crossing industry boundaries: film, television, theatre, radio, journalism, art, etc
* practice-based research: directing, screenwriting, sound/set/costume design, etc
* women audiences/viewers and women as fans
* women campaigner/activists in film and television and for on-screen/off-screen change
* women’s film criticism/women film critics
* women’s independent filmmaking and/versus women’s mainstream (or blockbuster) directing
* changing the curriculum: critical canons, pedagogies core modules/classes
* the relationship between film and television genres
* women practitioners’ negotiations of femininity and/or feminism in their working lives
* the intersection of class, race, sexuality, disability and women both on screen and behind the camera
* issues of archiving and preservation and distribution and exhibition and broadcasting
Proposals for twenty-minute presentations must include the title of the presentation, a 250-word abstract and a brief biography the author(s). Pre-constituted panels of three speakers may also be submitted, and should include a 250-word panel rationale statement, as well as individual abstracts. Proposals should be submitted to [log in to unmask] before 3 November 2017. Participants will receive a response from the selection committee before 20 December 2017.
Hosted by:
Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 2000-2015: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cswf/ and Women’s Film and Television History Network - UK/Ireland: https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com
Dr. Shelley Cobb
Associate Professor, Film
University of Southampton
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/film/about/staff/sc1p07.page
PI of AHRC-funded Calling the Shots: women and contemporary film culture in the UK, 2000-2015
www.southampton.ac.uk/cswf
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