CFP: Post-Romance Deadline Reminder!
Call For Papers:
A Cinema of Love. A Cinema of Hate. The Post-Romance in Contemporary
Film.
Editors: Antje Ascheid (University of Georgia) and Nina Martin (Emory
University)
This anthology seeks to explore the recent emergence of the “post-
romance” in international art cinema, which represents issues of
dating, love, sex and romance, along with modern urbanity,
“singularization” and isolation in a fundamentally pessimistic or at
least highly skeptical fashion. The concerns of contemporary plays
and novels chronicling the collapse of the family, the breakdown of
marriages and the atomized loneliness of modern existence (Franzen,
Houellebecq, etc.) are matched here with the re-emerging traditions
of art cinema in independent film. As early as 1998, LA Times critic
Kenneth Turan pointed to a new trend towards immorality and
nihilistic darkness in independent cinema, diagnosing in films like
Happiness (Solondz, 1998) or Your Friends and Neighbors (La Bute,
1998) an inappropriate “lust for the grim.” Like-minded critics
suggested the emergence of a “new cinema of hate.” Since then, there
has been a marked increase in this generic development identifiable
in art films across an international spectrum. This volume proposes
to investigate the phenomenon of the “post-romance” as a counterpoint
to popular romance narratives prominent in heritage cinema and the
romantic comedy in a global context.
Possible paper topics could include, but are not limited to, recent
films by Lars van Trier, Todd Solondz, Catherine Breillat, Olivier
Assayas, François Ozon, Neil LaBute, Mike Nichols, Michael Haneke,
Oskar Roehler, Andreas Dresen, Roger Avery, Nicole Holofcener, Wong
Kar-Wei, Coline Serreau and many others.
Proposals of 300-500 words should be submitted electronically to by
May 15, 2006
Antje Ascheid
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Antje Ascheid
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Fine Arts Building
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
(706) 542-2759
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