An International Conference on British cinema,   10-12 July, 1998
**Call for Papers**
 
The conference will explore international dimensions of British film
culture and hope to attract contributions on:
 
* The distribution, exhibition, audiences and reception of British
films in both domestic and overseas markets, and non-British films in
domestic market
* The idea of national cinema
* Popular Genres
* British fils stars, the star system and film acting
* Quality film-making and British art cinema
*  Documentary, independent, avant-garde and experimental film theory
and practice
*  Questions of cultural exchange (relations with Hollywood and
Europe, British film-makers working  in Hollywood and elsewhere,
other foreign nationals working ion British cinema, representations
of British and British in other national cinemas)
*  The development of British film culture (popular and academic
publishing, magazines and journals, and critical traditions)
*  Film policy, cinema and the state, censorship, the organization
and development of the film industry and the work of key companies
and studios.
*  Film style and the contribution of producers, directors,
scriptwriters, cinematographers, art directors, costume designer,
composers, and actors
*  Techonology
*  The contribution of women and ethnic minorities to the development
of British cinema, and the representations of class, race, ethnicity,
place, gender, sexuality and youth cultures
*  Relations with radio, television and other media, and relations
with other cultural practices, such as literature, melodrama, music
hall, popular music and television drama.
 
Proposals for papers should be nore more than 150 words, and should
arrive by 6 January, 1998.
 
They can be sent by post to:
Jayne Morgan, Conference Administrator, British Cinema Conference,
School of English and American Studies,
University of East Anglia,
Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK
Or by e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
 
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