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THE CARMEN CONFERENCE

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

25-27 MARCH 2002

Keynote speakers: Peter Evans, Queen Mary & Westfield College,
University of London; Susan McClary, University of California at Los
Angeles; Jeremy Tambling , University of Hong Kong

Arguably, everybody 'knows' the Carmen story, partly because of the
opera, but also because of its passionately melodramatic encapsulation
of one of the major stereotypes of woman in Western culture, as the
number of film versions attests. 'Carmen' has been filmed no less than
77 times, six times in the 1980s alone. It is not just an example of
intertextuality, but arguably also the most potent modern myth of
woman as whore, femme fatale, self-destructing trap for the
weak-willed man. It is all the more surprising then that there has
been no substantial research on the film versions of the story. In an
attempt to fill this gap, the Centre for Research into Film & Media at
the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has set up the Carmen Project,
to provide critical analysis of the films, confronting versions of the
Carmen narrative both from the Hollywood tradition and from the
European tradition. We are holding an international conference as a
forum for the exploration of the Carmen story on film; we invite you
to join us in discussing this significant film theme at our
conference.

Conference page: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/carconf.htm

Programme: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/cartime.htm

Abstracts: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/carabstr.htm

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