1. European Cinema Research Forum Call for Papers July 2010

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*1. European Cinema Research Forum Call for Papers

*IS THERE SUCH A THING AS EUROPEAN CINEMA?***University of Exeter 2-4 
July 2010

A decade into the establishment of the European Cinema Research Forum, 
this conference aims to establish where exactly the ‘Europeanness’ of 
European Cinema may lie. Catherine Fowler argues in her introduction to 
/The European Cinema Reader/ that ‘we could almost say that without 
critics […] there would be no ‘European Cinemas’ (p. 1). This suggests 
that outside of the critical field there is no ‘European Cinema.’ Like 
the notion of Europe, that of European Cinema must refer to a space 
which relies on discourse to create its identity, to decide which 
nations and which films should be included. The idea of a pan-European 
film industry producing, distributing and exhibiting films with Europe 
has rarely been realised in any sustained way (despite various policy 
initiatives). Bringing together the various critical, theoretical and 
historical discourses of the European cinema, this conference asks us to 
investigate our own critical investment in the creation of European 
cinema, what is at stake institutionally, aesthetically and critically 
in this creation, and what purposes it may serve.

This interrogation can take place in a variety of ways, and questions 
the conference aims to address include:

    * Is European Cinema still associated with Art Cinema, as identified
      by David Bordwell and Steve Neale in the late 1970s-early 1980s?

    * Can directors who happen to have been born or who happen to work
      within Europe be identified as European ‘auteurs’?

    * Is there such a thing as a European cinematic sensibility?

    * Does European cinema have its own spatiality? What are the
      differences between a ‘European’ treatment of location and a
      ‘non-European treatment’?

    * What roles do institutional support and funding arrangements, such
      as film festivals or the E.U. Media Mundus programme, play?

    * How might we take account of the role of audiences within Europe
      and their relation to European film culture? Is there anything
      specifically ‘European’ about films produced in Europe that also
      belong to such contemporary transnational cinematic movements as
      New Queer cinema or post-feminist cinema?


This conference aims to complement current work comparing European 
Cinema to other ‘World’ cinemas and Hollywood cinemas by examining 
European cinema from within, asking what it means to watch, produce and 
analyse films within Europe and what political, ideological and cultural 
issues may be at stake in this activity.

We invite proposals for papers that address some or any of the above 
questions, as well as those that challenge these issues and/or 
terminologies.

Though the focus of this conference is Europe and European cinema 
encourage submissions that illustrate how alternative cinematic 
imaginaries interact with(in) Europe or even the way that European 
cinematic imaginaries are themselves disrupted in other contexts.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

    * Authorship
    * Place and Space
    * Film festivals
    * Stardom
    * Film policy
    * Transnational and post-national cinema
    * Gender, feminism and post-feminism
    * Emigration and immigration
    * Borders and margins

Proposals for individual papers should be addressed by email, by 28 
February 2010 to [log in to unmask]

Proposals for the gender, feminism and post feminism strand should be 
addressed by email to [log in to unmask]


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