NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY’S DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND MEDIA IN
COLLABORATION WITH BROADWAY CINEMA, NOTTINGHAM PRESENT:
HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE 1970s
An International Conference to be held:
Friday 6 July – Sunday 8 July 2001
There has been much recent attention given to the 1970s as a flamboyant
period of cultural history. However, many aspects of the decade’s cinema,
television, art, writing and music are consistently overlooked
This conference will examine both the less well-trodden aspects of 1970s
culture, placing particular emphasis on investigating a wide range of global
alternative and radical expressions, as well as encouraging new approaches
to popular culture and the mainstream.
We would welcome illustrated presentations on the following:
· The promise of 1970s film theory
· New Cinemas: Germany, Italy, France
· British directors in the 1970s
· Experimental cinema
· Fine art, film, video and the avant-garde
· Feminist filmmaking
· 1970s Hollywood and the challenge of the Independents
· Eastern European Cinema in the 1970s
· The Film Workshop movement – independent cinema in Britain
· 1970s cult film and television
· 1970s advertising
· Alternative distribution & exhibition practices
· Systems music
· Film and television documentary
· Radical theatre
· Television aesthetics and technologies
· TV news and current affairs
· Race and representation
· New sexualities
· Technology and the alternative press
· Gender
· The street video movement
· Computer technology and aesthetics
· Regional cultures
· Music: popular and alternative
· Film music
· The rise of World Music
· Special Effects
· Feminist Movements
· Masculinities
Please send proposals of approximately 200 words by 16 April 2001 to:
Viv Chadder, 70s Conference, Department of English and Media, Faculty of
Humanities, Clifton Campus, The Nottingham Trent University, Clifton Lane,
Nottingham, NG11 8NS. Tel: + (0) 115 848 3021. Fax + (0) 115 848 6632 Email:
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Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite
http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite
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