Screening the Past: Special Issue
Cinema/Theatre
Guest Editors: Des O'Rawe and Sam Rohdie
Screening the Past is seeking contributions for a special issue
devoted to the development of new writing on the formal and cultural
relations between cinema and theatre. The editors wish to publish
original articles that explore areas of aesthetic convergence between
film and theatre, and that significantly develop upon or challenge
existing studies in this field.
The editors welcome proposals that are developing innovative
approaches to issues such as:
• The influence or legacy of theatre in the cinema of directors – or
groupings of directors – with strong associations to both art forms
(e.g. Nicholas Ray, Jacques Rivette, Max Opüls, John Cassavetes, Jean
Renoir, Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman,
Eric Rohmer, Jean Cocteau, Jacques Demy, Luchino Visconti, Kenji
Mizoguchi, Otto Preminger, Robert Siodmak, Vincente Minnelli, Buster
Keaton, Federico Fellini, F.W. Murnau, and Carl Dreyer);
• The historical and structural relations between specific theatre
movements and the cinema (e.g. American radical theatre of the 1930s
and Hollywood cinema; or theatre, film and the European avant-gardes);
• The significance of theatrical acting styles, performance
elements, and staging techniques to the origins and transformations
of cinematic mise en scčne (e.g. 'theatricality', scripting,
improvisation, voice, gesture, choreography, dance, costume, etc.);
• The filmic integration or appropriation of theatrical genres,
conventions, and motifs (e.g. melodrama, illusion and magic,
vaudeville, puppets, masks, choruses, the circus, the clownesque, etc.);
• The influence of popular theatres and theatrical forms on Asian
and other non-Western cinemas;
• The institutional and stylistic impact of the migration of
European theatre directors, actors, technicians and impresarios to
the U.S. in the 1930s;
• The relations between theatricality and documentary film.
Please send 500 word abstracts/outline proposals to both editors by
31 August 2006.
Des O'Rawe: [log in to unmask]
Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen's University Belfast
Sam Rohdie: [log in to unmask]
Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Central Florida
All the best,
P.
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Peter Hughes Program Coordinator, Media Studies Program, La Trobe
University, Victoria, 3086, Australia.
ph: +61 3 9479 3065 (w), fax: +61 3 9479 3638 (w)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/media
Screening the past. An international, refereed electronic journal of
visual media and history:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast
All the best,
P.
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Peter Hughes Program Coordinator, Media Studies Program, La Trobe
University, Victoria, 3086, Australia.
ph: +61 3 9479 3065 (w), fax: +61 3 9479 3638 (w)
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/media
Screening the past. An international, refereed electronic journal of
visual media and history:
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast
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