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Hi, could you send this out please? Many Thanks.
Sarah
CALL FOR PAPERS: Shane Meadows day event, University of East Anglia,
April 2010 (date and venue TBC)
Since the attention-grabbing short film Smalltime (1996) and his
debut feature TwentyFourSeven (1997), director Shane Meadows has
emerged as arguably the most distinctive young filmmaker in
contemporary British cinema. Following the critical and commercial
success of This is England (2007) - soon to be developed into a
TV series by Channel Four - Meadows has continued his project of
providing the forgotten communities and anonymous spaces of
provincial England with a singular cinematic voice. Having
attracted only limited scholarly attention thus far, the time is
ripe for a comprehensive overview of Meadows’ oeuvre.
We seek original 20 minute papers for an event devoted to Meadows’
output and his place within contemporary British film and
television, and we plan to publish selected papers as an edited
collection.
Topics could include (but are certainly not limited to):
- Representations of gender (particularly masculinity, but also the
possible marginalisation of women in Meadows’ films)
- Class and marginal communities/lifestyles
- Race / ethnicity
- Meadows and auteurism
- Regionalism / parochialism
- English-ness / British-ness
- Fatherhood as structuring motif in Meadows’ work
- Comedy and the function of humour in Meadows’ oeuvre
(comparisons with class-based/regional humour of Peter Kay and
Shameless, for example)
- Meadows’ films and their relationship to the social-realist
tradition
- Representations of the family
- Meadows’ short films
- Meadows’ TV work, including the Shane’s World series for
Channel 4
- Acting / performance / improvisation in Meadows’ films (e.g.
professional vs. non-professional performers)
- Representation of children / youth
- Nostalgia / the 1980s
- Dialogue / dialect
- Depictions of urban and rural landscape
- Meadows and genre
- Critical / popular reception of Meadows’ work
- Meadows’ ‘independence’ and his relationship to contemporary
British cinema / association with Warp records / funding
- Music in Meadows’ films
- Meadows’ use of digital technology / DIY aesthetic / filmmaking
practice
- His influences and intertexts
Please send 300-word abstracts to Sarah Godfrey ([log in to unmask]) by
31 January 2010.
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