Issue #81  War Films/Female Directors



The intent of this issue of CineAction is to open up to fresh  

investigation two areas of interest that have long histories in film  

theory and criticism, the War Film, and Female Directors and Film.

War Films present an intriguing contradiction in that this popular and  

historically omnipresent genre has not just sunk to the bottom of  

audience appeal - witness the box office disasters of even critically  

acclaimed films on US involvement in the Mideast, especially Iraq -  

but at the same time, the success of war at the level of the fictional  

and cartoonish superhero has never been more prevalent nor fiscally  

rewarding.

As for female directors, at this year?s Toronto International Film  

Festival a publicist commented that there had never been so many  

female directors? works being screened, to which a critic retorted  

that nevertheless, they still made up a fraction of all the directors.

While these two themes would appear to be quite opposite in  

practically all ways,..typically the War film has been aimed at male  

audiences, while female directors have been posited as producing films  

  that deal with women?s concerns and interests? a recent war film The  

Hurt Locker by Katherine Bigelow has prompted the necessity to  

reconsider the conventions.



Papers should be submitted in hard copy only, mailed directly to Susan  

Morrison, the editor of this issue. Once accepted for publication, the  

paper will then be emailed as a file attachment.

The deadline for submission is  March 1, 2010.  It would be  

appreciated if a brief proposal be submitted as early as possible as  

an indication of intention to submit.

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Please address all queries and submissions to the issue?s editor:



  Susan Morrison

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