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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