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: [log in to unmask] ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite