(apol for x-posting) THE CARMEN CONFERENCE UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE 25-27 MARCH 2002 Keynote speakers: Peter Evans, Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London; Susan McClary, University of California at Los Angeles; Jeremy Tambling , University of Hong Kong Arguably, everybody 'knows' the Carmen story, partly because of the opera, but also because of its passionately melodramatic encapsulation of one of the major stereotypes of woman in Western culture, as the number of film versions attests. 'Carmen' has been filmed no less than 77 times, six times in the 1980s alone. It is not just an example of intertextuality, but arguably also the most potent modern myth of woman as whore, femme fatale, self-destructing trap for the weak-willed man. It is all the more surprising then that there has been no substantial research on the film versions of the story. In an attempt to fill this gap, the Centre for Research into Film & Media at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne has set up the Carmen Project, to provide critical analysis of the films, confronting versions of the Carmen narrative both from the Hollywood tradition and from the European tradition. We are holding an international conference as a forum for the exploration of the Carmen story on film; we invite you to join us in discussing this significant film theme at our conference. Conference page: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/carconf.htm Programme: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/cartime.htm Abstracts: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/carabstr.htm ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite