Women's Filmmaking in France 2000-2010
2-4 December 2010
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU, U.K.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Although French women's filmmaking of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s has
received significant critical attention, there has been little work
to date on its
development in the 2000s in relation to the shift from national to
transnational
and global contexts of production, distribution and reception. This
international conference aims to re-visit and re-evaluate the complex issues
at stake in contemporary French women's filmmaking from a variety of critical
perspectives, investigating both continuities and new trends in the types of
films women have been making (mainstream, independent and experimental)
and the ways in which their work is encouraged or circumscribed by questions
of national identity, funding, distribution and audiences. It will
also reflect on
the relationship between women's filmmaking and 'third-wave' feminisms, and
the modified kinds of feminist readings that films by women still allow.
Continuities and trends in contemporary French women's filmmaking may relate
to questions of style, genre, trans/nationality, the industrial context, or
particular themes or issues. The filmmakers discussed should be at least
partly living or working in France (papers on migrant and diasporic
filmmakers
are welcome, as are papers on majority French co-productions), and the films
discussed should have been made in the 2000s.
Topics may include:
- women auteurs
- women filmmakers and popular French cinema
- women in the French film industry
- women's filmmaking in a transnational context
- women's filmmaking and 'the haptic'
- gender, sexuality, ethnicity, the body
- memory, trauma, the past
- postfeminism and a new political cinema
Proposals of approximately 200 words for a 20-minute paper, together with an
80-word bio-bibliography, should be sent to the organisers, Dr Kate Ince
((k.l.ince /at/ bham.ac.uk)) and Professor Carrie Tarr
((carrie.tarr /at/ virgin.net)) by the
first call deadline of 11 January 2010. Papers may be presented in either
English or French, but those to be considered for the proposed book
publication to follow should be in English.
