[ecrea] Symposium: Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television

>Symposium: Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television
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>Organisers: Text, Genre and Visual Studies 
>Group, Media and Performing Arts, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
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>Date: 29 October 2010.
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>Venue: Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
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>Times: 9.30  5.30.
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>Melodrama is one of film and televisions 
>primary historical, aesthetic and ideological 
>modes, and it continues to be applied usefully 
>and variously to film and TV texts. In cultural 
>criticism broadly, however, there is still a 
>tendency to think of melodrama as a domestic and 
>at best diminished form. This symposium will 
>consider the continued relevance of melodrama to 
>contemporary and international texts, as well as 
>the contested and changing meanings of the mode 
>in film and television studies. The symposium is 
>particularly interested in, but is not restricted to, the following themes:
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>·       Genre, narrative and mise en scène
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>·       Realism and neo-realisms
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>·       Gender, sexuality and queer identities
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>·       Adaptation, translation and the transcultural
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>·       Region, nation and the post-national
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>·       Memory, nostalgia and reclaimed histories
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>·       Interdisciplinarity
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>·       Cross-media forms
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>The symposium is free to attend and includes 
>lunch, but places will be limited. Confirmed 
>speakers include Gary Needham, author of 
>Brokeback Mountain, EUP, 2010, and Glen Creeber, 
>author of Serial Television: Big Drama on the Small Screen, BFI, 2004.
>
>If you are interested in participating in the 
>symposium, please send an abstract 
>(approximately 200 words) of a proposed paper 
>and brief biographical details to 
><mailto:(mstewart /at/ qmu.ac.uk)>(mstewart /at/ qmu.ac.uk) no 
>later than 24th September 2010.
>

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