[ecrea] cfp Catholics and cinema: productions, policies, power

Call for Papers ? Conference

Catholics and cinema: productions, policies, power

Oxford Brookes University, 2nd and 3rd September 2011

Keynote speech: Professor Thomas Doherty (Brandeis U)

There has been a renewed interest in how film and 
religion interconnect and how religious 
characters and rituals have been popular subject 
matters of movies. Books such as S. Brent Plate?s 
Representing religion in world cinema: 
filmmaking, mythmaking, culture making (2003), 
Colleen McDannell?s Catholics in the movies 
(2008) and Pamela Grace?s The religious film: 
Christianity and the hagiopic (2009) have 
provided an insight into the representation of 
religious people, places and symbols in world cinema.

However, over the last hundred years, Catholic 
organizations around the world have tried to 
assess, manipulate, control and intervene in the 
development of cinema. This inter-disciplinary 
conference seeks to examine and explore issues of 
power in the relationship between the film 
industry and an external institution such as the 
Roman Catholic Church. In particular the 
conference is interested in investigating the 
various contexts of production, distribution, 
exhibition, reception, classification, 
censorship, which have been influenced by an 
organization that has nothing to do with the 
commercial enterprise called cinema.

Papers, work-in-progress, and pre-formed panels 
are invited on issues on the following and other 
themes related to Catholics, cinema and power:

- Vatican film policy and its effects (for 
example the growth of national and international 
Catholic film organisations such as OCIC)
- Political pressure on national film 
legislations coming from Catholic film 
organisations (for example influence on national censorship laws)
- Catholic organisations? pressure on production, 
distribution, exhibition, film festivals, 
censorship, film criticism, technological 
developments,... (for example the role of the 
American Legion of Decency and their European counterparts in these fields)
- Forms of collaboration between Catholic Church 
representatives and film artists and critics 
(Roberto Rossellini and Felix Morlion?s long collaboration for example)
- Case studies of individual film productions 
whose development has been influenced by the 
Catholic Church or Catholic organisations (for 
example Rossellini?s The Flowers of St. Francis)
- Changes in cinema-going habits and the role of the Catholic Church
- Issues of Catholic censorship which has 
determined the success or failure of individual 
films (such as Luis Buñuel?s Viridiana, Federico 
Fellini?s La dolce vita, Monty Python's Life of 
Brian or Martin Scorsese?s The Last Temptation of Christ)



Organising Chairs
Daniel Biltereyst
Centre for cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
E-mail: (daniel.biltereyst /at/ ugent.be)

Daniela Treveri Gennari
Film Studies, Dept of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
E-mail: (dtreveri-gennari /at/ brookes.ac.uk)


Submissions should be:
300 word abstracts with a bibliography of 3-4 
titles, should be submitted by 30th January 2011. 
If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a 
full draft paper should be submitted by 30th July 2011.

300 word abstracts should be submitted to the 
Organising Chairs, following this order:

author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) 
title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) bibliography

E-mails should be entitled: Catholic Cinema Abstract Submission

Please use plain text (Arial 12) and abstain from 
using any special formatting, characters or 
emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We 
acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper 
proposals submitted. If you do not receive a 
reply from us in two weeks you should assume we did not receive your proposal.

It is our intention to publish an edited volume 
with articles included in the conference. More 
information about this will be available closer to the conference date.




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