CALL FOR PAPERS
Cinema and the Crossing of Frontiers
16th International Sercia Conference
To be held at the University of Bath, UK
Thursday 8 September ? Saturday 10 September 2011
Visiting Speakers to include Ken Loach
From the first, Cinema was motivated by a sense
of adventure, a desire to create and explore
new territories and technologies in its quest
for modernity. Cinema has continued, ever
since, to question, provoke, and shock; to push
back existing limits and to cross perceived
frontiers. The Bath conference will both
celebrate and embrace the adventurous spirit of
the medium, and will encourage creative and
innovative contributions that make the most of
the freedom to explore the open-ended theme of
Cinema and the Crossing of Frontiers.
For that reason, we have no prescribed
categories, but potential areas for debate might include the following:
* Crossing cultural and/or geographical and
spatial frontiers: issues of identity, migration, journey
* Crossing generic frontiers: ways in which
films exploit and subvert traditional genres
* Crossing technological frontiers, past
innovations and the new technologies
* Crossing artistic frontiers between film
and art, film and photography, film and
literature, film and music, or the
self-referential frontiers between one film and another
* Crossing frontiers between documentary and fiction; reality and fantasy
* Crossing psychological frontiers: dream,
imagination, madness and desire
* Crossing temporal frontiers: memory, history, sci-fi, time travel
* Crossing traditional frontiers of production, finance, exhibition
* Crossing the frontiers between screen and
spectator: new concepts of reception and identification
Proposals for papers (200-250 words), which may
be in English or French, should be sent as an
attachment in Word or Rich Text Format no later than
Friday 18 March 2011 to all of the following:
Wendy Everett:
<mailto:(w.everett.eurofilm /at/ gmail.com)>(w.everett.eurofilm /at/ gmail.com);
Nina Parish:
<mailto:(np222 /at/ bath.ac.uk)>(np222 /at/ bath.ac.uk); Peter
Wagstaff:
<mailto:(mlspjw /at/ bath.ac.uk)>(mlspjw /at/ bath.ac.uk);
Melvyn Stokes: <mailto:(melvynstokes /at/ hotmail.com)>(melvynstokes /at/ hotmail.com)
Please provide full name, email and postal address, and affiliation.
