[ecrea] CFP: British Landscapes on Film

*Edited Collection: **British Landscapes on Film. *

*Proposals by 1 October, 2011.*

From the earliest days of British cinema, filmmakers have sought to 
capture landscapes on screen. Some British landscapes represented in 
films have spectacular qualities. Others operate as everyday rural or 
isolated spaces. And others appear to be significant primarily because 
they are not modern and urban. Some of the most memorable, iconic and 
enduring images in British films feature characters in landscapes. This 
edited collection of articles will pull together work that seeks to 
understand how far British landscapes represented on film have been 
invested with meaning and significance, and, for example, how far this 
meaning is generated textually by the play of characters that inhabit 
these landscapes, or, extra-textually, by the connotations these 
landscapes might continue to have for audiences.

The editor welcomes subject-specific and interdisciplinary approaches to 
British landscapes on film. The primary focus of the collection will be 
on non-urban landscapes. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

   * representations of specific British landscapes in specific films
   * the landscapes of Wales, Scotland and England on film
   * the employment of rural locations in British films
   * British coastal zones on film
   * British landscape and genre
   * experimental and avant-garde approaches to filming British landscapes
   * the influence of landscape painting on British filmmakers
   * representations of pastoral landscapes
   * representations of sublime landscapes
   * representations of pagan landscapes
   * naturalism, realism and rural British landscapes
   * prestige and heritage British landscapes on film
   * settings employed in adaptations of British novels
   * political and philosophical debates around British landscape as
     reflected in filmic representations
   * the tension between the rural and the urban in British films
   * landscape in early British films
   * British silent cinema and landscape

Articles should be between 5000-6000 words and will be due by 1 
November, 2012.

Abstracts of 300 words and a brief bio should be sent to the editor, 
Paul Newland - (pnn /at/ aber.ac.uk) <mailto:(pnn /at/ aber.ac.uk)> - by 1 October, 2011.

For queries please contact Paul Newland using the above email address.

The editor: Dr Paul Newland is a lecturer in film in the Department of 
Theatre, Film and Television at Aberystwyth University (UK).

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