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[ecrea] CFP Theatre on screen / cinema on stage in and across English and French-speaking Cultures

Fri Oct 28 22:02:59 GMT 2011


Call for papers
> Theatre on screen / cinema on stage in and across English and French-speaking Cultures
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> The research centers CRIDAF from Paris 13 university, PASSAGES XX-XXI from Lyon 2 university, RADAC, The New York University in Paris, and the festival Théâtres au Cinéma from Bobigny, sharing a common expertise in the fields of drama, cinema, transmodalisation and intercultural exchanges within and across English and French-speaking cultures, plan to publish a series of two books dedicated to the many relationships between drama and cinema within and across English and French-speaking cultures. > These boks will be based on an international colloquium held over 2 days in Paris on March 15-16, 2012, and over 2 days in Lyons in March 2013. The theme of the 2012 forthcoming conference is « Theatre on screen within and across English and French-speaking cultures ». The theme of the 2013 conference is «Cinema on stage within and across English and French-speaking cultures ».
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> Theatre and cinema have been known to maintain reciprocal distance, each evincing their own idiosyncrasies (the actor's bodily presence in drama, the varieties and edition of shots in the cinema, for instance). Profitable art being the only one to survive in Western society, economic priorities have often opposed theatre and cinema in the run for subsidies as well as in their appeal to audiences, drawing a line between theatre and film fans. However, since the 1990ies, theatre and cinema have nurtured sustainable interaction.
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> Whilst understanding the specificity of both these art forms, it seems relevant to examine the points where theatre and cinema intersect into fruitful and considerate exchange. New forms of communication are seen to emerge from the traditional cross-over between the two arts (actors, directors and designers equally working in cinema and in theatre, or the age-old screen adaptations of theatre plays). Each art form tends to encroach on the other's specific writing techniques, be it video cameras and subtitles entering the stage, or blockbusters adapted into drama productions or musicals – English and French-speaking screen and stage productions evidently delighting in back and forth transposition. Are we witnessing the emergence of new dramatic and cinematographic forms from the dialogues and transfers between these two art forms? > Last but not least, do the history and the results of these hybridizations equally compare in the French and English-speaking cultural spheres? How do English and French-speaking cultures – also usually viewed in conflicting terms – integrate into their own artistic traditions such borders-free changes? Can a conversation between these arts be said to prefigure a potential dialogue between peoples?
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> Papers proposals for the first part of the colloquium on March 15 and 16 in Paris will specifically deal with the question of « Theatre on screen within and across English and French-speaking Cultures ». A second call for papers will be issued in 2012 for the second part of the colloquium: « Cinema on stage within and across English and French-speaking Cultures ».
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> Please, send your proposals together with a short bio-bibliography to both Agathe Torti ((agathetorti /at/ yahoo.fr)) and Christine Kiehl ((Christine.Kiehl /at/ univ-lyon2.fr)) before December 2nd, 2012. An answer will be given by December 17th. The scientific committee will select a number of papers after each conference for ensuing publication.

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