[ecrea] CFP: British Art Cinema

Call for Papers (apologies for cross-posting)



Edited Collection – British Art Cinema

In recent years a number of British films have been released which 
together might signal the development of a rich, viable, contemporary 
British art cinema. Innovative, poetic and/or experimental films have 
been made by seasoned artists and newly discovered talents, such as 
Sleep Furiously (Gideon Koppel, 2008), Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008), Of 
Time and the City (Terence Davies, 2008), Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 
2009), The Arbor (Clio Barnard, 2010), and Robinson in Ruins (Patrick 
Keiller, 2010). Other recent British films display experimental 
aesthetics, or might, for a range of reasons, be situated within broadly 
defined concepts of art cinema, including Patagonia (Marc Evans, 2010), 
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lynne Ramsay, 2011), Tyrannosaur (Paddy 
Considine, 2011), Berberian Sound Studio (Peter Strickland, 2012), and 
Anna Karenina (Joe Wright, 2013).

There has been a long and complex history of serious British filmmaking, 
from the documentaries of Humphrey Jennings and the post-war experiments 
of Powell and Pressburger, to the artist biopics of Ken Russell and the 
fragmented narratives of Nicolas Roeg, to the work of idiosyncratic 
auteurs such as Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway, and Sally Potter.

The aim of this new edited collection is to come up with new ways of 
conceptualising and defining British art cinema which might take account 
of how far British cinema has been (and remains) a site of innovation 
and experiment.

We welcome 300-word abstracts for articles on any aspect of British art 
cinema, including (but not limited to) the following:

    * Critical studies of specific films
    * British art cinema and the avant-garde
    * Contemporary British art cinema
    * The historical viability of the British art film
    * British art cinema and transnational filmmaking
    * European and American industrial and aesthetic contexts
    * Art cinema and television
    * Genre
    * Audiences
    * English, Scottish or Welsh art cinema
    * Directors
    * Actors/stars
    * Screenwriters
    * British art cinema and realism
    * British art cinema and documentaries
    * Modernism/Neo-modernism
    * British cinema and poetry
    * British cinema and philosophy
    * Critics and criticism
    * Finance/funding
    * Producers
    * Distribution
    * Film festivals
    * Regional Film Theatres
    * Exhibition
    * Film societies
    * Video, DVD and Blu-ray releases

Please email 300-word abstracts to Paul Newland ((pnn /at/ aber.ac.uk)) or 
Brian Hoyle ((B.P.Hoyle /at/ dundee.ac.uk)) by 31 August 2013.


Dr Paul Newland
Lecturer in Film
Department of Theatre Film and Television Studies
Aberystwyth University
SY23 3AJ
Tel: 01970 622952

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