[ecrea] Final CFP - Reimagining Beauty and the Beast - One-day Interdisciplinary Conference

*Call for Papers*

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*Reimagining **/Beauty and the Beast/*

*One-day Interdisciplinary Conference*

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*University of Bristol*

*7**^th ****September 2016*

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*Keynote speakers*

*Dr. Amy Davis, *University of Hull

*Prof. James Williams, *Royal Holloway University of London

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“/Since myths can be made to mean an indefinite number of things, it is 
more fruitful to study what in fact myths have been made to mean.” 
/Northrop Frye (1957)//

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/Beauty and the Beast /seems to possess a perennial fascination, having 
persisted in various forms for somewhere between 2500 and 6000 years (da 
Silva and Tehrani 2016) even before Gabrielle de Villeneuve published 
her famous version in 1740. It has held a particular attraction for 
makers of cinema and television: more than fifteen audio-visual 
adaptations have been produced since Jean Cocteau’s 1946 film. 2016 
seems an appropriate time in which to reflect on the tale’s continuing 
resonance, given that this year is both the 70^th  anniversary of 
Cocteau’s version and the 25th anniversary of Disney’s much-loved take 
on the story; a new (live-action) /Beauty and the Beast /is scheduled 
for release by Disney in 2017.


For this one-day interdisciplinary conference, we are inviting proposals 
for twenty-minute papers or video essays not only on any aspect of any 
version(s) or rendering(s) of the tale – whether in cinema, literature 
or other media – but also on the pairing of “beauty” with “beast” in the 
widest possible sense. One of the virtues of myth is its inexhaustible 
applicability, so we are particularly interested in proposals that 
discover Beauties and Beasts in places we had not thought to look for 
them. We warmly encourage proposals from interested postgraduate and 
professional researchers working across the arts and humanities.

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*Topics may include, but are not limited to:*


   * Studies of particular retellings or adaptations of the story (in
     literature, film, television, theatre, etc.)
   * The history of the tale (social, textual, material, etc.)
   * /Beauty and the Beast /as a motif reworked throughout the arts
     (music, painting, etc.)
   * /Beauty and the Beast /online (social media, fan fiction, memes,
     cosplay, etc.)
   * Gendering and/or queering /Beauty and the Beast/
   * Global and/or national perspectives on /Beauty and the Beast/
   * Critical reception and/or legacy
   * /Beauty and the Beast /as a tool for thought
   * Discovering /Beauty and the Beast /in unexpected places



Speakers are invited to submit *abstracts of 250 words *in English, 
accompanied by a brief biography (100 words) to 
(beautybeastbristol /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(beautybeastbristol /at/ gmail.com)> by 
*15th****June 2016*.


/The conference is being organized by: /

/Eve Benhamou (University of Bristol)/

/Miguel Gaggiotti (University of Bristol)/

/Dominic Lash (University of Bristol)/

/Steven Roberts (University of Bristol)/


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