[ecrea] CFP Black Film British Cinema Conference 2017

BLACK FILM BRITISH CINEMA

CONFERENCE 2017

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The Politics of Race in Contemporary Film and Digital Practice


18-19 May 2017, Goldsmiths, University of London

Institute of Contemporary Arts


*CONFIRMED SPEAKERS*

*Professor Sarita Malik*, Brunel University

*Dr Kara Keeling*, University of Southern California

*June Givanni*, Pan African Cinema Archives

*Additional speakers will be announced as they are confirmed.*

*THEMES*

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Whether we consider the rise of the concept of diversity, the on-screen 
representation of identities, the off-screen workforce, the production 
trends of film institutions, new forms of independent production opened 
up by new media, or film education and talent development, questions of 
race and ethnicity remain central to contemporary British film.


This conference will mark nearly 30 years since the original Black Film, 
British Cinema conference at the ICA and its subsequent publication, 
which has been a huge influence on scholars exploring race, culture and 
the politics of representation. Some of its core thinking by Kobena 
Mercer, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy and others remains an excellent point 
to consider what has, and has not, become of Black and Asian film and TV 
production in the UK.


The aim of this two-day conference is to consider the politics of race 
in contemporary British cinema and visual practice and reflect on almost 
30 years of black film production vis-a-vis the institutional, 
technological, textual, cultural and political shifts that have occurred 
during this period.  We invite scholars, early career researchers, 
postgraduate students and practitioners working at the intersection of 
film, TV, Moving Image, Media and Communication studies, Sociology, 
Politics and Cultural Studies. We would encourage contributors to 
reflect on themes, challenges and questions central to race and British 
film in terms of governance, production, representation, exhibition and 
spectatorship. These include (but are not limited to):

·       The politics of representation in contemporary film and digital 
practice

·       Diversity and film policy

·       The representation/politics of race in new digital platforms

·       Understandings of ‘Black film’ in the context of recent social, 
political and cultural change

·       The politics of gender and sexuality and intersectional 
approaches to Black and Asian film and visual practice

·       The political economy of ‘Black film’

·       The cultural, geographical and political contexts of Black and 
Asian film production

·       Participatory film cultures and movements

·       Methodologies for understanding contemporary film, 
representation and access

·       Film in postcolonial and race critical theory

·       The relevance and cohesiveness of ‘Black’ as an ethnic category 
in film production, policy and criticism

· /New Ethnicities, /the Black intelligentsia andfilm and TV production

·       The emergence of new sub genres (i.e Urban Film)

·       Higher Education, film studies and race, and approaches to Black 
film pedagogy

·       Race and diaspora in international cinema

·       Representation, identity and the ideology of race and ethnicity


*Abstract **Deadlines and Submission Process:*

*3rd February 2017*. Deadline for paper submission. Please send 
proposals for 15 minute papers to https://goo.gl/forms/OKbsHOpw9qCgKaXh2


These should include the following: title and name, institutional 
affiliation and address, and email address, together with a paper title 
and abstract of not more than 300 words.


*27th February 2017 *Paper proposers notified of decision by conference 
committee. Conference registration opens.

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*Thursday 18th May 2017*. Conference starts in London.


*Conference****Organisers*: Dr Clive James Nwonka (University of 
Greenwich), Dr Anamik Saha (Goldsmiths, University of London)


Further enquiries please contact:

Dr Clive James Nwonka

Email:(bfbc2017 /at/ greenwich.ac.uk) <mailto:(c.c.nwonka /at/ greenwich.ac.uk)>


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