[ecrea] Current Thinking on the Western III

*Current Thinking on the Western III*

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14-15 June 2016

University of Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK.

A conference convened by Dr Lee Broughton (Leverhulme Trust Early Career
Fellow, University of Leeds) with Dr Mark Goodall (University of Bradford).

Keynote speakers:

*Professor Sir Christopher Frayling*(Professor Emeritus of Cultural
History, Royal College of Art).

*Alex Cox*(filmmaker (/Repo Man/, /Straight to Hell/, /Walker/, /Sid and
Nancy/) and academic practitioner, University of Colorado).

The conference will incorporate a special 50^th anniversary celebration
and screening of Sergio Leone’s /The Good, the Bad and the Ugly/ (1966)
that will be presented in collaboration with the National Media Museum
in Bradford on the evening of 14^th June 2016.  This special screening
event will include:

i) An introduction to the film by Professor Sir Christopher Frayling,
author of /Spaghetti Westerns://Cowboys and Europeans from Karl May to
Sergio Leone/(1981), /Sergio Leone: Something to Do with Death/ (2000)
and /Sergio Leone: Once Upon a Time in Italy/ (2005).

ii) A roundtable and Q&A featuring Professor Sir Christopher Frayling,
Alex Cox (filmmaker and author of /10,000 Ways to Die:/ /A Director’s
Take on the Spaghetti Western/(2009)), Ulrich Bruckner (President of
Explosive Media home entertainment and author of /For a Few Corpses
More: The Spaghetti Western from its Beginnings to Today /(2006)) and
Jeremy Wooding (filmmaker and director of the cult Western /Blood Moon/
(2014)).

2015-16 is proving to be a significant year for the Western. /The
Hateful Eight/, /The Revenant/ and /Bone Tomahawk/ have all enjoyed
critical success and there is every indication that we may be about to
enter a period of renewed public interest in the genre.  As ever, the
genre in all of its multifarious forms continues to inspire new and
fruitful avenues of academic research.

This two-day event seeks to draw together international scholars of all
levels (independent scholars, postgraduate research students, early
career researchers & established researchers) and media practitioners
whose work engages with the Western on film.

Proposals (around 250 words in length) are invited for 20 minute papers
concerning any aspect of current research or professional practice
relating to Western genre films but the following areas are of
particular interest:

Cult Westerns

Hybrid Westerns

US Civil War related Westerns

"Classic" Westerns

Western parodies

Revisionist Westerns

Political Westerns

Westerns made since 2000

Western stars

The Western on TV

Fan productions

The music of the Western

Gender in the West

Papers can relate to American/Hollywood Westerns or those produced
beyond the USA (Italian, German, British, South American, Australian, etc).

Proposals - accompanied by a brief biography - should be sent to:

Dr Lee Broughton: (L.Broughton /at/ leeds.ac.uk) and

Dr Mark Goodall: (M.Goodall /at/ bradford.ac.uk)

Deadline for proposals: *Monday 11^th April 2016*

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