[ecrea] CFP - Latin American Women’s Filmmaking

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

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*Latin American Women’s Filmmaking*

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*Senate House, University of London, 18^th  September 2017*

Forming part of the programme of events organised by the *Centro de 
Estudios La Mujer en la Historia de América Latina*, hosted by the 
*Institute of Modern Languages Research* and the *Institute of Latin 
American Studies* (University of London), and with the participation of 
the *Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies* (Birkbeck, 
University of London), we are pleased to announce the call for papers 
for the conference ‘*Latin American Women’s Filmmaking*’ which aims to 
contribute to the ongoing project of reviewing and rewriting Latin 
American film history and theory with women directors placed centre stage.

Latin American filmic production has rightly held a celebrated place in 
the global cinematic canon with many key filmmakers and theorists 
receiving significant scholarly and public attention. Traditionally, 
however, the vast majority of these acclaimed practitioners have been 
men. While recent years have witnessed an increase in the international 
popularity of notable directors such as Lucrecia Martel, Anna Muylaert, 
and Claudia Llosa, and in studies of women’s filmmaking in Latin 
America, much work remains to be done. Women have played a crucial role 
in the region’s rich cinematic history, yet many female artists have yet 
to be included in the overarching narrative of Latin American cinema 
history. Moreover, their contribution to the politics and aesthetics of 
the region’s filmic landscape has not been fully recognised or analysed. 
Indeed, the new critical methodologies required to examine these 
contributions are still under construction. This conference seeks to 
address each of these concerns.

The conference will bring together researchers interested in the filmic 
narratives and cinematic processes created and conducted by women in 
Latin America in order to analyse the contributions they have made to 
the region’s cinematic history.**Possible topics include (but are not 
limited to):

  * New Interpretations of cinematic works made by women in Latin America;
  * Latin American women Film Directors, Collectives, Producers and
    below-the-line staff;
  * Individual or collective social and political engagement in women’s
    filmmaking;
  * The expansion of the ‘political’ through engagement with the
    personal, the domestic and private in Latin American women’s 
filmmaking;
  * The role and significance of new technologies and formats (such as
    video and digital) in increasing women's participation in Latin
    American filmmaking;
  * Popular education through film and alternative dissemination
    projects led by women;
  * Latin American women filmmakers in exile (political or economic);
  * Women filmmakers’ transnational strategies of funding, distribution,
    and exhibition;
  * Sexual division of work within cinematic production and attempts to
    redress imbalances.

*Keynote Speakers:*

  * *Dr Deborah Shaw* (University of Portsmouth) and *Dr Deborah
    Martin* (UCL), editors of the forthcoming volume /Latin American
    Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics /to be published
    with I. B. Tauris and launched during the conference.
  * *Professor Lucia Nagib* (University of Reading), author of /The New
    Brazilian Cinema/ (2003) and /Brazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New
    Cinema, Utopia/(2007).

Titles of proposed papers, institutional affiliations, and short 
abstracts of 100 words should be emailed to the conference organisers at 
the (addresslatamwomendirectors /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(latamwomendirectors /at/ gmail.com)>*BY 20^th  FEBRUARY 2017*.


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