[ecrea] Postgraduate conference: 'Exploring Boundaries in Film and Television'

*Call for Papers***

*Exploring Boundaries in Film and Television*

*Wednesday 14 June 2017*

*Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort 
University, Leicester*

*Confirmed Keynote Speaker: **Dr. Iain Smith, **Lecturer at**King’s 
College London*

The Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre, De Montfort 
University, invites postgraduates and early career researchersto its 
sixth annual postgraduate conference.

Cinema and television have always been media that operate on the 
boundaries of social, technological and artistic change. In light of 
recent socio-political events, it seems a pertinent time to consider and 
interrogate the concept in relation to film and television. This 
postgraduate conference encourages submissions that will examine 
emergent trends within cinema and television on the theme of boundaries 
- from diverse historical periods, production contexts and research 
methodologies - to encourage discussion on the term’s uses within cinema 
and television discourses.

The conference will aim to interrogate boundaries both within the texts 
themselves (such as genre, form, and geography) and also their 
production contexts (e.g. transnational co-productions or technological 
innovation).

The Cinema and Television History Research Centre houses a number of 
major film archives on-site. The day will also include a programme of 
archival training workshops focusing on key research methodologies 
within film and television scholarship.


Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

·Textual boundaries - remakes, paratexts, and adaptation

·Boundaries of taste (e.g. exploitation, nudity, violence)

·Social/political/culturalboundaries ofproduction

·Boundaries of genre

·Formal and stylistic boundaries

·Technological boundaries

·Boundaries/divisions of labour and production

·Transnational boundaries

·Ideological boundaries


Proposals for twenty-minute papers should include the title of the 
presentation, a 250-word abstract, and a brief autobiographical 
statement. Proposals should be submitted to (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)> by *Monday 3 April 2017*. Participants 
will receive a response by *late April*.

*Confirmed Keynote Speaker*: *Dr. Iain Smith *is Lecturer in Film 
Studies at King’s College London whose research interests include film 
adaptation and remakes, transnational cinema, cult and exploitation 
cinema, and global Hollywood. His recent monograph, /The Hollywood Meme: 
Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema/, was published in 2016.




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