[ecrea] Conference - Women in the work of Woody Allen

*Women in the work of Woody Allen*

* ‘I’m interested in the relationships that women have with other women’*

**

*_Saturday 13th January 2018_*

As part of a prospective edited volume, this one-day conference will 
explore the role and representation of women in the work of Woody Allen 
including his films, his plays, written work and his recent Amazon TV 
serial. It is our intention to bring together researchers to consider 
how women are represented in the work of Woody Allen, to consider the 
notion of the male perspective on writing women, and to explore the 
various approaches to relationships with and between women.

The subject of women and their relationships is a regular motif in 
Allen’s work. He has pointed out too that, ‘it became fun for me to 
write from the female point of view […] it was fresh’ (Allen qtd in 
Lahr, 1996:156). From mothers and daughters in /Interiors /(1978) and 
sisters in /Hannah and Her Sisters /(1986) to wives, best friends, 
girlfriends, mothers, hookers, evil queens and the Devil’s mistress, 
some of the most influential and commanding actresses of stage and 
screen have worked alongside Allen from Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow to 
Muriel Hemingway, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Diane Wiest, Madonna, 
Scarlett Johansson, Christina Ricci, Kate Blanchett, Emma Stone, and so, 
very many others.

Potential topics include, but are certainly not limited to:

·Mothers and siblings

·Person types

·Feminism

·Men writing women

·Relationships between men and women

·Relationships between women and women

·Themes of gender and sexuality

·Recurring actresses

·Jewishness

·Intersectionality

·(Auto)biography

·Collaboration

·Women and industry

·Industrial perspectives on writing and filmmaking

·

Proposal abstracts should be approximately 300 words and be accompanied 
by a 150-word author biography. All submissions must be in English and 
included as a single Microsoft Word or PDF attachment.

** PLEASE INDICATE WHETHER YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR INCLUSION 
IN THE PROPOSAL FOR THE EDITED VOLUME **

*Submissions close September 29th 2017*

Please submit all abstracts and any questions to our conference 
organiser at the following email address:

(woodyallenwomen /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(woodyallenwomen /at/ gmail.com)>

Twitter: @WomenOfWoody


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