[ecrea] Doing Women's Film and Television History IV

Doing Women's Film and Television History IV:
Calling the Shots – Then, Now, and Next

University of Southampton, May 23 – 25, 2018
Organising team: Shelley Cobb, Linda Ruth Williams, and Natalie Wreyford


As researchers of the AHRC-funded project Calling the Shots: Women and 
Contemporary UK Film Culture 2000-2015 we are proud to host the fourth 
International Doing Women's Film and Television History conference in 
association with the Women’s Film and Television History Network – 
UK/Ireland.

The focus for DWFTH-IV is predicated on the idea of the contemporary as 
an historical formation. The conference will offer a space to think 
about the interconnectedness of the past, present and future in feminist 
historiography and theory, as well as across all forms of women’s film 
culture and filmmaking. It will also consider women’s film and 
television histories and their relationships with the contemporary, 
framed and read historically, to reflect on our methodological, 
theoretical, ideological and disciplinary choices when researching and 
studying women and/in film and television. In addition to this theme, we 
are interested in proposals/panels on all topics related to women’s film 
and television history, from all eras and from all parts of the globe. 
We hope that DWFTH-IV will build on the successes of the previous 
conferences through new work on women, both historical and contemporary, 
and fresh thinking on what we mean by women’s film and television history.

Calling the Shots is producing important new research on women in cinema 
now, through interviews, data analysis and writing. We are finding and 
recording all the women who have been employed in six key roles in 
British film production since 2003. We are interviewing over 50 of these 
women thereby producing a record of their involvement and achievements. 
The scale and forensic detail of the project shows both what they have 
done and where they have been excluded. Since its inception, Calling the 
Shots has been affiliated with WFTHN-UK/Ireland, and in doing our 
research we continually reflect on how contemporary study both relies on 
historical precedents and develops new models for thinking and working 
historically, while being focused on the present.


Keynote speakers TBC
 (The conference will include screenings with special guests, as well 
as sessions with film and television practitioners and other industry 
professionals.)


Papers are invited on any aspect of women’s work in, consumption of, and 
relationship with film and television. The following is an indicative 
(and by no means exhaustive) list of possible topics:




·      women’s film/TV historiography: filling gaps or changing history?

·      history formulated as in medias res: how do we do contemporary 
history, and what are the implications of thinking of the historical in 
this way?

·      methodologies: archive searches, data collection (uses, 
limitations, difficulties collecting); interviews with practitioners; 
creative/cultural industrial approaches

·       the impact of social, economic and industrial conditions 
(including industry regulation) on women’s roles and creative practices

·      new ways of doing textual analysis of women’s films (rethinking 
feminist theory?)

·      re-thinking women as ‘auteurs’ of film and television (directors, 
showrunners, producers, actors)

·      feminism & women’s film history; historicizing women’s film 
collectives of 1970s and 80s; feminist filmmaking today (and tomorrow?)

·      international and transnational contexts: connections, 
comparisons, collaborations, migration

·      crossing industry boundaries: film, television, theatre, radio, 
journalism, art, etc

·      practice-based research: directing, screenwriting, 
sound/set/costume design, etc

- the relationship between practice-based research and history

·      women audiences/viewers and women as fans

·      women campaigner/activists in film and television and for 
on-screen/off-screen change

·      women’s film criticism/women film critics

·      the uses of social media by women 
filmmakers/showrunners/actors/critics/fans/campaigners etc

·      digitisation in women’s filmmaking and future histories

·      ‘women’s cinema’ as critical category in post-feminist contexts

·      women’s independent filmmaking and/versus women’s mainstream (or 
blockbuster) directing

·      changing the curriculum: critical canons, teaching & film 
programming; pedagogies of women’s film and television history; teaching 
feminist history and theory; including women’s film and television in 
core modules/classes

·      the relationship between film and television genres, their 
gendered affiliations and women’s involvement in their production

·      women practitioners’ negotiations of femininity and/or feminism 
in their working lives

·      the intersection of class, race, sexuality, disability and women 
both on screen and behind the camera

·      issues of archiving and preservation for women’s film and television

·      distribution and exhibition and broadcasting – finding and seeing 
women’s film and television



Proposals for twenty-minute presentations must include the title of the 
presentation, a 250-word abstract and a brief biography the author(s). 
Pre-constituted panels of three speakers may also be submitted, and 
should include a 250-word panel rationale statement, as well as 
individual abstracts. Proposals from both established scholars and early 
career researchers including postgraduate students are welcomed. 
Proposals should be submitted to (dwfth4 /at/ gmail.com) before the 3 November 
2017. Participants will receive a response from the selection committee 
before 20 December 2017.

Calling the Shots: Women and Contemporary Film Culture in the UK, 
2000-2015 is an AHRC funded research project, running from 2014-2018. 
The project team are: Dr Shelley Cobb (Southampton); Prof Linda Ruth 
Williams (Exeter); Dr Natalie Wreyford (Research Fellow, Southampton); 
Ania Ostrowska and Sarah Smyth (PhD candidates, Southampton). Further 
details of the project can be found at: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cswf/
Further details on the Women’s Film and Television History Network - 
UK/Ireland can be found at: 
https://womensfilmandtelevisionhistory.wordpress.com



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