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[ecrea] CFP: Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema

Tue Oct 31 13:45:47 GMT 2017





*/Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema/*

Edited by Joel Gwynne and Niall Richardson

Between the era of classical Hollywood and contemporary cinema, depictions of cross generational relationships have shifted dramatically. While such relationships have historically operated within the framework of heteronormativity and romantic love, and have usually explored cross generational relationships in the context of older men/younger women, contemporary depictions have expanded to focus also on taboo configurations of love between older women/younger men, and cross generational LGBT coupledom. Contemporary depictions have sought to complicate not only heteronormativity in cross generational relationships, but also navigate the differences between socially acceptable/transgressive love and desire. This collection seeks to address the changing values and attitudes of cross generational relationships, which can be broadly defined toinclude sexual, romantic, and unrequited love. Films which depict such relationships – while relatively uncommon – are notable for having been produced over the past 50 years with highly different consequences and outcomes for the lovers involved, reflecting vastly changing social mores. Such films include /Lolita/ (1952 and 1997), /Sabrina/ (1954 and 1995), /All T//hat Heaven Allows/(1955) /Gigi/ (1958), /Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner/ (1967), /Harold and Maude/ (1971), /Manhattan/ (1979), /Circle of Two/ (1980), /Great Balls of Fire/ (1989), /Poison Ivy/ (1992), /The Crush/ (1993), /Gods and Monsters/ (1998), /Ghost World/ (2001), /Something’s Gotta Give/ (2003) /The Mother/ (2003), /Mysterious Skin/ (2004), /Venus/ (2006), /Notes on a Scandal/ (2006), /Elegy/ (2008), Beginners (2010), /Adore/ (2013) and /Gerontophilia/ (2013).  This collection will focus on a diverse range of national contexts given the paucity of scholarship produced on this topic, and therefore seeks chapters which focus on films from Anglo-America (both mainstream and independent cinema), in addition to chapters on European and World cinema.

This collections seeks abstracts of 300 words for November 30^th 2017 for chapters of 6,000 words, due 1^st September 2018 sent to both (joel.gwynne /at/ nie.edu.sg) <mailto:(joel.gwynne /at/ nie.edu.sg)>and (N.D.Richardson /at/ sussex.ac.uk) <mailto:%4e.%44.%52%69%63%68%61%72%64%73%6f%6e@%73%75%73%73%65%78.%61%63.%75%6b>. The editors aim to publish the collection before the next REF exercise in November 2020.


Joel Gwynne is Associate Professor of English and Cultural Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Niall Richardson is Senior Lecturer of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK.

National Institute of Education (Singapore) http://www.nie.edu.sg


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