[ecrea] CFP: Cross Generational Relationships and Cinema

*/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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