[ecrea] CFP - Action Cinema Now

Call for papers: Action Cinema Now

International conference, 12-14 April 2019, Reading and London UK

Keynote speakers:

Professor Mary Beltrán, Professor Chris Holmlund

Professor Gina Marchetti, Professor Yvonne Tasker

At a moment when the relationship between popular culture, politics and 
society is again being sharply debated, action cinema as a dominant form 
of mass cultural production demands to be re-examined, as does the 
critical writing that has documented that form. Action films pose 
pressing questions about the extent to which a popular form can develop 
appropriate responses to the ethical dimensions of representation and 
marginalisation, particularly in a wider context of global 
multi-platform circulation. At the same time, they remain key sites of 
technological and aesthetic innovation and market negotiation shaped by 
complex local and global economic and cultural drivers.

This conference seeks to bring together scholars from a range of 
disciplines in a cross-continental, intercultural, intermedial and 
interdisciplinary examination of this wide-ranging form. To analyse 
action cinema in its heterogeneity, and in particular to skew away from 
traditional foci of action scholarship (such as the white cis-gendered 
male hero), the conference will be organised around four thematic areas: 
(1) regional exchange, (2) aesthetics, (3) performance, and (4) industry.

We invite 20-minute papers that consider action cinema in terms of its 
genre boundaries and outreach, its forms and affect, and its 
significance within wider fields of representation in contemporary 
audiovisual culture.

Please submit your 500 word abstract, 5 bibliographic references, and 
brief bio, by 5pm UK time on 28 September 2018, to 
(l.v.purse /at/ reading.ac.uk) <mailto:(l.v.purse /at/ reading.ac.uk)>.

We anticipate issuing acceptance notices on 31 October 2018. An 
anthology is planned following the conference.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Conference organisers:

Dr Lisa Purse, University of Reading, (l.v.purse /at/ reading.ac.uk)

Professor Yvonne Tasker, University of East Anglia, (Y.Tasker /at/ uea.ac.uk)

Professor Emerita Chris Holmlund, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, 
(cholmlun /at/ utk.edu) <mailto:(cholmlun /at/ utk.edu)>

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