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[ecrea] cfp - Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema

Wed Oct 17 13:49:14 GMT 2018




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*Straight to the Front Row: Investigating Contemporary Western Gay Male Cinema*

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*Conference to be held at the University of Northampton (UK)*

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*16/02/2019 – 17/02/2019*

*Abstract deadline: Monday 5^th  November 2018.***
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From /Weekend/ (dir. Andrew Haigh, 2011) to /Call me By Your Name/ (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2017), from/God’s Own Country/ (dir. Francis Lee, 2017) to /Moonlight/ (dir. Barry Jenkins, 2016) and /Love, Simon/ (dir. Greg Berlanti, 2018), contemporary Western gay male cinema has endured a shift in both representational strategies and a boom in popularity within both mainstream and independent spheres, since 2010. ‘Western gay male cinema’, more specifically, refers to cinema that features a gay male protagonist, has narrative themes that relate to gay male identities and films that are primarily produced for gay male audiences. Prior to 2010, there have been Western gay male films that have been significant in either their representations or their popularity (ranging from the films that centred on gay men in New Queer Cinema to films such as /Brokeback Mountain/ [dir. Ang Lee, 2005]), however, Western gay male films since 2010 have: gained (mass) attention within hegemonic spheres of success such as the Academy Awards and the BAFTAs, infiltrated a plethora of genres from the Teen (Young Adult) Film to the Erotic Thriller and Romantic Drama, and some have begun to (further) investigate intersectionalities of age, gender, class, race and sexuality.           This two-day conference aims to investigate both independent and mainstream contemporary Western gay male cinema, and its many facets and iterations. We welcome contributions from postgraduate researchers, early career academics and established scholars, from Film, Media, and Cultural Studies more broadly, and we of course welcome papers from a queer, feminist or intersectional lens too. For the purpose of this conference, ‘contemporary’ connotes new and modern gay films, and therefore discussion and analysis should focus on films released since 2010. Lastly, while what constitutes ‘Western cinema’ or the ‘Western world’ is a much-debated topic, by ‘Western’ we mean films that are produced and released in Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand.


Our confirmed keynotes are:

  * Prof. Richard Dyer (King’s College London, UK)
  * Dr. Andrew Moor (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)

We welcome abstracts that centre on, but are not limited to the following in direct relation to contemporary Western gay male cinema:

  * Representations of gay male identity
  * Space, place, temporalities and time
  * Genre, ideology and iconography
  * Representations of sex and/or intimacy
  * Representations of love and/or romance
  * Stylistic and narrative techniques (representational strategies)
  * Analysis of critical and commercial reception of contemporary
    Western gay male films
  * Gay male audiences, fans and fandom
  * Intersectionality (age, race, class, gender, sexuality and
    disability etc.)
  * The relationship between mainstream and independent gay male
    filmmaking practices
  * The relationship between contemporary Western gay male cinema more
    specifically, and contemporary ‘queer’ cinema more broadly
  * Contemporary Western gay male films and their place in Queer Film
    Festivals

Please send abstracts of 250 – 300 words, with a supporting bio of no more than 100 words, to both Connor Winterton ((Connor.Winterton /at/ mail.bcu.ac.uk) <mailto:(Connor.Winterton /at/ mail.bcu.ac.uk)>) and Anthony Stepniak ((Anthony.Stepniak2 /at/ northampton.ac.uk) <mailto:(Anthony.Stepniak2 /at/ northampton.ac.uk)>).


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