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

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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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