Call for Papers
‘Reclaiming the Screen: Addressing Overlooked Women in Film and
Television’
Postgraduate Conference – Friday 14th June 2019.
Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), De Montfort
University, Leicester.
Keynote speaker: Dr. Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor of Film,
University of Southampton).
£5 conference fee: to be paid in cash upon registration
MA travel bursaries available – email (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)
<http://gmail.com/> for more information.
‘[T]he tragedy of film history is that it’s fabricated, falsified, by
the very people who make film history’ – Louise Brooks
De Montfort University’s Cinema and Television History Institute
(CATHI) is pleased to invite Postgraduates and Early Career
Researchers to its eighth annual postgraduate conference, focusing on
overlooked women in the film, television and media industries. This
conference seeks to offer a platform uncovering, challenging, and
drawing attention to issues relating to overlooked self-identifying
women across all areas of women’s film and television history,
culture, and production. There is a continued lack of gender equality
within the film industry, exemplified most recently by the absence of
any female nominees within the 2019 Academy Awards’ Best Director
category. This conference aims to offer a platform to the voices of
underrepresented, unheard and undervalued women. This conference is
also an opportunity to highlight examples of women’s autonomy and
agency within the television and film industries, from any era and any
part of the globe.
In hosting this conference, we hope to look backwards, seeking and
uncovering forgotten women, both on screen and behind the camera. In
looking backwards, we aim to also push forwards in relation to
challenging patriarchal structures of industrial and cultural
misogyny. We welcome a broad range of proposals from a diverse range
of voices, looking at the interconnectedness of past, present and
future issues for female-identifying individuals on and off-screen.
The event will end with a roundtable focused on improving and
challenging issues that the conference presents.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
* The gendering of industry roles.
* Ageing woman and visibility on and off-screen.
* Women in film and television academia.
* Women in the film industry.
* Representations of trans women, behind and in front of the camera.
* The intersections of class, race, sexuality, and able-bodiedness
of women.
* The politics of the gaze, and challenges to how we look at women
on screen.
* Coming of age female representation.
* Underrepresentation of female labour.
* Examples of transgressive, monstrous and subversive femininities
on screen.
* Forgotten figures.
* The #MeToo movement.
Proposals for twenty-minute presentations (both traditional and non)
should include the title of the presentation, a 250-word abstract, and
a brief biographical statement. Proposals should be submitted to
cath.postgrad@ <mailto:(cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)>gmail.com
<mailto:(cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)> by Friday 12th April 2019.
Applicants will be notified in late April/early May.
Twitter: @CATHpostgrad
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