[ecrea] *CALL FOR PAPERS* The Biographical Narrative in 21st Century Film and Television Postgraduate Seminar Series

>*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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>DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS EXTENDED UNTIL 14TH APRIL 2010
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>The Biographical Narrative in 21st Century Film and Television
>
>POSTGRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES
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>THURSDAY 27TH MAY & THURSDAY 3RD JUNE 2010
>
>This seminar series welcomes proposals for 
>papers from postgraduate students that consider 
>the biographical narrative, the Biopic, in 
>cinema and television of the last decade.
>
>Despite its status as one of the most 
>commercially and critically successful film and 
>television genres of the 21st Century the 
>Biopic, and its recent resurgence, has received 
>relatively little scholarly attention; Carolyn 
>Anderson and John Lupo in the introduction to 
>the 'Journal of Popular Film and Televisions 
>special issue on Biopics describe the form as an 
>overlooked, underappreciated genre whose [...] 
>manifestations deserve new and rigorous 
>scrutiny. This seminar series aims address the 
>need for a reconsideration of the Biopic and its 
>place in contemporary popular culture.
>
>Submissions of abstracts of 250-300 words for 
>papers of 20 minutes in length are invited.
>
>  Possible topics for papers include, but are by no means limited to:
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>"       Biopics and national/international histories
>"       Biopics and the question of authenticity
>"       Biopics and celebrity
>"       Biographical films and nostalgia
>"       Biopics and their representations of race, gender, sexuality.
>"       Postmodern, ironic Biopics and the role 
>of the biographical film in contemporary US Independent cinema.
>"       Biopics and the auteur
>"       Star personas and the portrayal of the biographical subject
>"       The biographical television series and 
>the place of the Biopic in contemporary television programming.
>"       Biographical documentaries
>"       The biographical narrative in European and World cinemas.
>
>
>Please submit abstracts by 14th April 2010 to 
>Victoria Kearley, (vlk204 /at/ soton.ac.uk)
>
>Victoria Kearley
>PhD Candidate in Film
>Avenue Campus
>University of Southampton
>Southampton SO17 1JB
>UK
>Email: (vlk204 /at/ soton.ac.uk)
>www.film.soton.ac.uk
>http://soton.academia.edu/VictoriaKearley

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