[ecrea] CFP: Doing Women's Film History: Reframing Cinema Past and Future

>Womens Film History Network  UK/Ireland
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>Doing Womens Film History: Reframing
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>Cinema Past and Future
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>13-15 April 2011
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>  Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies
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>University of Sunderland
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>Despite their marginalization in film history, 
>women continue to be widely involved in cinema 
>as producers, directors, scriptwriters, 
>cinematographers, editors, designers, actresses, 
>distributors, programmers, cinema managers, 
>publicists, critics, audiences. This 
>international conference brings together 
>researchers, archivists, filmmakers and film 
>distributors to explore new research in womens 
>film history, asking how this impacts on 
>conceptions of cinema and how womens filmmaking 
>can be made more visible, accessible and relevant.
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>Plenary Speakers and Panelists so far confirmed 
>include: Debra Zimmerman (Women Make Movies, New 
>York); Heide Schlüpmann (Goethe Universität, 
>Frankfurt; author of The Uncanny Gaze); Sue 
>Harper (Portsmouth University; author of Women 
>in British Cinema); Christine Geraghty (Glasgow 
>University; author of Women and Soap Opera); 
>Laura Mulvey (Birkbeck, London University; 
>feminist filmmaker & writer); Felicity Sparrow 
>(Central St Martins; Circles); SP-ARK (Sally 
>Potter Archive); Jane Gaines (Columbia 
>University, Women Film Pioneers Project); Monica 
>DallAsta (Bologna University, Women Film 
>Pioneers Project); (Pittsburg University, author 
>of Wanted: Cultured Ladies Only: Female Stardom 
>in India 1930s-1950s); Neepa Majumdar (Pittsburg 
>University, author of Wanted: Cultured Ladies 
>Only: Female Stardom in India 1930s-1950s).
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>The conference will also include "screenings 
>"forums on teaching & the curriculum "the future 
>development of Womens Film History Network  UK/Ireland.
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>Papers are invited on a broad range of issues 
>raised by womens involvement in cinema: 
>"womens film historiography: filling gaps or 
>changing film history? "relationship between 
>feminism & womens film history "historising 
>womens film collectives of 1970s and 80s
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>"impact of women on cinema as audiences, 
>campaigners, fans "womens career moves from 
>other creative industries into cinema "migrant 
>and diasporic womens filmmaking "cross-national 
>connections & comparisons " strategies for 
>archiving, preservation & exhibition of womens 
>films "sources & methodologies for 
>gender-oriented film research "impact of 
>digitisation on womens filmmaking & future 
>histories " womens cinema as critical 
>category in post-feminist contexts " womens 
>film history & womens film practice now 
>"changing the curriculum: critical canons, teaching & film programming
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>Womens History Review, Journal of British 
>Cinema and Television, History Workshop Journal 
>and Framework have indicated interest in 
>publishing suitable papers, subject to 
>reviewers reports. Proposals from post-graduate 
>researchers are welcome and some bursaries offered.
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>Proposals (150 word limit) for presentations of 
>20 minutes (including audiovisual material) 
>should be sent by 1 December 2010 to: Lianne 
>Hopper, The David Puttnam Media Centre, Sir Tom 
>Cowie Campus at St Peters, St Peters Way, 
>Sunderland, SR6 ODD, UK; or by email to: 
><mailto:(wfhconference /at/ sunderland.ac.uk)>(wfhconference /at/ sunderland.ac.uk). 
>For more information please visit our conference 
>blog: 
><http://wfhnsunderland.blogspot.com/p/directions.html>http://wfhnsunderland.blogspot.com/p/directions.html

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