[ecrea] CFP Theatre on screen / cinema on stage in and across English and French-speaking Cultures

Call for papers
> Theatre on screen / cinema on stage in and across English and 
French-speaking Cultures
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> The research centers CRIDAF from Paris 13 university,  PASSAGES 
XX-XXI from Lyon 2 university, RADAC, The New York University in Paris, 
and the festival Théâtres au Cinéma from Bobigny, sharing a common 
expertise in the fields of drama, cinema, transmodalisation and 
intercultural exchanges within and across English and French-speaking 
cultures, plan to publish a series of two books dedicated to the many 
relationships between drama and cinema within and across English and 
French-speaking cultures.
> These boks will be based on an international colloquium held over 2 
days in Paris on March 15-16, 2012, and over 2 days in Lyons in March 
2013. The theme of the 2012 forthcoming conference is « Theatre on 
screen within and across English and French-speaking cultures ». The 
theme of the 2013 conference is «Cinema on stage within and across 
English and French-speaking cultures ».
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> Theatre and cinema have been known to maintain reciprocal distance, 
each evincing their own idiosyncrasies (the actor's bodily presence in 
drama, the varieties and edition of shots in the cinema, for instance). 
Profitable art being the only one to survive in Western society, 
economic priorities have often opposed theatre and cinema in the run for 
subsidies as well as in their appeal to audiences, drawing a line 
between theatre and film fans. However, since the 1990ies, theatre and 
cinema have nurtured sustainable interaction.
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> Whilst understanding the specificity of both these art forms, it 
seems relevant to examine the points where theatre and cinema intersect 
into fruitful and considerate exchange. New forms of communication are 
seen to emerge from the traditional cross-over between the two arts 
(actors, directors and designers equally working in cinema and in 
theatre, or the age-old screen adaptations of theatre plays). Each art 
form tends to encroach on the other's specific writing techniques, be it 
video cameras and subtitles entering the stage, or blockbusters adapted 
into drama productions or musicals – English and French-speaking screen 
and stage productions evidently delighting in back and forth 
transposition. Are we witnessing the emergence of new dramatic and 
cinematographic forms from the dialogues and transfers between these two 
art forms?
> Last but not least, do the history and the results of these 
hybridizations equally compare in the French and English-speaking 
cultural spheres? How do English and French-speaking cultures – also 
usually viewed in conflicting terms – integrate into their own artistic 
traditions such borders-free changes? Can a conversation between these 
arts be said to prefigure a potential dialogue between peoples?
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> Papers proposals for the first part of the colloquium on March 15 and 
16 in Paris will specifically deal with the question of « Theatre on 
screen within and across English and French-speaking Cultures ». A 
second call for papers will be issued in 2012 for the second part of the 
colloquium: « Cinema on stage within and across English and 
French-speaking Cultures ».
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> Please, send your proposals together with a short bio-bibliography to 
both Agathe Torti ((agathetorti /at/ yahoo.fr)) and Christine Kiehl 
((Christine.Kiehl /at/ univ-lyon2.fr)) before December 2nd, 2012. An answer 
will be given by December 17th. The scientific committee will select a 
number of papers after each conference for ensuing publication.

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