[ecrea] CFP - New approaches to gender, film and television

CFP - DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED: FRIDAY, 15th FEBRUARY 2013


Following the success of the Cinema and Television History Research 
Centre’s 2012 conference, ‘Rethinking Cinema and Television History: 
Texts and Contexts’ at De Montfort University, we are delighted to 
announce the CATH Centre’s second postgraduate conference:



New approaches to gender, film and television: Histories and futures in 
the digital age



A postgraduate conference



Tuesday 26th March 2013, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK





Keynote Speakers:





Dr. Clarissa Smith (Reader in Sexual Cultures, University of Sunderland)

Author of One for the Girls! The Pleasures and Practices of Reading 
Women’s Porn (2007, Bristol: Intellect)



Professor Helen Wood (Professor of Media and Communication, De Montfort 
University)

Author of Talking with Television: Women, Talk Shows, and Modern 
Self-Reflexivity

(2009, University of Illinois Press)



In recent years, film and television studies have seen a sustained focus 
on gender as both a category and an object of analysis. The CATH Centre 
has been an active participant in highlighting the efforts of women 
through collaborative ventures such as ‘Cine Sisters’, in conjunction 
with the Cinema Museum, and the ‘Adopt a Woman’ campaign as part of the 
BECTU Oral Histories project. These projects, as well as research 
elsewhere like the AHRC-funded Global Queer Cinema project, indicate a 
growing interest in re-examining gendered boundaries in the film and 
television industries and in textual representation. Simultaneously, new 
technologies and digital practices are changing how archival material is 
disseminated, while online spaces are inciting new forms of fan response 
and interaction, and new forums are emerging for academics to engage 
with wider publics, fans and audiences. These technological and cultural 
shifts are increasingly pertinent to the study of gender in film and 
television studies but remain, as yet, under-theorised.



This conference will seek to explore the effects of rapidly changing 
technologies and platforms on the study of gender in film and 
television. What methodological challenges face postgraduate researchers 
in a context of constant change? How do new approaches to film and 
television studies affect gender representations and the way that we 
interpret them? And how do changes in the present affect how we approach 
studies of gender, past and future?



We invite papers that engage with studies of gender, new technologies 
and digital practices either through specific case studies or in broader 
theoretical reflections. Possible subjects include, but are not limited to:



-          Past and future issues of gender in the film and television 
industries;

-          The implications of changing platforms to contemporary and 
future studies in reception;

-          Online film and television criticism and new possibilities 
for academic engagement;

-          Textual representations of gendered futures and the future of 
gender representation;

-          How new technologies and digital practices affect studies of 
gender in film and television history.



Abstracts of 200-300 words for papers of 20 minutes, plus a short 
biography, should be sent to (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com) by Friday 15th 
February 2013.

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Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre Postgraduates

Room 3.06J
School of Media and Communication
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH

e: (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)


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