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[ecrea] CFP *Rethinking Disability on Screen*
Thu Dec 18 10:39:50 GMT 2014
*CFP: Rethinking Disability on Screen: A One-Day Interdisciplinary
Symposium*
Thursday 14th May, 2015, Humanities Research Centre, University of York
Website: rethinkingdisabilityonscreen.com
Twitter: @rdos2015
* Deadline for abstracts: 16th January 2015 *
Keynote speakers: Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures
and Film and Director of the Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities and
Justin Edgar, Filmmaker and Founder and Creative Director of 104 Films
(www.104films.com)
Cinema's visual interest in disability registered almost from the moment
of its invention. The historical tendencies of fiction film to show
disabled subjects as objects of pity or comedy, as 'monstrous', as
'resentful' or as segregated from mainstream society have been
critically documented from the 1980s onwards, but more recently, a
number of international films featuring disability - Les
Intouchables,Amour, Rust and Bone, The Sessions - have enjoyed both
critical and commercial success.
Alongside TV coverage of the London-hosted 2012 Paralympics on Channel
4, UK terrestrial programming has addressed disability across a range of
genres, from drama (Best of Men, BBC2) through comedy-sitcom (Derek,
Channel 4) and social documentary (The Undateables, Bodyshock, Channel
4), to mixed receptions. Such developments call for a re-examination of
representations of disability on screen and their contribution to
ongoing cultural, social, economic and political debates surrounding
disability. This one-day interdisciplinary symposium at the University
of York aims to unite postgraduates, early career researchers,
established scholars and industry practitioners working across a range
of fields and disciplines - including film studies, history, literature,
cultural studies, gender studies, sociology and health sciences - to
explore the ways in which cinema and television have reflected, and
shaped, subjective and objective experiences of impairment and
disability throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
We invite contributions in the form of 20-minute papers on a range of
topics and genres, encompassing both fiction and non-fiction materials,
as well as analyses of disability in production and reception contexts.
The event will be underpinned by a number of key critical questions:
- How visible is disability throughout the history of cinema and
television? In what screen contexts is disability present? When has it
been occluded, marginalised or suppressed?
- What specific forms of disability has cinema embraced? Which has it
neglected or rejected?
- To what extent have cinema and television engaged with the
emotional, physical and social implications of impairment and disability?
- What forms of spectatorship do screen representations of disability
construct/ presume?
- How have representations of disability on screen changed over time?
How much progress has been made, and what further directions should this
take?
Our aims are to facilitate constructive, interdisciplinary conversations
on existing scholarship, to discuss new avenues of enquiry and to
promote interest and growth in this important but relatively
under-studied area.
Presentation topics could include, but are not restricted to:
- disability, sexuality and romance
- disability and exceptionality
- isolation and integration
- dependence, independence, interdependence
- disability and genre (comedy, satire, romance, melodrama, thriller,
documentary soap, reality, children's film and TV, animation,
science-fiction, period drama, medical film)
- disability and film-making (able-bodied and disabled actors, directors
and producers, disability activism in the entertainment industry)
- commercials, advertising and promotional material
- spectatorship and reception
- discursive exchanges between the fields of disability studies and film
studies, past, present and future.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be emailed to
(rethinkingdisabilityonscreen /at/ gmail.com) by Friday 16th January, together
with a brief biographical note (100-150 words).
A number of travel bursaries, primarily for postgraduate students and
ECRs from the White Rose Consortium and the Northern Network for Medical
Humanities (nnmh.org.uk), are available thanks to generous sponsorship
from the Centre for Chronic Diseases and Disorders
(http://www.york.ac.uk/c2d2/). Details of how to apply will be announced
in due course.
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Catherine Oakley
Doctoral Candidate
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York, UK
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