[ecrea] CFP: Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective, An International Conference, 11-13 May 2016

*Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective
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*An International Conference, 11-13 May 2016, De Montfort University,
Leicester*

*Keynotes:*

*Jan Harlan, Professor Robert Kolker, Professor Nathan Abrams and Peter
Kramer*

Much has been said and written about Stanley Kubrick. But not
everything. Nearly two decades on since the release of his posthumous
final film, /Eyes Wide Shut/ (1999), it is only now, with the donation
of his archive to the University of Arts London, that we are beginning
to have our eyes opened to new perspectives and understandings of
Kubrick and his work. The empirical potential that the archive offers
has been highlighted in recent years in the research by one of this
conference’s keynote speakers, Peter Krämer, who has broken open the
debates around authorial agency, collaboration, adaptation and
production contexts. Other scholars have similarly shone light on
previously unexplored perspectives, including Nathan Abrams and his
studies of the socio-cultural influences in Kubrick’s life, to the
uncovering of Kubrick’s time as a photojournalist at Look magazine by
Phillipe Mather, and most recent of all the new perspectives offered by
the edited collection Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. Taken together,
this research is generating new ways of viewing Kubrick’s films and of
understanding their aesthetics and themes.

In the sixtieth anniversary year of the release of Kubrick’s /The
Killing /(1956), Stanley Kubrick: A Retrospective aims to take stock of
the rise of these new scholarly perspectives of Stanley Kubrick and to
survey the wide field of interdisciplinary research on his work.
Therefore, we invite papers for submission on any and all aspects of
Stanley Kubrick’s life and work. Suggested topics include, but are by no
means limited to:

- Kubrick and Adaptation
- Kubrick’s short films
- Photojournalism
- Kubrick’s influences and lasting legacy
- Genre
- The Cult of Kubrick
- Music
- Conspiracy theories
- Screenplay studies
- Thematic interpretations
- Unmade films and lost projects
- Kubrick in the Internet age (Youtube, online fan forums etc.)
- Documentaries on Kubrick / Continuing Kubrick DVD re-releases and extras

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations to be emailed to Professor Ian
Hunter: (iqhunter /at/ dmu.ac.uk) <mailto:(iqhunter /at/ dmu.ac.uk)> and James
Fenwick: (james.fenwick /at/ email.dmu.ac.uk)
<mailto:(james.fenwick /at/ email.dmu.ac.uk)> with a submission deadline of *11
January 2016*. Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and include a
100-word biography.

The conference will feature keynotes from:
*Jan Harlan*, Kubrick’s brother-in-law and executive producer from
/Barry Lyndon/ (1975) through to /Eyes Wide Shut /(1999), and who
continues to tirelessly promote and celebrate the life and work of Kubrick.

*Professor Robert P Kolker*, author of the acclaimed /A Cinema of
Loneliness/ (4th ed. 2011), featuring the chapter about Kubrick,
'Tectonics of the Mechanical Man'. Kolker is a renowned Kubrick scholar,
with numerous other works, including the edited volume /Stanley
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey: New Essays /(2006).

*Professor Nathan Abrams*, having written about Kubrick’s socio-cultural
influences, including ‘Becoming a Macho Mensch: Stanley Kubrick,
Spartacus and 1950s Jewish Masculinity’ (2015) and ‘An Alternative New
York Jewish Intellectual: Stanley Kubrick’s Cultural Critique’ (2015).

*Peter Krämer*, who has written extensively on Kubrick, including two
BFI Classics (2001: A Space Odyssey (2010); Dr Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (2014)) and continues to
provide new insights and perspectives into his career.



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