[ecrea] British Cinema in the 1960s conference CFP

Call for Papers:

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*British Cinema in the 1960s: Histories and Legacies*

6 - 7 September 2017

BFI Southbank, London

This two-day conference, organised as part of the AHRC-funded project 
‘Transformation and Tradition in British Cinema of the 1960s: Industry, 
Creativity, and National Branding’ 
(http://60sbritishcinema.wordpress.com/about/) run by the Universities 
of York and East Anglia, will provide a space for exploring one of the 
most dynamic decades of British cinema history.

Its twin focus will be how we construct histories of the film culture of 
the period (who we talk to, what sources we use, how we interpret them) 
and how might we understand the legacies of the period’s cinema, not 
only in terms of influence on later filmmaking practice but also in 
broader film appreciation and fandom. Which are the films and names that 
live on and why?

Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to:**

·Historicising the 1960s and its cinema

·Archives, sources, methods**

·Key sixties concepts and the cinema: individualism, freedom, rebellion, 
permissiveness, entrepreneurialism

·1960s British cinema and tradition/history/heritage

·Youthquake in British cinema? Issues of youth and age in the 1960s

·Identity politics in 1960s British cinema: class/gender/ethnicity/sexuality

·Losing an Empire, finding a role: engaging with the imperial in 1960s 
British films

·1960s British cinema and Europe: production, exhibition and reception

·International connections: ‘Hollywood England’ and beyond

·Film in an intermedial context: 1960s British cinema related to other 
areas of cultural production

·Legacies of 1960s British cinema: influences, remakes, fandoms

Please send 200 word proposals for papers with short biogs to 
(laura.mayne /at/ york.ac.uk) <mailto:(laura.mayne /at/ york.ac.uk)> by 1 March 2017.

*Dr Melanie Williams*

Reader in Film and Television Studies,

School of Art, Media and American Studies,

University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, NR4 7TJ

Tel: 01603 593351

Email: (melanie.williams /at/ uea.ac.uk) <mailto:(melanie.williams /at/ uea.ac.uk)>

Twitter: @BritFilmMelanie

Latest book: David Lean 
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719073854 


Co-investigator on AHRC-funded project, ‘Transformation and Tradition in 
British Cinema of the 1960s: Industry, Creativity, and National 
Branding’ http://60sbritishcinema.wordpress.com/about/


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