[ecrea] CFP: Geriaction Cinema: A Symposium on the Ageing Action Star

*_Geriaction Cinema: A Symposium on the Ageing Action Star_*

*Bournemouth University, 10^th – 11^th May 2018*

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*Keynote speaker:*Professor Rajinder Dudrah (Birmingham City University)

The action film has been widely analysed for its investment in 
spectacle, its hyperbolic masculinity, its significance for film 
marketing and its ideological implications across various conflicts and 
contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. So too have its 
stars been extensively framed in their cultural-political surroundings 
over recent decades of film scholarship. As the action-adventure 
format’s most contemporary manifestation in the blockbuster era reaches 
middle age, and the personae of Cold-War era action stars increasingly 
adapt to incorporate themes of ageing, debates around seniority in the 
genre’s marquee personnel are ever more timely.

This symposium will offer delegates the opportunity to discuss the 
concept of the ageing action star across historical periods, genders, 
ethnicities and national cinemas, bringing together diverse perspectives 
on the historical and political coordinates of this enduring genre. We 
are especially keen to encourage scholars looking at stars from outside 
Hollywood and Europe. Likely topics include but are not restricted to:


  * The ageing star in early action cinema
  * Reinvigorated transnational stardom in the twilight of action careers
  * Studies of action cinema's political/historical contexts relating to
    ageing
  * The impact of ageing on star personae (eg Arnold Schwarzenegger,
    John Wayne)
  * Themes of ageing in action cinema
  * Digital de-ageing
  * The older female action star
  * Gender relations in action cinema
  * Careers after action
  * Becoming an action star late in a career


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·We seek proposals for 20-minute papers, or for pre-constituted panels 
of three or four papers, that engage with any aspects of the above 
topic. Abstracts of no more than 300 words, along with a short 
biographical note, should be submitted for peer review to

Dr Laura Crossley: (lcrossley /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(lcrossley /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>and/or

Dr Austin Fisher: (afisher /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(geriactioncinema /at/ bournemouth.ac.uk)>

by *26 January 2018*.


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