[ecrea] CFP Tim Burton conference - Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Tim Burton's Curious Bodies

Call for Papers
The First International Conference on Twenty-First Century Film Directors
University of Wolverhampton in collaboration with Light House Media 
Centre, Wolverhampton and Redeemer University College, Ontario presents

Gothic, Ghastly, Corporeal and Creaturely: Tim Burton's Curious Bodies
Thursday 15th February 2018 at Light House Media Centre*, Wolverhampton

Keynote: Professor Adam Barkman, Redeemer University College, Ontario

Film director Tim Burton has acquired an international reputation and 
critical acclaim for fantasy horror films that variously encompass 
alternative worlds inhabited by ghosts, animated corpses, grotesque and 
horrible bodies, or otherwise, ‘different’ beings. So too do creaturely 
apparitions feature regularly in his productions. While his work often 
centres on animated characters, he collaborates with a number of 
specific star personae such as Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, 
Christopher Lee, Winona Ryder, Vincent Price, Christopher Walken, Danny 
de Vito, Michael Keaton, and Jack Nicholson. Burton also frequently uses 
composer, Danny Elfman, as well as certain crew members and technical 
staff to work on his films. This one-day conference seeks to draw 
together scholarship on the theme of ‘bodies’ in Burton’s films and 
invites proposals accordingly. We particularly welcome contributions 
focusing on:

-Collaborative bodies – stars, actors, composers, and crew 
members/technical staff
-Grotesque and vile bodies
-Gothic bodies
-Animated bodies
-Compromised  and anomalous bodies, and ‘freak-show’ aesthetics
-Creaturely bodies
-Abject and corporeal beings
-Bodies between worlds
-Spectacular bodies

Please send a 300-word abstract along with a 100 word bio by Friday 8th 
December 2017 to: Fran Pheasant-Kelly, University of Wolverhampton 
(f.e.pheasant-kelly /at/ wlv.ac.uk) . A final listing of accepted presentations 
will be released on 15th December 2017.
Delegate fees for Burton’s Curious Bodies are £50 and £20 for 
students/concessions to include lunch, refreshments, and evening wine 
reception and screening of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children 
(2016).
* Light House Media Centre is the Black Country’s only independent 
cinema, housing two screens, galleries and a café bar within the iconic 
Victorian architecture of The Chubb Buildings.


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