[Commlist] Silver Screens: Ageing Masculinities in Film and Visual Culture [cfp]

*/Silver Screens: /**/Ageing Masculinities in Film and Visual Culture/*

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*CFP for conference and publications*

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*hosted by Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway Sept 4-5 2020*

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*Proposal Deadline: April 15^th 2020*

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Film and Visual Cultures [TV; advertising; photography; media] are 
instrumental not only in reflecting but in constructing and reinforcing 
popular images and narratives of ageing. In recent years such narratives 
have gained special pertinence with the demographic shift to older 
populations across European and western nations.

As cinema audiences, too, are “greying”, it is to be expected that 
explorations of the theme of ageing and representations of mature 
characters are becoming more popular and diverse.

This is confirmed by the success of *recent European films* such as /The 
Best Exotic Marigold Hotel/ (2011), /Amour/ (2012), /45 Years/ (2015), 
/Toni Erdmann/ (2016), /Youth /(2016) or A /Man Called Ove/ (2018), 
among others. However, despite this evident rise of older film 
characters, critical studies on ageing to date have been largely limited 
to selected examples in the context of Hollywood, while analyses of 
gendered ageing have primarily focused on images of older /women/ as 
actors and characters. Through this conference and resulting 
publications we aim to redress this lacuna.

Our interest ranges from the depiction of film characters to 
considerations about specific actors/stars, filmmakers or audiences. 
While our focus is particularly aimed at European film, comparative 
studies with other national cinemas and genres as well as comparative 
discussions of tendencies in Hollywood film are most welcome.

*Potential topics and approaches might include (but are not limited to):*

Representations of ageing masculinities and:

-Hegemonic gender norms

-Stardom and/or Genre

-National cinemas

-The body (e.g. sexuality, sports, disability, illness)

-Intergenerational relationships

-Queer ageing

-Memory, history and identity

-Death, mourning and loss

-Audiences (festivals, clubs, etc.)

-Comparative studies of images of ageing masculinities (national, 
textual, historic)

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*Please forward a 300-word proposal and a short bio to Dr Tony Tracy and 
Dr Michaela Schrage-Frueh at: **(Irishmascage /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(Irishmascage /at/ gmail.com)>*


The conference and ensuing publications form part of a wider consortium 
project “Gendering Age: Representations of Masculinities and Ageing in 
Contemporary European Literatures and Cinemas” [MascAge] funded under 
ERA Gender-Net + Project under the auspices of the Irish Research Council.

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