[Commlist] CFP - Distant Shores: International Perspectives on the Australian New Wave

*Distant Shores: International Perspectives on the Australian New Wave*
Online Conference – 28-29 October 2021
Menzies Australia Institute (King’s College London)

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***DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 30 JULY 2021***

_INVITED SPEAKERS_

Bruce Beresford (film director)
Jonathan Rayner (University of Sheffield)
Allison Craven (James Cook University)
Jane Stadler (University of Queensland)


_CALL FOR PAPERS_

Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of both /Wake in Fright/ 
(Kotcheff, 1971) and /Walkabout/ (Roeg, 1971) appearing in London 
cinemas on the same weekend, this two-day online conference seeks to 
explore the range of international and transnational perspectives that 
helped shape the Australian New Wave of the 1970s and 80s.

Coming after a prolonged period of production ‘drought’, the Australian 
New Wave has typically been framed via the rhetoric of cultural 
nationalism, and celebrated for its articulation of a range of ideas, 
histories, and narratives about the Australian nation. Although there 
have been occasional efforts to address the New Australian Cinema’s 
place within global networks – either directly (Lewis, 1987; Macfarlane 
and Mayer, 1992) or as minor components of recent transnational 
re-examinations (Danks and Verevis, 2010; Khoo, Smaill and Yue, 2013; 
Davis, Gibson and Moore, 2014; Danks, Gaunson and Kunze, 2018) – the 
dominance of parochial approaches have often served to obscure the many 
international dimensions that drove Australian film production in the 
1970s and ‘80s, from international funding models and co-productions, to 
imported stars and the significance of international circulation and 
reception.

As Tom O’Regan remarked in his landmark work Australian National Cinema: 
‘If national cinemas are implicated internationally, Australian cinema 
has been remarkably implicated.’ (1996, 51). Building on those 
implications, this conference seeks to address the inherently 
international and transnational nature of the Australian New Wave, and 
we welcome proposals that draw upon a wide range of historical and/or 
methodological approaches to Australian cinema and film culture between 
1965 and 1985.

*The organisers welcome proposals from all levels of academia, including 
postgraduate students and early career scholars.*

Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- National cinema and settler colonialism
- International circulation and/or reception
- Global film festivals and the New Wave
- Ozploitation and global exploitation cinemas
- Genre, commercialism and international influence
- Australia and global art cinema
- International financing and co-productions
- The role of foreign-owned production companies
- Relationships with international state-funding models (e.g. Canada)
- ‘Runaway’ productions and location filmmaking
- Imported stars and international stardom
- Filmmakers returning from overseas to work in the local industry
- The international careers of Australian filmmakers
- International filmmakers in Australia
- Local and global film cultures

Proposals for individual papers (15-20 minutes) are welcome, and should 
include an abstract outlining your paper (max. 300 words), and a short 
author biography (100 words). The organisers are also planning an edited 
collection based on the conference themes, so please indicate if you 
would be interested in contributing.

Deadline for submission of proposals: Friday 30 July 2021

Please send proposals (or any queries) to the conference team via: 
(distantshoresconference /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(distantshoresconference /at/ gmail.com)>


_CONFERENCE ORGANISERS_

Dr Stephen Morgan (Menzies Australia Institute, King’s College London)
Liam Bell (PhD candidate, University of Sheffield)
Isabella Macleod (PhD candidate, University of Queensland)


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