[Commlist] Behind the Screen and Off the Stage Conference

Registration Open for Behind the Screen and Off the Stage: Film and 
Television Representations of American Entertainment Virtual Conference

London Metropolitan University
Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 November 2021


Conference Convenor:
Dr Karen McNally, Reader in American Film, Television and Cultural 
History and author of The Stardom Film: Creating the Hollywood Fairy 
Tale (Wallflower–Columbia University Press, 2020)


Final reminder of registration for the virtual conference Behind the 
Screen and Off the Stage: Film and Television Representations of 
American Entertainment taking place at London Metropolitan University 
from Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 November 2021.
The event is free but registration by Eventbrite at the below link is 
required to access the event:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/behind-the-screen-and-off-the-stage-tickets-175399473547?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch

Full details of the conference programme are available through the 
conference website:

https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/research/centres-groups-and-units/media-culture-and-creative-technologies-research-group/events/


About the conference:


Keynote Speakers and Talks:
Professor Steven Cohan, Dean’s Distinguished Professor Emeritus of 
English, Syracuse University and author of Hollywood by Hollywood: The 
Backstudio Picture and the Mystique of Making Movies (OUP, 2019) and 
Sunset Boulevard (BFI–Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022)

‘And They Lived Happily Ever After: Tarantino’s Rewriting of Hollywood’s 
History’

Professor Adrienne L. McLean, Professor of Film Studies at the 
University of Texas at Dallas and author of Being Rita Hayworth: Labor, 
Identity, and Hollywood Stardom (2004) and the forthcoming All for 
Beauty: Makeup and Hairdressing in Hollywood’s Studio Era (2022).
‘Making [It] Up: Cosmetics, Coiffures and Self-reflexivity in Classical 
Hollywood Cinema’



Movies and television shows set in the world of American entertainment 
have been a central feature of the big and small screens since the early 
days of Hollywood. From the backstage musical to the star biopic, and 
from the rise-and-fall narrative to critiques of the business of show, 
screen narratives have repeatedly sought to dramatize life behind the 
scenes of American entertainment. Their persistent allure is illustrated 
in film and television history ranging from Show People (1928) to All 
About Eve (1950), and from Valley of the Dolls (1967) to Fosse/Verdon 
(2019) and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020). Narratives that take the 
audience behind the screen and off the stage combine the exposure of the 
practices and strategies of the entertainment industries and the 
production of American culture with the dramatization of the experiences 
of their personnel and the mythologizing of both. They traverse every 
genre of film and television, and tell stories of fictional and 
real-life characters, as well as many who occupy a position in between. 
These films and television shows illuminate moments of crisis and 
opportunity in the entertainment industries, and raise broader issues 
about what defines American entertainment and the nation’s culture and why.
This three-day virtual conference hosted by the Media, Culture and 
Creative Technologies Research Group in LMU’s School of Computing and 
Digital Media seeks to explore the history and significance of these 
self-reflective films and television shows. Convened by Dr Karen 
McNally, Reader in American Film, Television and Cultural History, the 
event brings together an international group of scholars to consider a 
wide variety of approaches to the production and reception of these 
texts and to their representation of American entertainment behind the 
screen and off the stage.
We look forward to having you join us for this free virtual event as we 
investigate and reflect upon the impact and significance of 
entertainment in American film, television and national culture from 
early cinema to the digital age.


Conference Email: (behindscreenoffstageconference /at/ gmail.com)

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