[Commlist] Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, Unreleased Film and Television - CFP deadline

We’d like to remind you of the upcoming conference abstracts deadline of 
31 January for the conference “Shadow Screens: Unmade, Unseen, 
Unreleased Film and Television”.  The conference is to take place on the 
23^rd and 24^th May 2022 at Sheffield Hallam University and will feature 
keynote talks from *Dr Hannah Hamad (Cardiff University) 
<https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwifpYapwPL0AhUkQkEAHcAlBNsQFnoECAQQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cardiff.ac.uk%2Fpeople%2Fview%2F953531-&usg=AOvVaw3qHbyQAePjGBbLgOVleGZw> 
*and*Professor Sue Vice (University of Sheffield) 
<https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/english/people/academic-staff/sue-vice>.*

We invite papers for submission on any aspect of unmade, unseen, and 
unreleased film, television, and other screen media. Suggested topics 
include, but are by no means limited to:

  * Gender / racial inequalities and unmade projects
  * Structural barriers and the unmade
  * The screenplay process: agents, script readers etc
  * The unmade as alternative media history
  * Archival approaches to the study of the unmade, unseen, and unreleased
  * Case studies of unrealised screenplays
  * Development hell
  * Methodologies for using unmade screenplays as a resource for
    scholarly research
  * Realisations of unmade projects
  * Outtakes and unused footage
  * Forgotten and unseen films
  * Fandom and unmade projects
  * The literary status of unproduced screenplays
  * Industrial perspectives
  * Creative failure
  * Other unmade screen industry projects i.e. videogames

Proposals for twenty-minute presentations to be emailed to Dr James 
Fenwick ((j.fenwick /at/ shu.ac.uk) <mailto:(j.fenwick /at/ shu.ac.uk)>) and Dr Kieran 
Foster ((kieran.foster /at/ nottingham.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(kieran.foster /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)>). Abstracts should be no more 
than 250 words and include a 100-word biography.

*The conference is convened by Sheffield Hallam University and 
University of Nottingham, hosted by the Centre for Culture, Media and 
Society (CCMS), and supported by BAFTSS.*


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