[Commlist] Call for papers – Desperately Seeking Papers

DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN @ 40: A CELEBRATION OF FEMALE FRIENDSHIP ON FILM

/Deadline for abstracts: Friday 17^th January 2025/

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/Conference Date: Thursday 10^th – Friday 11^th April 2025/

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/Location: University of Wales – Trinity Saint Davids, Swansea /


We are delighted to announce that an international conference 
celebrating the 40^th anniversary of /Desperately Seeking Susan/ (Dir. 
Seidelman, 1985) celebrating female friendship on film will be held on 
10^th and 11^th April 2025 at the University of Wales – Trinity Saint 
Davids, Swansea, Wales, UK.

Tasker (2012) recognises that although ‘the elaborate description of 
sentimental, homoerotic relationships between men is commonplace in 
popular cinema, yet texts that focus on female friendships have 
traditionally been relatively unusual’. Whilst the bromance exists as a 
common narrative trope, female friendship is still a rarely 
cinematically celebrated occurrence.

Female friendship is a central focus of /Desperately Seeking Susan/. 
This conference celebrates the 40^th anniversary of the film’s release 
through an exploration of the film and female friendship in 
female-centred films.

We are interested in receiving abstracts about but the following:

  * Historical or contemporary explorations of female friendships on 
film/TV
  * Unexplored or obscure female directed film/TV centring on female
    friendships
  * Female friendships in specific filmic or TV case studies
  * Susan Seidelman’s films/TV work
  * New ideological and feminist/intersectional/queer approaches to
    analysing /Desperately Seeking Susan/
  * The relationship between genre, audiences and female friendship
  * Critical reception and spectatorship of /Desperately Seeking Susan/
  * Production histories of /Desperately Seeking Susan/
  * The relationship between /Desperately Seeking Susan/ and other
    genres (rom com/doppelganger genre)
  * Madonna’s star image and/or the soundtrack of /Desperately Seeking
    Susan/
Submission Details:


Format: Abstracts (250 words) and a short bio (150 words)

Deadline for Paper Abstracts: Friday 17^th January 2025

Authors will be notified by February 20^th 2025

Deadline for Conference Presentation Submission: 1^st April 2025

Conference Dates: Thursday 10^th & Friday 11^th April 2025
Submit to: Rebecca Ellis (r.ellis /at/ uwtsd.ac.uk) <mailto:(r.ellis /at/ uwtsd.ac.uk)>

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