Image, Identity and Culture in Narrative and Documentary Cinema
Image, Identity and Culture in Narrative and Documentary Cinema
Visual and narrative strategies in the representation of culture and identity
A Postgraduate Film Studies Symposium
March 30th/ 31st 2007
University College Cork, Ireland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited for a film studies symposium on aspects of contemporary narrative and documentary film. The nature of the cinematic medium grants filmmakers a power to portray cultures and to reflect identities through the audiovisual image. How is cinema used as an effective tool of investigation to represent certain realities, and certain identities, to domestic and international audiences?
Areas of investigation might include:
- Representations of masculinity/femininity
- Body and gender
- Liminal identities
- Race and ethnicity; regional, national, trans-national identities
- Philosophy in, and of film – philosophical reflections on the medium & aspects of the medium
Confirmed Key Note Speaker:
Professor Stella Bruzzi, Universityof Warwick(author of New Documentary, Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood)
Organisers: Email Addresses
Daniel Deasy dlsdeasy@gmail.com
Aoife Healy aoife_healy@yahoo.co.uk
Deborah Mellamphy dmellamphy@yahoo.com
Stefano Odorico maximo3@yahoo.it
Sarah-May O’Sullivan sarahmayosullivan@o2.ie
Nicole Sigl nicole_sigl@yahoo.de
More information, including details of key note speakers, venues etc. will shortly be available at http://www.ucc.ie/filmstudies/pgsymposium.html
Please send abstracts (250/300words) for proposed 20 minute paper, and a short biography, to the organisers at nicole_sigl@yahoo.de and sarahmayosullivan@o2.ie by Wednesday Jan 24th 2007.
