The Deadline for this Call for Papers is May 2006, not 2005 as 
previously indicated.

CFP:
A Cinema of Love. A Cinema of Hate. The Post-Romance in Contemporary 
Film.

Editors: Antje Ascheid (University of Georgia) and Nina Martin (Emory 
University)

This anthology seeks to explore the recent emergence of the 
“post-romance” in international art
cinema, which represents issues of dating, love, sex and romance, along 
with modern urbanity,
“singularization” and isolation in a fundamentally pessimistic or at 
least highly skeptical fashion.
The concerns of contemporary plays and novels chronicling the collapse 
of the family, the
breakdown of marriages and the atomized loneliness of modern existence 
(Franzen, Houellebecq,
etc.) are matched here with the re-emerging traditions of art cinema in 
independent film. As early
as 1998, LA Times critic Kenneth Turan pointed to a new trend towards 
immorality and nihilistic
darkness in independent cinema, diagnosing in films like Happiness 
(Solondz, 1998) or Your
Friends and Neighbors (La Bute, 1998) an inappropriate “lust for the 
grim.”  Like-minded critics
suggested the emergence of a “new cinema of hate.” Since then, there 
has been a marked increase
in this generic development identifiable in art films across an 
international spectrum. This volume
proposes to investigate the phenomenon of the “post-romance” as a 
counterpoint to popular
romance narratives prominent in heritage cinema and the romantic comedy 
in a global context.

Possible paper topics could include, but are not limited to, recent 
films by Lars van Trier, Todd
Solondz, Catherine Breillat, Olivier Assayas, François Ozon, Neil 
LaBute, Mike Nichols, Michael
Haneke, Oskar Roehler, Andreas Dresen, Roger Avery, Nicole Holofcener, 
Wong Kar-Wei, Coline
Serreau and many others.

Proposals of 300-500 words should be submitted by May 15, 2006.

Electronic submission should go to:

Antje Ascheid
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Fine Arts Building
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
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Antje Ascheid
Assistant Professor of Film Studies
Department of Theatre and Film Studies
Fine Arts Building
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
(706) 542-2759

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