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>From: "Elystan Griffiths" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP 'Disunited Nations: Cinema Beyond the Nation-State'
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>Disunited Nations: Cinema Beyond the Nation-State
>
>27-28 April 2007 at Midlands Arts Centre, Edgbaston, Birmingham with 
>keynote addresses by Professor Tim Bergfelder (University of 
>Southampton) and Dr Shohini Chaudhuri (University of Essex)
>
>Over the last few years a number of terms have been employed to 
>conceptualise cinema beyond the boundaries of the nation-state, such 
>as transnational cinema, accented cinema and transvergent cinema. 
>Such terms respond both to the emergence within international cinema 
>of a considerable body of work in which questions of migration and 
>passage are uppermost, and to the increasing internationalisation of 
>film production itself, as co-financing across national borders 
>becomes the norm, and film producers are ever more reliant on global 
>companies and media conglomerates to get films funded. As these 
>trends have developed, the entrenched national identities of 
>cinematic tradition have begun to dissolve, giving way to 
>alternative criteria for discerning and inscribing identity as well 
>as more uncertain geographies. Films have often focused on 
>situations of conflict and the conflicting cultural identities 
>produced by immigration or by characters in transit or on disputed 
>and border territories. Where such conflict previously served to 
>enhance discussion of the national, ethnic, regional, religious, 
>generational and even gender differences have now overtaken issues 
>of national identity as the dominant tensions that film narratives 
>are called upon to dramatise or work through even, or especially, as 
>they comment on the nation-state.
>
>The 'Disunited Nations' symposium invites papers from a range of 
>subjects and disciplines that address this context. Possible related 
>topics include:
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>* the shift away from traditional frameworks of national identity in 
>cinema and film studies
>* film and tensions and differences both within and between nation states
>* postcolonial and/or globalised cinema
>* film and foreign policy and/or contemporary international politics
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>We are especially interested in work on Europe, the Americas and the 
>Middle East, but encourage relevant submissions on cinemas that have 
>received little critical attention.
>
>Abstracts (no more than 300 words) should be emailed by 31 October 
>2006, to the co-organisers: Dr Kate Ince ([log in to unmask]) and 
>Dr Michele Aaron ([log in to unmask])

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