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, University of Warwick (author
of New Documentary, Bringing Up Daddy: Fatherhood and
Masculinity in Postwar Hollywood)

Organisers:

Daniel Deasy
      

dlsdeasy_at_gmail.com

Aoife Healy
            

aoife_healy_at_yahoo.co.uk

Deborah Mellamphy

dmellamphy_at_yahoo.com

Stefano Odorico

stefano.odorico_at_yahoo.com

Sarah-May O'Sullivan

sarahmayosullivan_at_o2.ie

Nicole Sigl
               

nicole_sigl_at_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_at_yahoo.de and sarahmayosullivan_at_o2.ie
by Wednesday Jan 24th 2007.

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