[Discussion] CFP: Cinematic Responses to E.U Expansion (12/20/05; collection)

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From: Zoran Samardzija <zoransamardzija@sbcglobal.net>

Call For Contributions

Cinematic Responses to E.U. Expansion (collection)

This collection seeks to explore how various European films and filmmakers from
Western and East-Central Europe as well as the Balkan states are responding to
the expansion of the E.U. and, more broadly, European history following the
collapse of communism. The collection asks: Is there a totalizing or even
coherent image of Europe that emerges from such films? Moreover, how do we
understand such films in light of the fact that one of the reasons cited for the
Dutch and French rejection of the E.U. constitution is resistance to further
European expansion, in particular the entry of Turkey into Europe?

Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, such topics and texts as:

-- Films that address the possibilities for post-war reconciliation in the
former Yugoslavia

-- Representations of migration and otherness in various recent European films /
cinemas

-- Films that examine the cultural impact of Islam and Muslim migration into
Europe

-- Films that question the relationship between Turkey and Europe

-- Films from the former Eastern-bloc states and the Balkans that explore the
transition from communism to capitalism

-- Films that address the economic and social significance of shifting and
collapsing borders between nations

-- Omnibus films, such as Visions of Europe, or documentaries, such as Die
Mitte, that examine the multiple processes related to European expansion

-- Multiple films from directors such as Fatith Akin or Michael Haneke whose
work consistently engages with any of the above themes



Please e-mail an extended abstract (600-800 words) and cv by December 20,
2005 to:

Zoran Samardzija
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
zs2@uwm.edu




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