[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Gender and National Identity in Film and Television (grad & new scholars) (UK) (2/25/06; 6/23/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

From: S.Cobb@uea.ac.uk

Gender and National Identity in Film and Television
A Postgraduate One-day Conference
The University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK

**Conference date: Friday, June 23, 2006

This conference seeks postgraduates and new scholars researching, 
historicizing,
and theorizing the intersection of gender and nation in film and 
television.
The intersection of these two discourses is our focus but we are 
interested also
in papers that consider the relationship of gender and nation within the 
frame
of other film and television studies topics. Essays with an 
interdisciplinary
framework are welcome. Topics may include (but are not limited to) the
following:

How do we quantify or theorize transnational reception of the gendered text?
The �unruly� ethnic/sexual/class gender identity in 
fictions of
national
identity
The conjunction of gender and class in the configuration/presentation of a
national identity
How do ideas of nationhood inscribe themselves onto the gendered body of the
citizen?
How do representations of the national and gender co-opt or elide the
subaltern/subcultural?
How does the subaltern/subcultural (particularly as it is inflected by 
gender
and sexuality) use and/or pose as the national?
How is the post-national gendered?
The transmediation of gender and the nation between film and television (or
between film/tv and other types of texts)
Hollywood as the �unmarked� national cinema and its 
relationship
with gender
Hollywood and the representation of the national and gendered
�other�
Gender and the authorship or production of the national film and 
television text
Gender, genre and national identity
The politics of feminism in the national context and the national 
politics of
feminism
The centrality of the family in national identity and the construction of
gendered kinship roles

Other key words:
Post-colonialism, Immigration, Diaspora, (imagined) Community, Expatriates,
History/Memory, Language, Borders/ frontiers, Globalization, Femininity,
Masculinity, Performativity, Sexuality, The Body, Public/Private


Featured speaker TBA

Additional speakers:
Professor Andrew Higson
Professor Yvonne Tasker

Please email 250 word abstracts with your name and affiliation to both
Shelley Cobb (s.cobb@uea.ac.uk) and Sarah Godfrey (s.godgrey@uea.ac.uk) by
February 25, 2006.  Please feel free to email with inquiries.



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