European Film Conference

Call for Papers

"Screening Identities"

2nd Annual Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum

JANUARY 26th and 27th 2002

At the University of Wales, Aberystwyth

Papers of 20-30 minutes are invited on topics such as:

Film and national/regional identity;
language and culture in Europeancinemas;
nostalgia;
film criticism;
European directors in Hollywood;
cinema and globalization: European dimensions;
contemporary European film;
film style and form in European cinema;
'art cinema'/'popular cinema';
gender roles in European cinema;
film movements;
film as propaganda;
documentary films;
European cinema as 'non-foreign' cinema;
minority cinemas in European nations;
stars of European cinema.

A selection of the papers presented will be published in an edited volume.

Please send an abstract with title (300-500 words) by November 1 2001 to:
ECRF2, c/o Mrs Sue Lloyd, Department of European Languages, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Penglais, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, SY23 3DY, UK
Further details can be obtained from Dr Paul Cooke (pac@aber.ac.uk) or Dr Rob Stone (ros@aber.ac.uk)