Genres in Transit: Re-thinking Genre in Contemporary Cinemas is a conference to be held on the 20th and 21st April 2012 in Trinity College Dublin with the support of the Trinity Long Room Hub, TCD Association & Trust , the School of Drama, Film and Music, and the Visual and Performing Arts Fund.
Genre filmmaking has been and continues to be a defining feature of cinema worldwide. Film critics and historians have produced a wealth of scholarly work on classical Hollywood and World Cinema genres. Recently, scholars have addressed issues of contemporary genre filmmaking; such research has tended to avoid a comparative approach to Hollywood and national cinemas, treating them largely as distinct systems of production. However, the increasingly globalized and transnational nature of contemporary filmmaking has opened up a space for the development of new approaches to and discourses surrounding film genre theory.
This international conference will explore issues within contemporary genre filmmaking with a particular emphasis on the intersection between conventional modes of production and new transnational practices.
Keynote speakers will be Prof. Barry Langford of the Royal Holloway, University of London, and Dr. Wendy Everett of the University of Bath.
It is our intention to publish an edited volume with articles included in the conference.
Papers are welcomed on topics including (but not limited to):
- The relationship between classical Hollywood and contemporary Hollywood genres
- The relationship between traditional and contemporary generic filmmaking practices in
- European and World Cinemas
- Iterations of classical Hollywood genres within national cinemas
- Independent film and its relationship to genre
- Genre cinema and its interactions with digital media and culture
- Genre theory and history
- Association of specific genres with gender, race and/or ethnicity
- Issues of production, distribution, exhibition, censorship and reception of genre films
- Performance and star persona in genre cinema
Abstracts of 300 words, and a brief biography, should be sent to genresintransit@gmail.com by 23 January, 2012, following this order:
a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract, f) biography.
Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by 6 February, 2012.
Conference organizers:
Silvia Dibeltulo and Ciara Barrett
Film Studies Department,
School of Drama, Film and Music
Texts, Contexts, Cultures Programme
Trinity College Dublin
