Call for Papers

European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF)
Annual Conference
2005

University of Leeds
1-3 July 2005

This year's annual ECRF conference is sponsored by a British Academy
Networks Project, 'Screening Identities: Reconfiguring Identity
Politics in Contemporary European Cinema'

Papers are invited on topics such as:

The 'star system' in Europe;
the role of the festival and the changing shape of the European distribution network;
cinema funding and the EU;
audiences for European cinema?
Film and European national/regional identity;
language and culture in European cinemas;
European 'dialogues' with Hollywood;
European cinema as World cinema?;
European cinema and its eastern and southern neighbours;
cinema and Globalization: European dimensions;
contemporary European film: film style and form;
'art cinema'/'popular cinema';
'minority' cinemas in European nations;
images of Europe in World cinemas

Please submit a brief (2-300 word) abstract by 7 February 2005 to Paul Cooke (p.cooke@leeds.ac.uk) or Danielle Hipkins (d.e.hipkins@leeds.ac.uk)