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This conference aims to determine the influence of German-speaking émigrés on British cinema from the late silent film era to the immediate post-World War Two period, focussing on areas such as the exchange of technology (e.g. sound and colour), professional training and education, cross-cultural interplay, exile, genre, and representation. Papers are invited on all aspects relating to above topic, though we are particularly interested in the following areas:
- Discussion/analysis of individual films made by émigré personnel
- Biographical studies, in the context of wider socio-cultural examination of patterns of migration and exile, and of international film production
- Industrial contexts (production methods; case studies of individual studios, producers)
- Film exile (studies) in the context of exile (studies) in general
- Film exile, World War II, and propaganda
- Trajectories of émigrés after 1945
- Exchanges: émigré film in the context of an in relation to other media and art forms: music, theatre, literature, radio, television
The conference will take place at the University of Southampton (Avenue Campus) and is part of an AHRB-funded three-year research project at the University of Southampton. Please send a 200-300 word proposal of your paper, along with a short biographical note (100 words or less) by 1 January 2005. Further information about the conference will be announced by February 2005.
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