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The British Film Institute, in conjunction with the University of Southampton and the London College of Communication, will be holding a major conference in the summer of 2005 on the work and worldwide cultural influence of Charles Chaplin. This will coincide with the establishment of the BFI’s Charlie Chaplin Research Foundation, which is designed to foster innovative research in relation to Chaplin and his contemporaries. The emphasis will be on dialogue and the bringing together of scholars from a wide range of disciplines for the presentation of papers and symposia to reassess Chaplin’s impact and influence on film and the arts and modern culture. Proposals are invited for papers covering areas of study such as, but not exclusively, film history and aesthetics, archive and restoration, literary and cultural modernism, theatre history, transnational currents of production and reception, and social and cultural history.
We wish to encourage a wide range of approaches and areas of study but as a guide possible areas of focus are:
- Performance History
- Chaplin as Transnational Star
- Chaplin and Sentiment
- Chaplin and Comic Traditions:
- Chaplin History of Film Aesthetics
- Chaplin and Hollywood Industry History:
- Chaplin and the Intellectuals
- History and Uses of Chaplin ‘s Star Image
- Literary History: Chaplin and Modernism/Modernity
- Macro and Cultural Politics:
- Preservation of Chaplin films:
- Chaplin and Music
Papers are expected to be no longer than 20 minutes in length. Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent by post or email attachment no later than February 28, 2005
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