• British New Wave cinema of the late-1950s and early 1960s
• The work of Ken Loach, David Lean, Lindsay Anderson and other directors
• The British film noir cycle of the late 1940s
• British Asian Cinema
• Heritage Cinema
• Representations and postcolonial critiques of Empire
• War Films of the 1950s
• The Irish Question in British Films
• Sport in British Cinema
• British Films about Youth Culture
• British Gangster Films
• The Hammer Horror Cycle
• Cinema and British Identity
• Comedy (Ealing comedies, the Carry On series, Monty Python, etc.)
• Queer Films
• Films of the Thatcher era
• Swinging London films

Please note that the conference has a “James Bond Franchise and Eurospy” area for proposals dealing with those film-related topics.

Scholars, teachers, graduate students, and others interested in British Cinema are encouraged to participate in this exciting new conference area.

Please submit your presentation title, abstract (200-250 words), and brief current resume by November 16, 2012 to the conference website database which can be accessed at http://conference2013.swtxpca.org