CFP: Russia on Screen (Identity and Appropriation)

[Jeremy Hicks]

CFP: Russia on Screen (Identity and Appropriation)

Inter-disciplinary Perspectives on Russia and Cinema

Queen Mary, University of London

Saturday 10th May 2008

Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be emailed to 
russiaonscreen at hotmail.co.uk to arrive by January 1st 2008.

As Andrei Tarkovsky’s Ivan’s Childhood won the 1962 Golden Lion in Venice, 
>From Russia with Love was filling the cinemas of the Western world. While 
Russian films have won a total of four Oscars in the history of the award, 
David Lean’s 1965 Doctor Zhivago alone won five, and Warren Beatty’s Reds 
three. 
Although in the hundred years of its existence, from the silent days onwards 
Russia has had a distinct and innovative cinema, foreign audiences have 
received their most influential images of Russia and ‘Russianness’ from 
Hollywood through non-Russian actors. 
The purpose of this conference is to explore the tensions between Russian 
cinema’s own explorations of identity and more popularly consumed 
representations of Russians and ‘Russianness’ in Western cinema. 

Abstracts for papers are requested on the theme of images of Russianness in 
any area of Film Studies, including those working across disciplines, for 
example in comparative literature, music, history and gender studies.

Possible subjects for papers include:

Russian History on Screen
Russian Literature on Screen
Reception of Russian Film Abroad
Images of Russian masculinity and femininity
Russian filmmakers and filmmakingRepresentation of Crime, violence and the 
Mafia
Russian Music and Dance in Film
Depictions of Religion and religiosity

The conference will be introduced by Dr Jeremy Hicks, QMUL, author of Dziga 
Vertov: Defining Documentary Film.

The keynote speakers will be Professor James Chapman of the University of 
Leicester (author of Licence To Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond 
Films) and Professor Julian Graffy of SEES-UCL, prominent historian of Russian 
cinema.


For further details, please contact: Lucy Bolton and Miranda Shaw
 (Queen Mary, University of London),

 at russiaonscreen at hotmail.co.uk

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