CFP: Australian Cinema (7/14/06; collection)

Call for Papers:
Compulsory Screening: Australian Cinema and the Question of Borders

The Westerly Centre at the University of Western Australia invites
abstracts for an edited collection of essays addressing Australian
cinematic experience in the light recent debates concerning
immigration, border security, refugees and the detention of asylum
seekers. We are interested in how these events have helped
precipitate a new understanding of nation and how this in turn might
have affected cinematic expression, changed the kind of films that
are produced, or made earlier films ring with new resonances.

We invite contributions that elucidate the manner in which Australian
cinema creates or is determined by borders or national boundaries and
which address topics such as:

The immigrant experience in Australian cinema
Films by migrants to Australia
Expatriate film-makers and actors
Protectionist film policy
Internal borders and divisions
Captivity and detention
Imagined communities
Hospitality
Fences, borders, boundaries
International film production in Australia
Subcultures and ethnicity
The "whiteness" of White Australia
Citizenship and the media

Please forward enquiries to Dr. Kieran Dolin, Director of The
Westerly Centre, at kdolin_at_cyllene.uwa.edu.au

Please send abstracts of 500 words together with a brief biography to
The Westerly Centre by 14 July 2006 at westerly_at_cyllene.uwa.edu.au

-- 
Dr. Tanya Dalziell
Senior Lecturer
Equity & Diversity Adviser
English, Communication and Cultural Studies (M202)
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
ph: +61 (08) 6488 2120
fax: +61 (08) 6488 1030
email: tanya.dalziell_at_uwa.edu.au
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