The Institute of Audio-Visual Arts at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (Web)

Time: 23.-25.04.2020
Venue: Institute of Audio-Visual Arts in Cracow
Proposals by: 15.01.2020

The international academic workshop is focusing on women’s cinema in the GDR and Poland from the end of the World War II in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The organizers invite proposals from researchers and practitioners working in the following fields: history and theory of film, television and other audiovisual media; production studies; film and literary genre theory; gender studies; queer theory; cultural studies; social studies; philosophy; history of Central and Eastern Europe.

The workshop aims to encourage reflection on the position of women in Polish and East German socialist film industries and film cultures. The goal of the workshop is not only to highlight examples of film- and media-related work by women, but also to expand existing methodological approaches as well as to develop new comparative and transnational modes of evaluating Central and Eastern European woman’s film-making in its various sociopolitical, ideological and aesthetic dimensions.

Possible topics should address one of the following issues:

1. Women’s professional strategies and creative practices in popular entertainment cinema: Individual artistic choices of topics, genres, and styles / Narrating women’s issues through conventional narrative structures as well as visions of femininity, family and motherhood, etc. / Models of womanhood, constructions of female identity in relation to dominant cinematic, cultural or ideological patterns, national traditions (e.g. Polish romanticism, Heimat), and propaganda policies in Poland and the GDR. Read more … (PDF)