UPDATE: European Film Theory (4/20/06; collection)
Notification of accepted abstracts: May 15, 2006
Deadline for completed papers: June 30, 2006
Submissions are sought for an edited collection on European film theory. Possible topics
include, but are not limited to, the following:
- philosophical and/or historical origins of European film theory (e.g. Kantian
idealism, Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, Brecht's theory of epic theatre, the
Frankfurt school's critique of the culture industries, the aesthetic theories of
Kracauer, Arnheim, Balazs, Adorno, Marcuse)
- realism and theatricality in European film theory
- classical vs contemporary European film theory