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CFP: A Cinema of Love. A Cinema of Hate. The Post-Romance in
Contemporary Film.
Editors: Antje Ascheid (University of Georgia) and Nina Martin (Emory
University)
(cross-posted to filmatpenn server) Hello, and I hope you had a restful hol=
iday season. My name is Daniel Smith-Rowsey and I'm the new Film Reviews E=
ditor for Scope Magazine. My experience includes a year as the Book Review=
s Editor for Film International (www.filmint.nu). I am replacing Anthony M=
cKenna at this position, so from now on please direct all film review corre=
spondence to me.
Film I Panel of the Midwest Modern Language Association:
Panel Title: Film Genre and Criticism
This panel will consider film's capacity to revisit and revise genre in =
a critical fashion. How do genre forms and conventions inhibit or =
enhance a film's critical potential? What does a film gain by combining =
and redefining genres and subgenres? Abstracts for this panel should =
explore the interconnections between film genre and criticism through =
analyses that perform critical redefinitions themselves.=20
Some possible topics to consider include:
-the connections between genre formations and questions of nationality, =
culture, class, race, and gender
The deadline submission date has changed to February 15, 2006.
Proposals, abstracts and papers in Religion and Popular Culture are asked
for Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/Ameerican Culture Association Oct. 27-28 2006.
Particularly interested in papers on Mel Gibson's The Passion, the Left Behind
Series by Tim LaHaye, and the conservative religious critique of modern
culture as well as responses to that critique. Contact Richard Currie at
RCu8598882_at_aol.com or currie @postbox. csi. cuny. edu.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 12 January 2006
M/C - Media and Culture
http://www.media-culture.org.au/
is calling for contributors to the 'collaborate' issue of
M/C Journal
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/
M/C Journal is looking for new contributors. M/C is a crossover journal
between the popular and the academic, and a blind- and peer-reviewed
journal.
Popular Culture Section:
The Accidental Detective/Detection by Accident
Creative Translation: Film Adaptation
(dis)junctions: lost in translation
April 7-8, 2006
University of California, Riverside
This panel will consist of papers discussing various concerns of film adaptations. What problems arise when adapting a work of literature to a screenplay? How do various adaptations of the same work use the primary text differently in their adaptations? What role does fidelity play in screenplay adaptation? What problems in auteur/authorship arise in screenplay adaptation? Etc.
CFP: "Blame Canada"? Queer Canadian Cinema.
Special Session Proposal
MLA 2006, Philadelphia
Papers exploring extra-ordinary desires, refractory subjectivities, unruly
narratives, curious genre
crossings, subversive genders and sexualities, or other queer provocations
in Canadian feature films.
1-page abstracts by 15 March 2006 to Julia Mendenhall (
julia.mendenhall_at_utoronto.ca).
Julia A. Mendenhall
Temple University, English
juliam_at_temple.edu
University of Toronto, Cinema Studies
julia.mendenhall_at_utoronto.ca
Call for Papers:
For a collection of essays and reflections on the Annie Proulx story and/or the
Ang Lee film.
Please send 300-500 word abstracts (or questions) to:
William Handley <handley_at_usc.edu>
or
Jesse Matz <matzj_at_kenyon.edu>
Deadline: March 31, 2006
FACS Literary Journal
Florida Atlantic University Comparative Studies=20
=20
Call for Papers: Catastrophe and Representation
=20
Images of catastrophe increasingly assault us through the media. The =
world is reeling from the effects of war, natural disasters, famine, and =
disease. Violence - natural and unnatural - has become a standard motif =
in contemporary storytelling, cultural documentation and sociopolitical =
reportage. How, then, is such representation captured and =
characterized? What is being said and unsaid, and why? Is catastrophe a =
comparative experience?
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The Media & Literature discussion group is arranging the following session for the MLA meeting in Philadelphia, December 2006:
"Reading Code"
Papers on the aesthetics, politics, and poetics of code; machine translation; relations between natural languages & programming languages; codework; protocols; genetic code and biomedia; operational text.
Abstracts and brief CVs by March 17 to Rita Raley <raley at english.ucsb.edu>.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: January 20
Updated website: http://www.communicationincrisis.org/
Communication in Crisis
Conference hosted by the Graduate Program in Communication
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
March 31 - April 1, 2006
Keynote Speaker: Mark Crispin Miller (New York University)
CONFRONTING DANGER Update: Please note that we have extended the date
for proposal submittals to January 15th.
Call for Papers:
The graduate students in the Department of German, Scandinavian & Dutch
of
the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are pleased to announce the
upcoming conference, "Confronting Danger," which will take place April
6-9,
2006.
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UPDATE: Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes - New Adjunct Workshop and Web Site
Deadline: January 20th, 2006
If you could, please post this update concerning "Emerging Spaces, Transforming Scapes," the Intersections Graduate Student Creative Conference 2006, in Toronto:
In association with the Toronto Universities Policy Discussion Group (TUPDiG) a new Adjunct Workshop and Web Site have been developed. For more information concerning the workshop and the conference please see the details that follow below, or please check the web site at the following URL:
Class, Reportage and War
The MLA Division on Non-fiction Prose, Excluding Auto-biography is hosting a
panel on class, reportage and war that is designed to plumb the class
underpinnings of supposedly factual reporting. Whether in a straight news
story, a feature article or a longer non-fiction piece, for years reporters
have made their journalistic reputations on their war correspondence. These
reports, like other cultural texts in society, are larded with class-based
ideologies that say much about power and social organization. Papers for
this panel may focus on a writer, a piece or a publication. It may seek
comparisons between a distant war and the current war in Iraq or a
CALL FOR PAPERS: EnterText Volume 6 number 2
Wuxia Fictions: Chinese Martial Arts in Film, Literature and Beyond
Guest Editor: Leon Hunt, Film and TV Studies, Brunel University
Submissions for this edition are invited by 1 May 2006. With the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero and House of Flying Daggers, the wuxia (Martial Chivalry/Martial Arts) genre has attracted a new wave of critical attention. This issue seeks to examine wuxia fictions in a range of contexts (national, regional, transnational) and across a range of media. Topics might include:
· developments in and aesthetics of fight choreography
· wuxia and authorship in literature and film
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Konigsberg Review
www.konigsbergreview.com
(dis)junctions: lost in translation
April 7-8, 2006
University of California, Riverside
(dis)junctions: lost in translation
April 7-8, 2006
This panel consists of all topics surrounding Alfred Hitchcock and his films
and the effects of those films on movie-making since the sixties. Topics
include but are not limited to
1.containment culture and sixties cinema
2.gender bending
3.reception studies
4.changes in film theory/perceptions of film because of Hitchcock's work
5.parodies of Hitchcock, allusions to Hitchcock in film
6.use of soundtrack
7.Hitchcock and film noir
Please send 250-300 word abstracts to sharon.tohline_at_gmail.com by February
10, 2006. Please include any requests for media (DVD players, laptop
hookups, etc.).
Papers or other non-traditional presentations sought
for a panel at the American Studies Association
conference in Oakland, Ca, October 12-15, 2006.
How is the American experience of World War I
represented in film? This central question might be
taken up in American films, or by looking at films
from other nations that portray Americans.
Please send a 1-2 page abstract and a 1 p cv by email
to Pearl James: pearl.james_at_aya.yale.edu
Send by January 20th, 2006.
UPDATE: Submission extension deadline January 30
Call for Papers in Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Film and Music
"(En)compass(ing) Language: Interplay Within English Studies"
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
March 31st through April 1st
Sponsored by: Texas Tech University's Graduate English Society
Co-Chairs: Brandon Hernsberger and Elizabeth Porter
Address: GES Conference
Texas Tech University
Department of English, Box 43091
Lubbock, Texas 79409-3091
Call for Papers: Media and Deviancy Anthology
Announcement and Call for Papers
The Lebowski Cult: An Academic Symposium
28-29 September 2006
Louisville, Kentucky
The aim of this small symposium is to invent a critical program equal to the task of interpreting The Big Lebowski (1998) and addressing the Lebowski cult that has quickly grown in its wake, both the legions of more or less public fans as well as the cultural politics, resonances, and after-affects of their fanaticism. The 5th Annual Lebowski Fest (http://www.lebowskifest.com/fests.asp) scheduled to follow the symposium, will be included in the conference registration.
Realism in European Film Theory and Cinema (2/20/06; collection)
"Another Slapstick Symposium"
A film conference on American slapstick comedy in the silent era, =
13th-14th May, 2006 organized by BLASA (Belgium Luxembourg American =
Studies Association) and VDFC (Flemish Council for Film Culture)=20
To be held at the Cin=E9math=E8que Royale, Brussels, Belgium
Another Slapstick Symposium sets out to revisit and rethink some of the =
themes and ideas of the original =91Slapstick Symposium=92 organized by =
Eileen Bowser at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985. The conference will =
focus on four broad contexts:
1) slapstick comedy and early film style
2) studios and audiences
3) comedy stars/acting
4) mechanics of the gag and the culture of modernity
American Studies Association conference
October 12 - 15, 2006
Oakland, CA
Advertising in Transnational Context
In response to the ASA 2006 conference theme, we will propose a panel on
nineteenth-century advertising in its transnational contexts.
We are looking for papers dealing with issues such as:
Call For Contributions
Cinematic Responses to E.U. Expansion (collection)
(DEADLINE EXTENDED: 1/10/06)
Apologies for cross-postings.
We are preparing our second volume on fantasy fiction (to be published in Poland or by Peter Lang) but apart from papers on books we have decided to solicit papers on anime, animated movies (Shrek, Monsters and Co., etc.) or feature films (e.g. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardobe) that would stress
their ethical, spiritual or educational values for young audiences. The articles
should be 6,000 words, in MLA. We would welcome abstracts and short
biographical notes first. The deadline for the articles is the end of
January.
Gender and National Identity in Film and Television: A Postgraduate
One-day Conference
The University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK **Conference date: Friday, June
23, 2006
This conference seeks postgraduates and new scholars researching,
historicizing, and theorizing the intersection of gender and nation in
film and television. The intersection of these two discourses is our
focus but we are interested also in papers that consider the relationship
of gender and nation within the frame of other film and television studies
topics. Essays with an interdisciplinary framework are welcome. Topics
may include (but are not limited to) the following: