Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference
Atlanta, Georgia - March 30-April 3, 2016

Movement, in film and moving image media, is first and foremost the movement of images and of elements within these images. It is, for instance, the movement of the human or animal figure that Marey or Muybridge so famously recorded onto the photographic plate, the movement of the film strip that brings to life otherwise static images, or the movement of the camera that creates depth within the two-dimensional image on screen.

It is our pleasure to inform you that the deadline for manuscript submission for the 8th issue of Reči: a Journal of Language, Literature and Culture has been extended to 31 July 2015. All submissions should be sent as e-mail attachments to reci@alfa.edu.rs. The journal welcomes contributions in all research areas pertaining to language, literature and culture. Manuscripts should be prepared according to the instructions given at http://fsj.edu.rs/images/instructions-for-contributors.pdf.

This panel seeks papers that consider the many ways in which contemporary Francophone authors and filmmakers represent the performance of gender and/or sexuality within their work. How do these texts reveal, challenge, and resist dominant domestic and hexagonal conceptualizations of either element or both? For the purposes of this panel, and given the numerous possible conceptualizations of performance, we seek to examine the various and varied ways performance is employed as an analytic. As such, performance dialogues with textual production, modes of reading, social and cultural construction, discourses of power, and so on.

This roundtable* session seeks to explore how we use complex, allusive texts such as J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello in the classroom, and how such classroom practice can inform our work as literary critics.

From artist Hans Bellmer's distorted dolls, to Rupert Brooke's "dust" in a "corner of a foreign field," to Virginia Woolf's "orts, scraps, and fragments," bodies – textual, phenomenological, cultural, political, and physical – seem to fall to pieces in modernism. How can we conceptualize the modern body in light of its affective and ecological surrounds?