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From: Paul Squires <[log in to unmask]>
Hi,
A quick note to let you know that the SOFIA (Study of Film as Internet
Application) project site has been relaunched and has moved from its old
home at the University of North London, to a new location:
http://www.imperica.com/sofia/
The site contains general theoretical information on film, in an
educational context. Although the site has been redesigned, there's still a
lot more to come (some Flash stuff, links pages, new content). There is
also a new forum system available, now self-managing (unlike the old one).
It is divided into books, essays, wanted/employment, and a general
free-for-all.
Anyway, thanks for your time... look forward to any comments you may have.
Cheerio
Paul
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FILM STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS
FSAC/ACEC 2001 Annual Conference
Call for papers, Member-Organized Panels and Joint Panels
Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities
Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec.
May 26-28, 2001
Deadline for Submissions: 15 January, 2001
FSAC/ACEC Conference and Congress Themes:
1)The Role of the Intellectual in Society,
2) Language, Culture and Community,
3) Plagues and Viruses.
The 2001 Conference will adopt the interdisciplinary objectives of the
Congress of Social Sciences and Humanities. Therefore, we especially
encourage proposals for joint panels, as well as proposals for papers,
roundtables and workshops that foreground the diversity of our discipline
and foster relationships with other associations. We encourage you to engage
with the Congress themes. Thus paper and panel topics could include, but are
not limited to, the following:
The Role of Film Scholarship in Canadian Society
The Historiography of Film Studies
Film Studies and Academia
The Future of Film Studies as an Academic Discipline
The Filmmaker as Intellectual
Public Intellectuals and Film
Film and Language
Cinema as Community: the Phenomenon of Film Festivals
Film Culture in Canada
Outside perspectives on Canadian Film Studies
Plagues and Viruses in the films of David Cronenberg
The Film Image as Virus
Artaud, the Plague and Film
More generic topics can also be examined, such as:
National Cinemas
Film Genres
Spectatorship
Gender in Film
Film and the Body.
Only proposals by paid-up members will be considered. Submit abstract
(100-200 words) and a brief rationale for member-organized sessions to:
André Loiselle, President
Film Studies Association of Canada
School for Studies in Art and Culture
Carleton University
1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa,ON K1S 5B6
Phone: 613-520-3786
FAX: 613-520-3575
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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From: Giles Lane <[log in to unmask]>
London, November 2000
Proboscis announces the final issue of COIL journal of the moving image
ISSN 1357-9207 ISBN 1-901540-05-7 Price £11.99
COIL journal of the moving image has consistently challenged the
intersection between critique and representation and is arguably the most
exciting and innovative experimental forum for artists film, video and
digital art of the 1990s.
Edited by Giles Lane Designed by Richard Bonner-Morgan
Contributors include: Artists Projects:
Tina Keane
Nelson Henricks
Tony Hill
Suky Best
Sarah Miles
Texts: Laura Mulvey, Professor of Film, Birkbeck College, University of London
Sylvere Lotringer, editor of Semiotext(e)
Charlie Gere, lecturer, Birkbeck College, University of London
John Latham, artist
Nikos Papastergiadis, Simon Research Fellow, University of Manchester
Nick Norton, fierce sociologist
Gilles Lazare, writer
Nicky Hamlyn, filmmaker
Devin & Marsha Orgeron, writers
Nicky Coutts, writer and artist
Jurgen Harten, former Director, Stadische Kunsthaus Dusseldorf
Adrien Sina, architect
Edwin Carels, curator and lecturer, University of Amsterdam
Miroslaw Rogala, artist
Barbara London, curator MOMA New York
Stuart Morgan, art critic
A.L. Rees, Senior Research Fellow, Royal College of Art
To mark this event we are offering a set of COIL issues (see below) at HALF
THE USUAL PRICE!
SPECIAL SET OF ISSUES 2, 3 , 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9/10
United Kingdom:£30.00 Europe: £35.00 or euro 50
World Airmail: £40.00 or US dollars $60
All prices include post and packing
Send cheques payable to Proboscis to: 2 Ormonde Mansions, 100A Southampton
Row, London WC1B 4BJ, United Kingdom
Fax: +44 207 430 1147 Email: [log in to unmask]
For direct bank to bank transfers please email for details.
For details of contributors, selected essays and projects by artists visit:
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~proboscis/coil9.html
http://www.proboscis.org.uk
Bookshops worldwide may order COIL via Art Books International Ltd.
Telephone: +44 (0) 207 720 1503. Fax: +44 (0) 207 720 3158.
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Reply to: "European Cinema Research Forum"
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UPDATED CALL FOR PAPERS
** Launch of ECRF book series
*** Registration of interest in joining ECRF
Inaugural International Conference
European Cinema Research Forum (ECRF)
Foreign Film?
European Cinema Beyond its Frontiers
will be held
January 27-28th 2001 (Sat/Sun)
University of Wales, Bangor
Keynote Speakers will include:
Professor Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
The Oxford History of World Cinema; co-author: Hollywood and Europe
(Economics, Culture and National Identity, 1945-95 ) and many others
Professor Susan Hayward
Luc Besson; Cinema Studies: the Key Concepts, and many others
Papers are invited on topics such as:
Film and European National/Regional identity;
language and culture in European cinemas;
European Directors in Hollywood;
Cinema and Globalization: European Dimensions;
Contemporary European Film: film style and form in recent European cinema;
'art cinema'/'popular cinema': European cinema as 'non-foreign' cinema;
'minority' cinemas in European nations . . .
Numbers will be limited in order to ensure time for debate and discussion.
Interested parties are urged to send registration form asap.
Closing Date: December 15th 2000
Further details on this inaugural conference can be obtained from:
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School of Modern Languages
[log in to unmask]
Director, Development Centre for the Creative and Performing Arts
University of Wales, Bangor, LL57 2DG
Or from the ECRF at [log in to unmask]
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Call for Papers
Visual Communication is a new interdisciplinary journal being launched in
February 2002 to provide an international forum for the growing body of work
in visual communication. The journal will be edited by Theo van Leeuwen,
Cardiff University, UK, Carey Jewitt, Institute of Education, UK and Ron
Scollon, Georgetown University, USA.
Visual Communication's definition of the visual will be broad and include:
still and moving images, graphic design,…visual phenomena such as fashion,
professional vision, posture and interaction, the built and landscaped
environment and the role of the visual in relation to language, music, sound
and action.
The journal will be interdisciplinary bringing together articles from a
range of disciplines, including: anthropology … communication studies …
discourse studies and semiotics … media and cultural studies … sociology …
disciplines dealing with history, theory and practice of visual design.
Details are available on our website:
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0359.html
For further information about contributing or subscribing to this new
journal please contact:
Jane Makoff, Sage Publications, 6 Bonhill Street, London, EC2A 4PU
Tel: +44 (0)20 7374 0645
Fax: +44 (0)20 7374 8741
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Reply to: "Jeongmee Kim" <[log in to unmask]>
Scope, a fully refereed on-line journal of film studies edited by staff and
postgraduate students within the institute of Film Studies at the University
of Nottingham, is looking for conference reports of about 1000-1500 words to
be included in forthcoming issues. We're seeking contributions on the events
listed below, but we also welcome reports on other relevant conferences in
film, media and cultural studies.
… Hong Kong Culture: The Identity in Its Diversity (10/20-22/00/ Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
… See/Hear: Music and Film (11/9-10/00/ University of Newcastle Upon Tyne,
UK)
… Defining Cult Movies: The cultural Politics of Oppositional Taste
(11/17-19/00/
Broadway Cinema, Nottingham, UK)
… Television: Past, Present and Futures (12/1-3/00/ University of
Queensland's St. Lucia campus, Australia)
… On the beach: Cultural Studies Association of Australia Conference2000
(12/4-6/00/ University of Queensland, Australia)
… 2nd Annual Conference and AGM (1/19-21/01/ University of Loughborough, UK)
… Inaugural International Conference of the European Cinema Research Forum
(1/27-28/01/ University of Wales, UK)
… The Cold War: Cinema, Politics, Military Conflict (3/7-10/0l /The Cold War
Area of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association, New Mexico, USA)
… Violence, Cinema, and American Culture (4/6-7/01/University of
Missouri-St. Louis, USA)
… 2001 Conference British Association for American Studies (4/6-9/01/ Keele
University, UK)
… Film Stars in the Nineties (4/7-8 /01 /University of Sussex, UK)
… Re-Conditioning the 'Queer': Moving-Image Theory and Culture in the Age of
Global Transnationalism(5/24-27/2001/Society for Cinema Studies Conference,
Washington, D.C., USA)
… Forever Godard: An International Conference on the Work of Jean-Luc Godard
(6/21-24/ 01/Tate Modern, London, UK)
Reports, queries and expressions of interest should be sent to Jeongmee Kim,
Conference Reports Editor, [log in to unmask]
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Reply to: Elzbieta Ostrowska <[log in to unmask]>
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CINEMA AND THEATRE OF ANDRZEJ WAJDA
UNIVERSITY OF LODZ, POLAND
25-28 OCTOBER 2001
The conference will address the work of Andrzej Wajda in cinema,
theatre, television and fine art, in both political and cultural contexts.
It will provide a unique opportunity for both scholars and students of film
and theatre from all over the world to meet and discuss Andrzej Wajdaís
oeuvre both formally and informally. The following topics are an initial
proposal:
the relationship between the cinema and theatre of Andrzej Wajda
and world cinema and theatre
Andrzej Wajdaís cinema in relation to debates about national and
auteurist cinema
Andrzej Wajdaís vision of history
socio-politicalthemes and contexts in Andrzej Wajdaís films
Andrzej Wajdaís work in the context of Polish cultural traditions
Andrzej Wajdaís work as a locus for a meeting between art forms
Andrzej Wajdaís style
Andrzej Wajda as a theatre director
AndrzejWajdaís criticism of his work and world art
the reception of Andrzej Wajdaís work in Poland and abroad
A selection of the conference papers will be published by the
Wallflower Press.
The languages of the conference are Polish and English (simultaneous
translations of both languages will be available).
Those wishing to propose a paper, to last approximately 30 minutes,
should submit an abstract (one side of A4) to:
Prof. Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska
Katedra Teorii Literatury Teatru i Filmu
University of Lodz
ul. Sienkiewicza 21
90-114 Lodz
tel/fax : +48 +42 632 04 31
or to:
dr. Elzbieta Ostrowska
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Deadline: February 28th 2001
Further details of the conference will be available in the spring of 2001.
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Reply to: Joanna Zylinska <[log in to unmask]>
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Call for papers
CULTURAL STUDIES: BETWEEN POLITICS AND ETHICS
An International Interdisciplinary Conference
6-8 July 2001
Keynote speakers:
Simon Critchley
Ernesto Laclau
Angela McRobbie
Lola Young
Cultural studies is often defined as a political project. But the
problem of ethics, with rare exceptions, has generally been associated
with disciplines such as philosophy, political theory or
deconstruction-oriented literary theory. One could argue, however, that
cultural studies - in its questioning of inherited traditions and
cultural prejudices and its interest in ëmarginal voicesí - is
intrinsically ethical. In focusing on the interconnections between
ethics and politics in cultural studies, we want to investigate the
duties and responsibilities of cultural studies, as well as delineate
some new ways of practising ëthe politicalí.
For parallel sessions we invite 20 minute papers from a variety of
disciplines and approaches on a range of themes, including:
… Is cultural studies political enough?
… The spectre of Marxism in cultural studies
… New identities, new politics
… Respect for the ëotherí: a postcolonial perspective
… The ethics of everyday life
… Gender, ethics and difference
… The governance of cyberspace
… The politics of literature
… Bioethics and genethics
… Culture and ethics
… Is there a duty in cultural studies?
Please send your proposal before 28 February 2001 to:
Dr Joanna Zylinska & Dr Mark Devenney
Bath Spa University College
School of Historical and Cultural Studies
Newton Park
Bath BA2 9BN
UK
email: [log in to unmask]
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Reply to: dlavery <[log in to unmask]>
Proposals are sought from potential contributors to a collection of essays
on the HBO television series THE SOPRANOS. Although called the most
important work of popular culture of the second half of the 20th Century (by
the NEW YORK TIMES), THE SOPRANOS has not yet secured much scholarly
attention. The only existing book is a collection of articles from the NY
TIMES.
Proposals on all sorts of subjects will be considered, but here are a few
possibilities:
a mise-en-scene analysis | allusions | ancillary texts | character studies
of major and minor characters | David Chase | directors | dreams in THE
SOPRANOS | fan fiction | gender | genre | humor | individual episodes |
individual seasons | intertextuality | language | location and meaning: New
Jersey | marketing THE SOPRANOS | music | postmodernism and THE SOPRANOS |
quality TV and THE SOPRANOS | self-referentiality | story arcs | subplots |
subtexts | the audience of THE SOPRANOS | THE SOPRANOS from a content
analysis perspective | THE SOPRANOS from a cultural studies perspective |
THE SOPRANOS
from a feminist perspective | THE SOPRANOS from a narratological perspective
| THE SOPRANOS from a reader/viewer response perspective | THE SOPRANOS from
a semiotic perspective | THE SOPRANOS as ìfamilyî drama | THE SOPRANOS and
the gangster film | THE SOPRANOS in the media | THE SOPRANOS on the Internet
| THE SOPRANOS and contemporary television | the title sequence | themes |
violence/action | writers (other than Chase).
This collection will be aimed for an educated but not highly-specialized
audience. The essays chosen for the volume will be scholarly but not
obscure, knowledgeable but not erudite. A publisher will be sought among
both mainstream and university presses.
THE SOPRANOS is, of course, a work-in-progress. Season Three will begin in
March, following a complete airing of the first two seasons beginning on
December 3.
ASAP, but by no later than the end of December, please send a 500-750 word
account of the essay you would like to contribute. Include with your
proposal a brief bio of yourself. If your essay is chosen for final
consideration, you will have until the end of June 2001óone month after the
conclusion of Season Three.
David Lavery is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University
and editor/co-editor of collections on TWIN PEAKS (Wayne State University
Press), THE X-FILES (Syracuse University Press), and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE
SLAYER (currently in search of a publisher). Please e-mail him at
[log in to unmask] with questions and proposals.
This project will have a website here:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/sopranos.html where news about the book can be
found.
Dr. David Lavery
English Department
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
615-898-5648
Fax: 615-898-5098
Homepage: http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/
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The Program in Visual and Cultural Studies at the University of
Rochester presents:
THEORY AND PRACTICE
A Graduate Conference
March 16-17, 2001
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Constance Penley, Professor and Chair of the Department of Film
Studies
University of California - Santa Barbara
http://www.film-studies.ucsb.edu/cv/penley/index.htm
Member of the GALA Committee in the project "In The Name of the
Place: Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as
Seen
on Melrose Place"
Co-editor of Camera Obscura: A Journal of Feminism and Film Theory
Author of _NASA/TREK: Popular Science and Sex in America_,
Verso, 1997 (most recently published book) and editor and author
of
numerous books and articles on film studies, feminism,
psycho-analysis and science.
This conference seeks to address the intersections and
transactions
between theory and practice. Departing from a consideration of the
changing role of artistic practice with respect to "academic" and
theoretical activity, the conference aims to weigh the significance of
this reconfiguration as it opens onto other intersections (and
divergences) of theory and practice, such as the political effectiveness
of theory, the mutual permeation of social practices and theories, and
intellectual activity as practice itself.
The conference hopes to offer not only a reflection, but also
possibilities to rethink and reformulate these relations. The topic will
be explored as it is manifest in areas such as film, television, multi-
and mass-media, music, the visual and performing arts, literature,
political activism, and academic experience.
Among the possible themes (but not limited to) are:
- Political engagement
- Artistic production and criticism
- Curatorial practice
- Practical (and impractical) uses of theory
- Inter/multi/transdisciplinarity
- Education as praxis (the academy as a site of theory and practice)
- Artistic concepts and philosophical objects
- Collaboration as theoretical practice
DEADLINE: JANUARY 15, 2001
Submissions should be in abstract form (250-500 words).
All submissions requiring return postage must be accompanied by a
self-addressed enveloped with the correct postage attached. Please
include
e-mail addresses with all submissions whenever possible.
Abstracts and inquiries may be sent via e-mail to
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Printed submissions should be posted to:
Organizing Committee for "Theory and Practice"
c/o Program in Visual and Cultural Studies
424 Morey Hall
University of Rochester
Box 270456
Rochester, NY
14627-0456
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The Program in Visual and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary
graduate program at the University of Rochester. Its focus is visual
culture and critical theory; the Departments of Art and Art History,
English, Film Studies, Anthropology, History, and Modern Languages and
Cultures, as well as the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies,
constitute its academic base. Web site:
http://www.rochester.edu/college/AAH/
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The British Library Newspaper Library has mounted a new webpage
'British and Irish Cinema and Film Periodicals'
at:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/cinema.html
It lists a wide range of 20th-century British and Irish titles
(dailies to monthlies) held by the British Library Newspaper Library
in Colindale, north west London, dating from 1904 to the present.
The collection is one of the finest of its kind and includes many
superbly illustrated magazines. Full sets of celebrated periodicals
such as Picture Show (1919-1960), Picturegoer (1921-1960), and Today's
Cinema (1928-1975) are held. Other titles include: Pictureland
(1924-1939), Our Films (1925-1934), and The Cinemag (1932-1937).
Further information about the services and collections provided by the
British Library Newspaper Library can be found on its website at:
http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/
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ITEM Knowledge Base
Address: http://item.soffolk.ac.uk
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Originating Body/Author: IVAIN (International Visual Arts Information
Network), Suffolk, England.
Jeremy Rees, Founder/Director
Description: An international searchable text and image database detailing
hypermedia publications
and resources about the visual arts, including museum and art gallery image
databases. There is a
subscription fee to access the database.
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