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Cinema et engagement / Contours of Commitment in French Cinema
A two day international conference to be held at Nottingham Trent University
Thursday 12 and Friday 13 September 2002
Guest speakers include Jonathan Buchsbam (Queens, NY), Keith Reader
(Glasgow University) and the celebrated French critic, Jean-Pierre
Jeancolas.
Details available at:
http://languages.ntu.ac.uk/conferences/ce.html
Or contact Martin O'Shaughnessy ([log in to unmask]) or Graeme Hayes
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Dear Writers, Critics and Friends,
Below is the current call for submissions for the third issue of The
Film Journal. Please feel free to contact me with any comments,
questions or suggestions.
Sincerely,
Richard A. Curnutte, Jr.
Editor, The Film Journal
www.thefilmjournal.com
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Call For Submissions
(click here for submission guidelines)
In-Focus Series: Contemporary Gay Cinema
This month's issue will spotlight contemporary gay and lesbian
filmmakers. Issues that are desired are:
How Digital Video has helped/hindered gay and lesbian filmmaking/filmmakers
Perceptions from both the straight and gay communities of what "gay
cinema" does and should mean
Difficulties in getting gay-themed films distributed
Any related essay, review, interview or article is welcomed and encouraged
Special Features
The Future of Cinema: In response to the ongoing lament as to the
viability of contemporary filmmaking, The Film Journal is seeking
essays about directors, writers, actors, et al who show that the
cinema is very much "alive". Also welcome are essays negating the
idea that cinema is dead.
Regular Features
Editorials: If you have a comment, criticism or anything at all to
say regarding Issue 2, please feel free to send them to us.
Essays: This is an open forum for any film-related essay you might
have. See Issue 1 for examples.
Retrospectives: This is another open forum. Write an essay-length
retrospective on any director of your choosing. Please include a
complete filmography, or link to the IMDB page. (some suggestions:
Robert Bresson, Jacques Tati, John Cassavetes, Wong Kar-Wai, Chris
Marker, Abbas Kiarostami, Charles Chaplin, David Lynch, Luis Bunuel,
Akira Kurosawa, Bela Tarr, David Cronenberg, John Ford, Orson Welles,
Buster Keaton, Hou Hsiao-hsien, etc., et al)
Festival/Events: If you are attending a festival, retrospective or
other film event, we are very interested in your coverage.
Reviews - Theatrical: What Time is it There?, Rabbit-Proof Fence, The
Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Warm Water Under a Red Bridge, The
Fast Runner - Atanarjuat, Sunshine State, ABC Africa, Etoiles:
Dancers of the Night, The Diaries Of Vaslav Nijinsky, Road to
Perdition, Reign of Fire, My Wife is an Actress, Last Dance, Never
Again, Me Without You, Men in Black II, Notorious C.H.O., The
Powerfpuff Girls Movie, Songs from the Second Floor, Harvard Man,
Lovely & Amazing, Cherish, The Emperor's New Clothes, Dahmer, Lan Yu,
Eight Legged Freaks, Tadpole, Austin Powers in Goldmember, The Kid
Stays in the Picture, Full Frontal, Signs, The Good Girl, Spy Kids 2,
24 Hour Party People, Biggie and Tupac, Blood Work, XXX, Possession,
Serving Sara, Simone, One Hour Photo, In Praise of Love (any film
released in theaters or premiering at a film festival between now and
the end of August)
Reviews - DVD/VHS: Storytelling, John Q, The Time Machine, Resident
Evil, Collateral Damage, Dragonfly, The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring, In the Bedroom, Birthday Girl, Showtime, We
Were Soldiers, The Sweetest Thing, The Fluffer, Pulp Fiction
Collector's Edition, Jackie Brown Collector's Edition (any
film/collection released on DVD or VHS between now and the end of
June)
Reviews - Books: (any cinema-related publication released between now
and the end of June)
Thank you for your time and consideration, and we look forward to
receiving your submissions for Issue 3 of The Film Journal.
The deadline for submissions is August 30, 2002.
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Subject: Call for Papers: Asian Cinemas
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This is a call for papers for issue #60 of CineAction, an international
film magazine based in Toronto Canada published three times a year. The
focus for this issue will be
primarily the films, film histories, and film industries of Japan and
mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, but may also include those of other
Asian nations whose films are being seen internationally, such as South
Korea and Thailand.
We are interested in a broad range of approaches as well as topics, from
the particular (e.g. films, directors, actors) to the general (e.g.
national characteristics, economic constraints, historical and/or
contemporary directions).
Papers are to be submitted by mail by November 15, 2002 in the form of a
hard copy mailed directly to the editor. Those papers selected for
publication will be subsequently required to be emailed to the editor in
file attachment. It would be appreciated if a brief proposal be
submitted/emailed as early as possible as an indication of intention to
submit.
Please address all queries and submissions to the issue's editor:
Susan Morrison
314 Spadina Road
Toronto On M5R 2V6
Canada
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University of Amsterdam
ASCA
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference
18-20 juni 2003
Accented Cultures
Deterritorialization and Transnationality in the Arts and Media
Accents are distinctive modes of expression. The strong or subtle
modulations of the voice mark characteristics of a region, a class or other
locations. While it is impossible to speak without an accent, not all
accents are standardized or of equal value socially and politically. In
general accents are only noticed once one leaves the home territory; and
this is a reality of many people in today's globalized world. Hamid Naficy
discusses the emergent transnational film movement and film style of exilic
and diasporic filmmakers, which he calls an accented cinema. Accented
cinema is 'simultaneously global and local, and it exists in chaotic
semiautonomous pockets in symbiosis with the dominant and other alternative
cinemas.' (Naficy, 2001: 19)
Inspired by Naficy's work, this conference will extend his understanding of
accented cinema to other media: how do, among others, literature, music,
film and new media bear marks of transnationality and migration? What does
it mean to 'speak' with an accent? How does it relate to the official,
'neutral' accent (be it in language, art, literary traditions, the media or
in certain societies)? How does the accent relate to both home and 'host'
country? What histories and politics are implied by an accent? How is the
double articulation of (non)belonging to two or more different cultures
translated in an accented artistic style? Whose voices are heard and to
whom are they addressed? What are the themes, feelings, memories and places
that are embodied in accented cultural expressions?
By addressing these questions from different disciplines and from different
experiences of (de)territorialization and transnationality, the conference
wants to challenge and contribute to the ongoing debates on multiple
cultural identities in a globalizing society.
Keynote speakers, among others, are Hamid Naficy, Irit Rogoff, Françoise
Lionnet, Rasheed Araeen and Georges van den Abbeele.
Scholars are invited to write a one page proposal about the following
interdisciplinary and 'accented' themes:
1. Places of Transition
2. Longing and Belonging: Home and Exile
3. Adaptation, Appropriation and Resistance
4. Media Strategies
5. Thinking the Interstice
6. The Power of Language
7. Memories of the Future
Two workshops are open for proposals; suggestions for workshops on other
themes related to the conference are also welcome.
Deadline proposals october 1st, 2002. Final paper before april 1st, 2003.
Please note that these deadlines will be strictly adhered to as all of the
papers from each workshop will be circulated before the conference in the
form of a reader. Participants are then asked to read the papers from their
workshop ahead of time and to be prepared to actively take part in the
discussion following the papers. During the conference participants will
have 15 minutes to sum up their work in order to allow for more and
livelier discussion following the presentations. Participants should use at
least part of their allotted 15 minutes to make connections between their
work and that of other presenters from the same workshop. In short,
participants are asked to present ideas and connections, rather than to
'read a paper'.
Please send your proposal to the ASCA office: [log in to unmask]
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From: Debbie Cock <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Visual Communication - next issue!
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Please find below contents information on the second issue of Visual
Communication - if you
would like to receive this information on a regular basis please visit:
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Visual Communication
Volume 01 Issue 02 - Publication Date: 1 June 2002
Article
The map as a kind of talk: Brian Harley and the confabulation of the inner
and outer voice
Denis Wood Raleigh, North Carolina
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab020743.html
Reflections on Practice
Pockets Full of Memories: an interactive museum installation
George Legrady and Timo Honkela University of California
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab023417.html
Article
The move from page to screen: the multimodal reshaping of school English
Carey Jewitt Institute of Education, University of London
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab023418.html
Review
Museal tropes in popular film
Jennifer Fisher Canada
Article
Goffman's Gender Advertisements revisited: combining content analysis
Philip Bell University of New South Wales and Marko Milic University of
Western Sydney
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab020742.html
Review
Gee Vaucher at the Horse Hospital Gallery, London, July 2001
Roger Sabin Central St Martin's College of Art and Design, London, UK
Articles
Who initiates a global flow? Japanese popular culture in Asia
Yoshiko Nakano University of Hong Kong
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab023421.html
Book Reviews
Baldry, A. P. (ed.), Multimodality and Multimediality in the Distance
Learning Age, reviewed by Kay O'Halloran
Emmison, Michael and Philip Smith, Researching the Visual: Images,
Objects, Contexts and Interactions in Social and Cultural Inquiry, reviewed
by
Pedro M. Garcez
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From: Joachim Polzer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: new listserver [kinokultur]
Here just a brief information for the German speaking participants of the
<nettime> listserver that as of today we have opened the [kinokultur]
mailing listserver as a
moderated german language forum on film and cinema history, future
development of cinema, digital cinema, film preservation, media
archiving, cinematic postproduction aspects, news about festivals,
retrospectives, meetings, gatherings and congresses etc.
<nettime> members are welcome to join under
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kinokultur
best regards,
Joachim Polzer
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British Academy Media Release
For immediate release, 1 July 2002
NEW ELECTRONIC RESEARCH TOOL FOR THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
The British Academy is today opening PORTAL, its directory of online
resources for researchers in the humanities and social sciences. The
PORTAL launch marks the Academy's Centenary with a new, modern
service for scholars and researchers.
PORTAL offers scholars easy access to online information about
research resources in all areas of the humanities and social
sciences. PORTAL is intended primarily for post-graduate or
post-doctoral workers, but covers resources of interest to a wider
community.
PORTAL resource sites are selected for their high quality and
potential utility to the academic community, responsible ownership
and up-to-date state.
"This website will be an invaluable aid to scholars at the start of
the Academy's second century," says British Academy Vice-President,
Karen Sp”rck Jones, Professor of Computers and Information at
Cambridge University. "By linking only to high-standard sites that
are accessible without subscription, PORTAL offers its users
directions to resources with substantial content and of continuing
interest, without the nuisance of promotional material or access
constraints".
PORTAL has a simple, convenient user interface, with a range of tools
for searching the directory.
The website is launched on 1 July 2002 and marks a 'next-century'
element to the Academy's Centenary celebrations. It will be exhibited
at an international Centenary conference at the British Museum on 3
July. The launch follows a period of testing and consultation with
the scholarly community. The website is open to all at no charge.
NOTES TO EDITORS
1. PORTAL is located on the British Academy's website:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/portal
2. A full programme for the Academy's Centenary conference can be
found on the Academy's website:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/cent/wed.html If you would like to
attend, please contact Jonathan Breckon at the British Academy,
telephone: 020 7969 5263.
3. PORTAL covers the whole range of subjects which fall within the
Academy's remit, from ancient history and the classics to geography
and psychology. Links to numerous types of resource are included such
as texts of major works, images of artworks and artefacts, datasets,
maps, and dictionaries and encyclopedias.
4. Users are able to access the directory either by browsing by
subject area, using the search tool, or by looking up key words in
PORTAL's subject index. Most of the sites listed in PORTAL are run by
individual academics, research centres, university departments or
government departments and international organisations.
5. The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902,is the
national academy for the humanities and social sciences. It is an
independent learned society which aims, among the disciplines is
promotes, to represent the interests of scholarship nationally and
internationally and to promote understanding of research and
scholarship.
For further press information:
Jonathan Breckon T: 020 7969 5263, M: 07931 560 953, Email:
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From: Vicky Ball <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
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Journalism
Theory, Practice & Criticism
Volume 03 Issue 02 - Publication Date: 1 August 2002
Articles
The primes of our times? An exanimation of the 'power' of visual images
David Domke University of Washington, USA , David Perlmutter Louisiana
State
University, Baton Rouge, USA and Meg Spratt University of Washington,
USA
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab026094.html
<http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab026094.html>
Doing the business? Newspaper reporting of the business of football
Raymond Boyle, William Dinan and Stephen Morrow University of Stirling,
UK
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024598.html
<http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024598.html>
The construction of the public in letters to the editor: Deliberative
democracy and the idiom of insanity
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen Cardiff University, UK
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024599.html
<http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024599.html>
The journalist as moral witness: Michael Ignatieff's pluralistic
philosophy
for a global media culture
Patrick Lee Plaisance Syracuse University, New York, USA
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024597.html
<http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024597.html>
Does education matter? Characteristics of journalists who went to
graduate
school
Tanjev Schultz University of Bremen, Germany
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024600.html
<http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/issue/abstract/ab024600.html>
Book Reviews
Cranberg, Gilbert, Randall Bezanson and John Soloski, Taking Stock:
Journalism and the Publicity Traded Company, reviewed by Maurice Walsh
Law, Ian, Race in the Law, reviewed by John Solomos
Pickering, Michael, Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation,
reviewed
by John Solomos
Scheuer, Jeffrey, The Sound Bite Society: Television and the American
Mind,
reviewed by Nancy Graham Holm
Friedman, Sharon, M., Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers (eds),
Communicating Uncertainty: Media Coverage of New and Controversial
Science,
reviewed by Jill McKenna
Frost, Chris, Reporting for Journalists, reviewed by Bruce Hanlin
Curran, J. (ed.), Media Organisations in Society, reviewed by Paul
Manning
Please visit our website for further details about this journal
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Please contact me if there are any queries:
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Dear Colleagues
I am writing to ask if you would be interested and willing to help
with a small research project for which I have just received a little
bit of funding from the Art, Design & Communication Learning and
Teaching Subject Network. The aim of the project is to explore ways
of handling the old problem of the clash which is so often
experienced between students' private experiences of and involvements
with films, and the kinds of academic questioning and analysis which
we seek to involve them in, at University. With this letter you will
find a short questionnaire, which I would greatly appreciate you or
an appropriate colleague(s) completing for us.
This is a problem which we have regularly experienced over many
years, as (we know) have many others, and we are looking for ways in
which it can be effectively managed and the two kinds of knowledge
set into a productive relationship with each other. It is obviously
important that, for the sake of contrast, the way we do this
experimentally here is different from any attention you give to it
so that we can investigate what differences, if any, are introduced
by the 'experimental condition'. For that reason, I can't here lay
out how exactly we will be attempting this. However, once the
research is completed, we have committed ourselves in our application
to the LTSN both to publish the methods we have tried out, and to
share all the results in detail with the collaborating institutions.
We are in fact looking for three institutions in all whose first year
intake is large enough to generate statistics which could be compared
with our own (we expect to have over 200 students on our first year
Film course, but are not necessarily assuming numbers as large as
this, on yours). The project, which will last one year, would
involve a small amount of cooperation on your part in encouraging
students on your first year Film course, to fill in a pretty simple
web-based questionnaire, whose web address we would supply to you.
We would need them to complete two questionnaires, one at the
beginning of the year, the other at the end. And obviously it
matters to us to get as high a rate of returns as possible, for the
sake of maximum validity.
This is honestly all we would ask of you, other than asking if we
could swap copies of the details of our respective first year Film
courses, so that we could look at the ways in which your first year
curriculum addresses, if at all, this issue of what we have called
'vernacular involvements' in film. No costs will fall to you,
except the (hopefully small) time-cost of explaining to your students
what this is all about (we would send a few briefing notes to help
with this), and encouraging them to complete the questionnaires.
I am obviously keen to get arrangements set up as soon as possible,
and I would very much appreciate an early reply to this letter. I
will be happy to discuss the idea further with you, if you want more
information my email is below.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Martin Barker
Professor of Film & Television Studies
Martin Barker <[log in to unmask]>
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From: Molly McGehee <[log in to unmask]>
Call for Submissions
Emory University
The Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts
Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
March 28-30, 2003
Critical Moments: Re-Membering Community & Self
Historically and culturally, individuals and
collectives have experienced certain events and
transitions as particularly momentous,
destructive, or re-invigorating ?critical
moments.? Why are some events and transitions
deemed more significant than others? How have
local and international critical moments such as
genocide, revolution, protest, war, colonialism,
immigration waves, and industrial, technological
and labor developments affected individual and
group identities? What formats, frameworks or
trajectories are there for the re-membering?that
is, the reassembling of self and community, after
such life-changing events and transitions? Can we
mark major paradigmatic shifts in theory and
activism in terms of such critical moments?
We are soliciting papers, presentations, panels,
and creative projects that address the issue of
re-membering self and community in the face of or
in response to ?critical moments,? in the past or
present. Such projects can be focused on local or
global events and perspectives, and may address
?critical moments? on international, national,
communal, or personal levels. We welcome
presentations rooted within a particular
discipline or interdisciplinary in nature.
Some general and specific topics that might be
addressed:
? Interweavings and Creation of Memory, Culture
and History
? Local and Global Perspectives on Cultural
Identity and Memory
? Diaspora, Displacement and Identity
? Cultural Continuity and Change
? Narrative & Representation
? Reconciliation
? Trauma and Grief
? Activism (developments of coalitions, groups,
or organizations in response to critical moments)
? Patriotism in Moments of Change
? Space, Place, Landscape, Architecture
? The Role of Economics
? The Role of the Media (the press, TV, radio,
film, and the Internet)
? Responses within the Academy and Public
Scholarship
In addition to traditional academic paper
presentations and panels, we strongly encourage
submissions in the forms of documentaries, video,
photography, and other visual installations,
along with spoken word and/or poetic projects and
performances.
This event takes place during the 50th
Anniversary of The Graduate Institute of the
Liberal Arts (ILA) at Emory University. The ILA
is Emory University's institutional center for
comparative and interdisciplinary studies across
the social sciences and humanities. The Institute
is one of the oldest interdisciplinary programs
in the United States. Since the 1950s, the ILA
has offered graduate students the opportunity to
pursue doctoral work in the study of culture and
society from historical, ethnographic and
comparative perspectives. For more information,
go to: http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ILA/ila.html.
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Proposals should be 1-2 pages, single-spaced
(max. 600 words), should include the title of the
presentation, and should outline how the project
will address the conference topics. If submitting
a panel, please include the title of the panel,
the names of the participants, individual project
or paper titles, and brief descriptions of each
project or paper. Please also include what
technical support you may need and the format
(paper, panel, installation, etc.) to which you
will adhere.
Proposals may be submitted one of two ways:
1) via email to
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written documents in MS WORD. Please format
visual art submissions in screen-sized jpg images
with a resolution of at least 300 dpi and no more
than 600 dpi. For video submissions, please send
small quicktime video clips. For audio clips,
please send .wav or MP3 files.
2) by the postal service- send three copies to:
Critical Moments Conference, The Graduate
Institute of the Liberal Arts, Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia 30322. Proposals should be
postmarked or emailed no later than October 1,
2002.
Direct questions via email to:
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Visit our website at:
http://www.emory.edu/COLLEGE/ila/events/criticalmoments/index.html
(will be up and running by August 1, 2002)
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Molly McGehee
(404)249-8899
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