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From: Billy Budd Vermillion <[log in to unmask]>

The Velvet Light Trap
A Critical Journal of Film & Television
Number 54, Fall 2004

INNOVATION AND EXPERIMENTATION

  From the cinema’s creation as a combination of pre-existing technologies
to its conflicted relationship with media convergence, from scanning disks
to the satellite age, the history of visual media has been marked by
innovation and experimentation. Some experiments have developed into
mainstream norms, some have failed, and some reappear intermittently as
avant-garde practices. Today, producers, distributors, exhibitors, and
audiences engage in such a wide array of new practices that media scholars
struggle to keep apace.

The Velvet Light Trap invites papers exploring questions about innovation
and experimentation as part of audio-visual culture and practice from both
contemporary and historical perspectives. In addition to papers focused on
technology, we seek papers that examine innovation and experimentation in
such areas as style, format, genre, promotion, distribution, exhibition,
and reception, as well as papers that investigate innovation and
experimentation as concepts or processes.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

·       new formats (e.g., widescreen film, sound film, video, HDTV)

·       obsolete formats (e.g., video discs, laser discs, VHS?, 8mm)

·       new technology, new techniques (e.g., the impact of dollies,
cranes, new film stocks)

·       new technologies as amateur technologies (e.g., home movies, web
cams)

·       digital filmmaking (e.g., Dogme 95, InDigEnt, WETA Digital, ILM)

·       special effects (e.g., MASSIVE, digital backgrounds/extras)

·       cross-pollination (e.g., video games and cinema, the Internet and
television)

·       innovation and imitation (e.g., Hong Kong’s influence on American
action films, French New Wave and American cinema in the 1960s and 1970s,
MTV style)

·       new genres/generic innovation (e.g., experimental documentary,
anti-Westerns, splatter films)


·       experiments in film and television form and narrative (e.g., Soviet
Montage, Expanded Cinema, Ernie Kovacs, Ally McBeal, 24, Boomtown)

·       video (and) art (e.g., Matthew Barney, Nam Jun Paik, Yvonne Rainer,
Bill Viola)

·       flops, failures, and false starts (e.g., early experiments in
sound/color/widescreen, Smell-o-Vision, Cop Rock, Freaks and Geeks)

·       hotbeds of innovation (e.g., Sundance, Cahiers du cinema, New York
in the 1960s, Northern California in the 1970s)

·       laboratories of innovation (e.g., sports programming, commercials,
genres)

·       innovations in the news (e.g., war and the news, cable news
battles, nude news)

·       competition and innovation (e.g., development of sound, reality TV)

·       innovations in distribution (e.g., satellites, digital
broadcasting, straight-to-video, webcasting)

·       innovation/experimentation in exhibition (e.g., Rose Hobart, The
Exploding Plastic Inevitable, television reruns)

·       innovative audiences (e.g., film clubs, fan video, TV drinking
games, The Rocky Horror Picture Show phenomenon)



Papers should be approximately 7500 words long (roughly 20-25 pages
double-spaced) plus bibliography and endnotes in MLA style. Please submit
three copies of the paper, plus a one-page abstract with each copy, in a
format suitable to be sent to a reader anonymously. Papers should be
accompanied by a cover page which includes the authors name and contact
information. All submissions will be refereed by the journal’s Editorial
Advisory Board.

For more information, contact Eija Niskanen ([log in to unmask],
608-456-5998), Philip Sewell ([log in to unmask], 608-663-2964), or Billy
Vermillion ([log in to unmask], 608-260-0363). Submissions are due
October 1, 2003, and should be sent to:

The Velvet Light Trap
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Communication Arts
821 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin, USA 53706-1497



The Velvet Light Trap is an academic, peer-reviewed journal of film and
television studies. The journal is published biannually in March and
September by The University of Texas Press.


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From: "Charles J. Stivale" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Animations (of Deleuze and Guattari)

Just out:

Animations [of Deleuze and Guattari]
edited by Jennifer Daryl Slack
Peter Lang, 2003

What can you do with philosophy? The essays in this collection, written
by prominent theorists in cultural studies, demonstrate that the work of
philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari can dramatically enrich our
understanding of everyday life. Each contributor, using a variety of
concepts from the writings of Deleuze and Guattari, animates (engages,
enlivens, and illuminates) some aspect of cultural life.

Contents:
Lawrence Grossberg, "Animations, Articulations, and Becomings: An
Introduction
Jennifer Daryl Slack, "Everyday Matrix: Becoming Adolescence"
Charles J. Stivale, "Feeling the Event: Spaces of Affects and the Cajun
Dance Arena"
Patty Sotirin, "Suckling Up to the BwO"
Gregory J. Seigworth, "Fashioning a Stave, or, Singing Life"
J. Macgregor Wise, "Home: Territory and Identity"
Stephen B. Wiley, "Nation as Transnational Assemblage: Three Moments in
Chilean Media History"
Petrus de Kock, "The Minor Literature of Breyten Breytenbach"
Christa Albrecht-Crane and Jennifer Daryl Slack, "Toward a Pedagogy of
Affect"

Charles J. Stivale, Interim Chair
Dept. of Art & Art History
Wayne State University
150 Community Arts Building
Detroit, MI 48202
Office: 313-577-2980
Fax: 313-577-3491
&
Professor of French
Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures
487 Manoogian Hall
Office: 313-577-0970
Fax: 313-577-6243
[log in to unmask]
http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/CStivale/index.html


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From:    Grahame Weinbren <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: MFJ 39/40
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Millennium Film Journal 39/40 "Hidden Currents" is out. It includes
Barbara Lattanzi's rethinking of Hollis Frampton's CRITICAL MASS as a
software applet, and Chris Hill's discussion of the project; Scott
MacDonald's interview with Peggy Ahwesh and Brian Frye's interview
with John Smith; Jackie Hatfield's analysis of the biases of
avant-garde film histories; plus much more. The full table of
contents is at http://mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ39/MFJ39TOC.html

Grahame Weinbren


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From: Jeff Gates <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: McLuhan: Live and in Real Time

Watching the war on television I am simultaneously "there" and "here." In
the 1960s Marshall McLuhan said the media tools we create are extensions
of our bodies. After revisiting his work this week I can see why so many
are confused by the images and reports from the Iraqi front.

Take a look at the latest Life Outtacontext, "McLuhan: Live and In Real
Time."

URL: http://life.outtacontext.com

Jeff Gates
Outtacontext.com

Life Outtacontext: Good Writing at a Fraction of the Cost!
  http://life.outtacontext.com


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From: [log in to unmask] (Jeffrey K. Ruoff)

Please see below the call for proposals for a colloquium at the
Université de Provence on "Voyage et cinéma," Nov. 6-8, 2003.  I am the
U.S. correspondent for this conference.

The official language of the colloquium is French.  Scholars based in
North America interested in submitting a proposal should contact me
first.

Where appropriate, please forward this announcement to others.

Jeffrey Ruoff

Film and Television Studies
HB6194, Wilson Hall
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Tel: (603) 646-1553
Fax: (603) 646-3848
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Http: www.dartmouth.edu/~jruoff


Colloque

Voyage et cinéma

Aix-en-Provence, 6, 7, 8 Novembre 2003.

Appel à communications

Le L.E.S.I. (Laboratoire d'etude de sémiologie de l'image) de
l'Université de Provence (en collaboration avec Cinéma en lumière)
organise un colloque intitulé Voyage et cinéma  qui se tiendra à
Aix-en-Provence les 6, 7 et 8 Novembre 2003.
Si l'on a beaucoup écrit sur la littérature et le voyage, la place
considérable que tient le voyage dans la cinématographie a été peu
interrogée. Or, qu'on se souvienne des opérateurs Lumière parcourant le
monde  ou de Méliès envoyant ses héros  sur la lune ou  dans
l'impossible, dès l'origine  le cinéma a eu partie liée avec le voyage.
Il n'a jamais cessé depuis.
Le colloque a donc pour ambition de s'interroger sur la diversité et la
complexité à la fois narrative, thématique et stylistique de la
représentation filmique du voyage.
Pour parcourir ce territoire, quatre pistes pourraient être empruntées
: les valeurs et les imaginaires du voyage, ses figures, son lien avec
le voyage intérieur et avec les genres filmiques.

Imaginaires et valeurs du voyage
Pourquoi entreprend-on un voyage et quels imaginaires nourrissent ceux
qui se jettent sur les routes, par les mers,  ou sur les chemins
intérieurs ?  Contrainte et nécessité, exil ou fuite, hasard ou
occasion, besoin d'échapper à soi-même ou d'atteindre un rêve, du  plus
matériel au plus spirituel....? Le voyage se nourrit d'imaginaires
complexes : rêves, transgression, conquête intérieure, nouvelle
vie...Il met en jeu des motivations et des expériences fortes : la
rupture, la perte, le rêve d'une vie meilleure, le pèlerinage, le
retour au pays natal ou aux origines, le franchissement, l'échappée
belle, l'errance ou le lâchez tout, en même temps qu'elles puisent à
des valeurs trouvées ou retrouvées : l'instant rendu à sa pureté aussi
bien que l'épaisseur du temps,  la disponibilité aux autres et à ce qui
advient aussi bien qu'à l'expérience  de soi.

Figures
Quelles formes propres le voyage filmique donne-t-il à des figures
obligées comme le départ, la traversée, le cheminement, la halte,
l'arrivée, la séparation et les retrouvailles, figures qui structurent
le récit et qu"il faudrait aborder dans leurs reprises et leurs
variations.
Parmi celles-ci, une figure privilégiée, la rencontre, mériterait
d'être examinée sous des angles complémentaires, narratif, humain,
social, affectif et symbolique.

Voyage et genres
Quels rapports entretient-il avec les genres ?  Ne traverse-t-il pas la
plupart d'entre eux ?
Le documentaire de voyage,  du récit d'exploration au carnet de séjour
et au film de vacances, peut constituer à lui seul une catégorie
spécifique de documentaire. Il en va de même avec le road-movie dans le
domaine de la fiction.
Mais si le film d'aventures et de science-fiction se trouvent
intimement liés à lui, le voyage sentimental, comique,  fantastique,
d'autres encore se voient tout aussi  représentés.

Voyage et voyage intérieur
Le voyage filmique ne va pas sans une transformation et une aventure
intérieure : récit d'apprentissage, pèlerinage et recherche de soi,
processus initiatique ou découverte réciproque (amitié, solidarité,
amour). La traversée du monde va souvent de pair avec la rencontre de
l'autre et l'accomplissement ou la révélation de soi. Ici se jouent des
destinées.

Les propositions de communications seront adressées, sous forme d'un
résumé d'une dizaine de lignes,

avant le 30 Avril 2003

à

René GARDIES
6 Impasse du Maroc
13012 Marseille
France


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From:    Gregor Claude <[log in to unmask]>


Life's (re-)emergence: philosophy, culture, and politics

A one-day conference * Friday 23 May 2003 * Goldsmiths College * London
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre * 10am - 6pm

Speakers:

Brian Massumi (University of Montreal): Living Memory

John Mullarkey (University of Sunderland): Bio-Aesthetics or the Memory of
the Senses

Luciana Parisi (University of East London): Abstract Sex: bio-digital
machines and symbiotic micropolitics

Jamie King (Mute/University of Minnesota) and Matthew Hyland
(Wolverine): An inherited agenda for annihilating nothingness

Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College): Life and Energy

Scott Lash (Goldsmiths College): Comments on 'Living Memory'

In recent years life has emerged as a concept of extraordinary scope,
reaching into a wide variety of fields. In the tradition of continental
philosophy, life as well as related concepts (virtuality, emergence,
multiplicity, etc.) opens up novel ways in which crucial ontological
problems can be addressed. In the social sciences, the concept of life has
begun to redefine critical disciplines such as cultural studies. In more
praxis-oriented fields such as management (complex adaptive systems), or
computing (a-life), life is increasingly established as a central paradigm.
Most visibly, though, it is the advances in the fields of biotechnology and
biomedicine that has led to the problematisation of life.

Clearly, the conceptual terrains covered by the different notions of life
diverge rather substantially. Life, it seems, does not always equal life. Or
does it ever?

In the context of this conference, life's (re-)emergence is strongly linked
to the comeback of Henri Bergson. His philosophy of life shall serve as
point of departure for the exploration of life=B9s importance for mind,
individuality, and culture. It is our intention to provide a platform on
which connections can be drawn among heterogeneous approaches to life. In
doing this, we hope to be able to create a temporal life-machine that can be
employed to explore new approaches to philosophy, culture and politics.

Attendance is free, but please reserve seats in advance. For reservations,
conference abstracts, schedule, or any other information, email Maria Lakka
<[log in to unmask]>, phone 077 21 76 21 31, or see
<www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/cultural-studies>


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It's all here, and it's all still free, and it's all only at
Metaphilm, the Internet's best, only, most intelligent, funny, and
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We continue to accept and solicit the interpretations of film fans
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Here's what's not to miss this month on Metaphilm:

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From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP: "Technology and Historiography" (Reconstruction 4.1)

Please forward to potentially interested parties:

Technology has long been considered not only as a discrete tool but as a
system for organizing ideas, practices, and politics. Our understanding
of technology both as a tool and an ideology has been shaped recently by
widespread and pronounced discourses of the ^new^: identities,
interfaces and institutions. To complicate and perhaps reject the
corporate presentism that tends to pervade such accounts, we invite
submissions for exploring the place of technology in history. Why is
technology important for thinking not just about the present but about
the past? How has technology changed our very ideas about history? About
the writing of history? The Winter 2004 issue of Reconstruction,
^Technology and Historiography,^ will be dedicated to exploring these
questions.

Reconstruction <http://www.reconstruction.ws> is a culture studies
journal dedicated to fostering an intellectual community composed of
scholars and their audience, granting them all the opportunity and
ability to share thoughts and opinions on the most important and
influential work in contemporary interdisciplinary studies.

^Technology and Historiography^ will be published January 21, 2004.
Submissions should be received no later than October 13, 2003 for
consideration.  This issue is guest-edited by Haidee Wasson, McKnight
Landgrant Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at
the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Submissions are encouraged from a variety of perspectives, including,
but not limited to: geography, cultural studies, folklore, architecture,
history, sociology, psychology, communications, music, political
science, semiotics, theology, art history, queer theory, literature,
criminology, urban planning, gender studies, theater and performance
studies, etc. Both theoretical and empirical approaches are welcomed.

In matters of citation, it is assumed that the proper MLA format will be
followed. Other citation formats are acceptable in respect to the
disciplinary concerns of the author.

All submissions and submission queries should be written care of
[log in to unmask]  Large files, such as Flash movies or
essays with many large pictures, should be sent on a zip disk or CD-R
to:

Reconstruction
104 East Hall
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43402

Please visit us at http://www.reconstruction.ws

Davin Heckman & Matthew Wolf-Meyer, Editors


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From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: CFP: "Transgressing the Frontier: Modernity, American
Ideology, and Cinema" (08/16/2003)

Original essays are invited for a collection tentatively entitled
"Transgressing the Frontier: Modernity, American Ideology, and Cinema."
The purpose of this book is to explore the role of ideology in current
film works with an emphasis on boundary breaking and exploration from a
variety of scholarly approaches and perspectives. Ideally this
collection will be a comprehensive introductory textbook that explores
the critical intersection between film and culture and will be suitable
for use at both undergraduate and graduate levels.

Possible topics include studies of how film has responded to historical
events (The End of the Cold War, Disease and Sexuality, Politics),
oppression (Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, "Youth," Globalization), and
aspects of Love, Hate, Sexuality, and Death. What has been brought to
the public discussion about these concerns through film?  What is the
context within which film responds? Has film changed the discussion?
Papers that explore concepts of the American West in particular, as in
the Western film genre, but also space travel as the new or final
frontier, and transgression of personal boundary exploration as frontier
are particularly welcome.  We would like to see essays on
American film or foreign film about America, especially films from the
past ten years.

Studies of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Class, Sexuality, and Media are
encouraged. Any number of methodological approaches are appropriate and
not limited to: Film Studies, Feminism, Marxism, Post-colonial Studies,
Sociology, Literary Analysis, Anthropology, Ethnography, Culture
Studies, Historical Analysis, Psychology, Theater and Performance
Studies, Genre, etc.

Please submit completed manuscripts (MLA or Chicago style, 20-25 pages
in length) with 250 word abstracts to <[log in to unmask]>.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at the
above email addresses.

The deadline for submission of completed papers is August 16th, 2003.

This collection co-edited by Bennett Huffman and Elliot Atkins.


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From:    Debbie Cock <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: journal of visual culture - new 2003 issue!
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Please find below the contents listing for the April 2003 issue of  journal
of visual culture. For further information on the journal, including how to
submit articles and how to subscribe, or to sign up for our free contents
alerting service, please visit:
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/Details/j0376.html

Volume 02 Issue 1 - Publication Date: 1 April 2003
ARTICLES
Visual essentialism and the object of visual culture Mieke Bal
Hygiene: The Art of Public Health  Helen Coxall, Pam Skelton and Tony
Fletcher
Depression and the logic of separation : situating Pierre Fédida's 'La
Relique et le travail du deuil' (The relic and the work of mourning)  M.
Stone-Richards
The relic and the work of mourning  Pierre Fédida
Pierre Fédida, 1934-2002 : a mémoire  M. Stone-Richards
Air  Henna Asikainen and Silvana Macedo
The mote in God's eye : 9/11, then and now  Jon Bird
The New York Times, Norman Rockwell and the new patriotism  Francis Frascina

BOOKS
Haltof, Marek, Polish National Cinema, reviewed by Sheila Skaff
Shrigley, Gordon, peripher: Eine kurzer Diskurs über die physikalische und
ideelle Ökonomie der Linie in der architektonischen
Repräsentation/Insignificance: A Short Discourse on the Physical and
Ideational Economy of Line within Architectural Representation, reviewed by
Richard Stamp
Barker, Martin (with Thomas Austin), From Antz to Titanic: Reinventing File
Analysis, reviewed by Steven Jay Schneider
Genova, Pamela A., Symbolist Journals: A Culture of Correspondence, reviewed
by Simon Shaw-Miller

Debbie Cock
Journals Marketing Manager
SAGE Publications
6 Bonhill Street
London   EC2A 4PU

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7374 0645 extn 2212
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7374 8741
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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Hi All,

Please see the Call for Papers, below. EnterText is a peer-reviewed
electronic journal, based in the Department of English at Brunel
University. I am guest-editing this edition, themed around Animation
as a topic. This can be understood broadly, to include work-in-
progress, creative work etc, as well as more conventional scholarly
essays. I would also like to include, if at all possible,
contributions that integrate creative work with scholarly research.
With regard to how I'm defining 'Animation' - well, over to you. The
areas noted in the CFP are really just 'pointers', rather than
concrete 'boundaries'.

Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested. If there
are any queries, please contact me. Anyone who is thinking of
contributing something that includes creative/practical work, please
bear with me, as I am something of a novice in this particular area!
Any advice would be appreciated, actually, on how to 'publish'
creative work in this kind of electronic context.

Cheers

Paul Ward

Here's the text of the CFP:

ENTERTEXT

An interactive interdisciplinary e-journal for
cultural and historical studies and creative work


EnterText 4.1:  Animation


This special issue on animation focuses on, but is by no means
limited to:

. Historical and contextual studies of specific animators or
animated films, traditions or styles

. Explorations of how new technologies are changing our
perception of animation as a distinct object or set of practices

. The convergence between live action and animated forms

. Animation and spectatorship

. Critical reflection by animation practitioners on their own
work, or the work of others (essays may be illustrated by animation
clips or still images, so there is an opportunity for contributors to
explore `annotated' work)

Note: EnterText welcomes the submission of creative work. Stand-alone
animation work will also be considered for inclusion, within the
capabilities of the online journal forum. Scripts, work-in-progress
and other projects will also be considered.

For more information about EnterText, notes for contributors, and
previous editions, go to www.brunel.ac.uk/faculty/arts/EnterText/

Deadline for submissions: 1st November 2003 [though work can be submitted
ongoingly up to this date]

If you have a question about a potential submission, please contact
the edition Editor, Paul Ward ([log in to unmask]).


Paul Ward
Lecturer in Film and Television Studies
Dept. of Performing Arts
Brunel University
Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK
01895 274 000 ext 3956


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From:    Anita Biressi <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 'Women in public life' seminar Friday 6th June 2003

Advance notice:

The MeCCSA Women's Media Studies Network (WMSN) is sponsoring a
half-day seminar on the theme of
'Women in public life' . Discussion will focus on the roles of women
in politics and the public
sphere more generally and on the media representation of these roles.
Speakers will include
Sylvia Shaw (Middlesex), Laura Turquet (Policy Officer Fawcett
Society) and Carol Smith (King Alfred's College,
Winchester). The event takes place from midday on Friday 6th June
2003 at the School of Humanities
and Cultural Studies, Roehampton University of Surrey, Roehampton
Lane, London SW15 5PH. The event if free
but please let us know in advance if you wish to attend. For
inquiries or to place your
name on the WMSN contact list contact the conveners Anita Biressi
([log in to unmask]) or Heather Nunn
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From:  "padunov" <[log in to unmask]>

Arrogance and Envy, the 2003 Russian Film Symposium (May 5-10, Pittsburgh,
USA), will focus on the anti-Americanism in communist and post-communist
cinema over five decades (1950s-2000s).  The event provides a scholarly
arena where participants can examine the narrative and visual strategies of
negative US stereotypes by Russo-Soviet filmmakers who have worked under
eight political leaders from Stalin through Putin in constructing Americans
as the enemy.  No other geo-political space has a comparable history (in
length of time or diversity of representational approaches) in generating
anti-American images.  The film screenings are accompanied by discussions,
commentaries, and prepared research papers.

For details, see http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2003/


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CALL FOR ENTRIES

festival e-phos 2003

adventures of digital reaction

Athens'  5th festival of film and new media

15-12 September 2003
Athens  GREECE

www.filmart.gr

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PROGRAMS TO APPLY

Digital Cinema
Computer Animation
Experimental Docs on Art
Corporate Docs on Art
Full Motion Video Games
Digitally Interactive Installations & Live Performances

download REGISTRATION FORM from www.filmart.gr
and send completed with material to
4 OMIROU, GR-164 51 Argyroupli
tel / fax: 003 210 9912733

DEADLINE 1st June 2003

e-phos is an annual large scale festival dedicated to the exhibition and =
promotion of digital arts and creative technology. Organized by the =
Athens-based non profit cultural organization ALAS, festival e-phos is =
an interdisciplinary happening that aims to support a creative exchange =
of experiences and contacts in the sphere of digital creation and the =
arts, and to develop the public's understanding and appreciation of a =
new audiovisual language that emerges through the fusion of different =
mediums and genres.
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WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE

on line registration has started

DEADLINE 1st June 2003

www.filmart.gr

e-phos is supported by Ministry of Culture, Hellenic Organization of =
Tourism, Greek Film Center


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Anarchive's "Digital Snow" DVD-Rom is an amazing resource documenting
all of Michael Snow's works in different media.

The website for Digital Snow is:
http://www.digitalsnow.org


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From: "Rowan Wilson" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 2 NEW TITLES on GILLES DELEUZE



>  NEW TITLES from CONTINUUM:
>
>  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
>  Edited by Jean Khalfa
>
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>and even post-utopian. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles
>Deleuze explodes such categorizations and places Deleuze and
>Deleuzian method at the heart of contemporary thought
>
>  Whether analysing the work of key philosophers, or key concepts
>such as time, difference and subjectivity, or the nature of creation
>(film, painting, literature), Deleuze's concern is always the same.
>From under the layers of history, criticism and interpretation, he
>aims to reveal the problem itself in its own life, as it develops in
>a particular thought or activity.
>
>  This book focuses on the key processes and concepts essential to
>the understanding of the totality of the work, setting these within
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>  2. Intensity, Or: The "Encounter"
>  3. Nietzsche and Spinoza: new personae in a new plane of thought
>  4. An impersonal consciousness
>  Part 2 Art
>  5. The time(s) of the cinema
>  6. Deleuze and Anglo-American literature: water, whales, and melville
>  7. Minority, territory, music
>  8. Empiricism unhinged: from logic of sense to logic of sensation
>  Part 3 Life
>  9. Absolute immanence
>  10. Immanence: a life...
>  Bibliography
>  Index
>
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>
>
>  Between Deleuze and Derrida
>  Edited by Paul Patton and John Protevi
>
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>philosophical relationship between two of the most influential and
>revolutionary thinkers of our time.
>
>  Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers
>of French post-structuralism. Their work on 'philosophies of
>difference' has
>  redrawn the map of Literary Studies, Philosophy, Cultural and Film
>Studies, Science Studies, as well as ethics and feminist,
>postcolonial and political theory.
>
>  Both theorists have been widely studied but very little has been
>done to examine the relation between them. Between Deleuze and
>Derrida explores and compares their work via a number of key themes,
>including the philosophy of difference, language, memory, time,
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>
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>Lawlor, Alphonso Lingis, Tamsin Lorraine, Jeff Nealon, Paul Patton,
>Arkady
>  Plotnitsky, John Protevi, Daniel W. Smith
>
>  CONTENTS
>  Introduction
>  1. Future Politics
>  2. Living a time out of joint
>  3. Deleuze and Derrida, Immanence and Transcendence: two directions
>in recent French thought
>  4. The beginnings  of thought: the fundamental experience in
>Derrida and Deleuze
>  5. Ontology and Logography: the pharmacy, plato and the simulacrum
>  6. Algebras, Geometries, and Topologies of the Fold: Deleuze,
>Derrida and Quasi-Mathematical Thinking (with Leibniz and Mallarme)
>  7. The Philosopher and the Writer: a question of style
>  8. Active habits and passive events or bartleby
>  9. Beyond Hermeneutics: Deleuze, Derrida and contemporary theory
>  10. Language and persecution
>  11. Love
>  Bibliography
>  Index
>
>  224pp / March 2003
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>
>
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Experimental Film Today Conference
From: Peter Wobser <[log in to unmask]>

   Experimental Film Today Conference

   July 4-6, 2003

   Hosted by the University of Central Lancashire, Preston

   We are holding a three day conference on experimental film. The conference
   will be made up of academics and filmmakers from around the world
   delivering papers about the current issues surrounding experimental film .
   The event will also showcase a wide variety of new experimental work from
   France, Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia.For more information
   contact [log in to unmask]


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From:  [log in to unmask]

Please excuse any cross-listings.

To: American West and Film Enthusiasts and Scholars

From: Peter C. Rollins,  Film & History

Subj:  Papers culled for publication in the next two issues of Film & History

     Below listed are the articles for our special issues on "The American
West in Film, Television, and History."  Many film scholars will be delighted
to see these resources.

If these articles draw your eye, please subscribe to Film & History.
Our web site has all the information you need; if you use PayPal, you
can even subscribe electronically.  Also, tell your library to subscribe so
that your students can use this wonderful resource.  We even have back SETS
of Film & History and can get to the library from 1970 to the present!

     Finally, please start planning for our next conference in the fall of
2004-yes, 2004.  Topic is "War in Film, Television, and History" and
the event will be in early November (as per our last meeting).  We are still
negotiating with a special site, but have not yet signed a contract.   The
next issue of Film & History will have essential information and tell your
fellow film scholars about this forum.

     If  you like film or history, you will love Film & History!

Peter Rollins
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web site for Film&History is www.filmandhistory.org
   (Can subscribe via this  web site.)

FILM & HISTORY 33.1  (2003)
[Approximate date of publication: April 30, 2003]

Topic: THE AMERICAN WEST IN FILM, TELEVISION, AND HISTORY (Part 1)

Introduction by Peter  C. Rollins

Special issue introduction by Deborah Carmichael

Jennifer Smyth
"Cimarron: The New Western History in 1931"
Yale University
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Joanna Hearne
"The 'Ache for Home" in Anthony Mann's Devil Doorway"
University of Arizona
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Matthew J. Costello
"Rewriting High Noon: Transformation in American Popular Culture During the
Cold War"
Saint Xavier University-Chicago
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Loren Quiring
"Dead Men Walking: Consumption and Agency in the Western"
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
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Alexander Keller
"Historical Discourse and American Identity in Westerns since the Reagan
Administration"
Smith College
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Book  Reviews:  Ed. Robert J. Fyne, Kean  University of New Jersey

Film Reviews: Ed. Robert Sickels, Whitman College

___________

FILM & HISTORY 33.2  (2003)
[Approximate date of publication: September, 2003]

Topic: THE AMERICAN WEST IN FILM, TELEVISION, AND HISTORY (Part 2)

Introduction by Peter  C. Rollins

Special issue introduction by Deborah Carmichael

Winona Howe
"Professional Women-Women in The Professionals"
LaSierra University
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Kimberly Sultze
"Rewriting the West as Multi-Cultural: Legend Meets Complex Histories in la
Frontera in John Sayles' Lone Star (1996)
Saint Michael's College
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Matthew R. Turner
"Cowboys and Comedy: The Simultaneous Deconstruction and Reinforcement of
Generic Conventions in the Western Parody"
Ohio University
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Barry Langford
"The 'Revisionist' Western-Revised"
University of London
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David Pierson
"Turner Network Television's Made-for-TV Western Films and the Social
Construction of Authenticity"
University of Southern Maine
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Book  Reviews:  Ed. Robert J. Fyne, Kean  University of New Jersey

Film Reviews: Ed. Robert Sickels, Whitman College

_______

See web site for details: www.filmandhistory.org

or contact

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