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From: Jonathan Kahana <[log in to unmask]>
CFP: The Transnational "I" (Visible Evidence XI; Bristol, Dec. 12-16,
2003)
The industrial and mechanical conditions of cinema have always created
challenges for artists who use film as a subjective and expressive
medium. In the work of many contemporary documentary filmmakers, the
problems of cinema's speaking subject are made to reflect the
contingencies of identity in a time of geopolitical anxiety. Whether it
takes the conventional form of the interview or the idiosyncratic modes
of the personal documentary or the so-called "essay film," the
discourse of the first-person in these films can be seen as an attempt
to situate an "I" of cinema in the geographical, social, and political
landscapes of the post-colonial and post-national world order.
Filmmakers such as Raoul Peck, Trinh T. Minh-Ha, Chris Marker, Werner
Herzog, Heddy Honigmann, Chantal Ackerman, Derek Jarman, and Jean-Luc
Godard raise questions about the relation between cinema and other
experiences of movement and passing. How do forms of first-person
discourse permit these and other contemporary filmmakers to explore the
concepts of ethnicity, nationality, and citizenship; or the experiences
or im/migration, displacement, exile, and repatriation? This panel
invites papers which consider any aspect of the relation between
documentary forms of first-person expression and questions of place,
passage, national, or ethnic identity; or which pursue a comparison
between the (inter-)subjective dimensions of testimony and the figure
of the nomad, the exile, the im/migrant, the tourist, the diplomat.
Send a brief abstract (200-300 words) and relevant biographical data to
[log in to unmask] by August 15, 2003; more information about Visible
Evidence XI available at:
http://humanities.uwe.ac.uk/visible-evidence/
Jonathan Kahana
Department of English
Bryn Mawr College
101 North Merion Avenue
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
(610) 526-5302 office
(610) 526-7477 fax
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