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Screen Studies Conference 2006
organised by Screen journal

University of Glasgow, Scotland
30 June - 2 July 2006


CALL FOR PAPERS

The 16th international Screen Studies Conference will be programmed
by Screen editors Karen Lury and John Caughie
and will offer a mix of keynote addresses, panels and workshop sessions.

Proposals may be on any topic in screen studies.
The focus of the plenaries, however, and a strand within the conference, will be

Television aesthetics: after film theory

Plenary speakers will include:
John T. Caldwell (UCLA)
Jeffrey Sconce (Northwestern University)
Lynn Spigel (Northwestern University)


Please send us your 200-word proposal to arrive no later than 31 January 2006.
Joint submissions of up to four speakers forming a panel are also welcome.
Proposals and enquiries should be sent to Emily Munro by e-mail:
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Please mark subject box 'Conference 2006'
Notification of acceptance will be sent out around the end of February 2005.
Further details of the 2006 conference programme and a registration form will be posted on www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk as they become available.
Details of previous conference programmes and papers (2004 and 2005) are also viewable on the site.



Conference Announcement: Cinema at the Periphery


June 15-18, 2006, Centre for Film Studies,
University of St Andrews, Scotland.


Cinema at the Periphery is an International Film Studies Conference that examines filmmaking outside of established boundaries.

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Dudley Andrew, Yale University
John Caughie, University of Glasgow
Pam Cook, University of Southampton
Mette Hjort, Lingnan University
Faye Ginsburg, New York University
Sheldon Lu, University of California- Davis
Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University
Duncan Petrie, University of Auckland
Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam

From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, there is currently a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production addressing the notion of the 'periphery'. In Film Studies, this wave is called many things: accented cinema, transnational cinema and minor cinema being just some of the terms used to conceptualise cinema beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. In recent years, international cinema has also produced a large body of work that foregrounds questions of transnationality, place, space, passage and migration. There is a resolute move towards exploring faraway places, in interacting with barely known peoples, and in making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions gradually dissolve, as 'center' and 'periphery' no longer figure as firmly fixed grid coordinates. The hierarchical position of the 'centre' is variously subverted and changed in films that come from a variety of locations traditionally interpreted as peripheral.

Exploring peripheral cinemas from around the globe, Cinema at the Periphery focuses on the following three key areas:

The functioning of various peripheral film industries, and the strategies they adopt to compete in a global market dominated by established filmmaking centres.

The distinctive narratives that emerge from peripheral cinemas, often focusing on disputed or border territories, or characters in "foreign" locations.

The new, often transnational identities that are created in films produced at the periphery.


The conference will be supplemented by a number of screenings, followed by Q&A sessions with directors experienced in filmmaking at the periphery.

Further information - including a registration form - will be available in February 2006 from the Film Studies website.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/filmstudies/

A 20% discount on the Cinema at the Periphery conference fee will be given to those who also register for the Screen conference, 30 June -2 July 2006.



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Screen
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Glasgow University
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Scotland

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