Cinemascope – Independent Film Journal
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Fall Issue (September-December 2005)
NEW CINEMA: NEW IDENTITY
INNOVATIONS IN THE CINEMA-IDENTITY RELATIONSHIP
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With its third issue Cinemascope will investigate new relations between
cinema and identity. The cinematographic system sets in play the relation of
self-other, whether this is realized by means of the perspective of the film
on reality (cinema as “subject” which interprets reality), or that view of
the spectator of the film, or to the self-other relation narrated in the
film. Certainly, this last relation is the most visible especially in films
that represent identity (social, racial, territorial, of gender, etc.) as an
immediately recognisable theme.
However, wanting to go beyond thematic indications, we intend to clarify
some processes by means of which the contemporary cinema is implicated with
identity, that this new cinema “thinks” identity, and also suggests new ways
of thinking about identity. We invite you to explore and perhaps verify if
it is possible to translate the expression “cinema and identity” into
“cinema is identity.” The articles may be centered not only on the action of
the cinema (e.g., cinema production, the uses of techniques and
technologies) but also on both the texts of the cinema (e.g., featured in
the analysis of film), and the texts on the cinema (scientific literature).
Possible Topics
- Working with film today: Working with new identities
In what way is the organization of film production implicated in identity
(according to the ontological, anthropological, cultural, social, etc. point
of view)?
In what way is identity implicated in different cinematographically
structured representations (territorially, ideologically) considering, for
example, different ways of interaction between roles in the realisation of
the film (set design, direction, photography, editing, etc.)?
This question could be engaged either by focusing on certain modes of
production in specific
contexts, or by comparing contexts and situations. Specific films as
revealing case studies might be used.
What relations do we find in dynamics existing between the ordering of
production, the techniques, the technologies, the new languages, the new
styles, and the new forms of identity
- The cinema senses identity: New potential for the cinema to reveal
identity
Our age is marked by a network of identities always more complex that the
cinema explores and recounts.
In what way does the cinema, telling of specific self-other relations
(social, racial, geographical, of gender, etc.) by means of a given form and
a given language represent or prefigure a vision, a global idea of identity
(characterized, for example, by stability, dynamism, difference, mediation,
integration, correspondence, ambivalence, etc.)?
- Thinking Cinema: Thinking Identity in a new way
Within cinema there is a circulation of intellectual positions, approaches,
points of view, world views and methodologies. It is the babble of languages
which thinks and speaks articulates the Cinema.
In what way is identity (from the point of view of ontology, ideology,
anthropology, culture, society, etc.) implicated in the scientific and
philosophical reflection on the cinema of our times?
How are the various forms of discourse on cinema based on different
typologies of thought (abstract/conceptual, metaphorical/imaginative,
analytical, synthetic, etc.?
Are there new cinema discourses on the horizon which can draw out elements
of identity in a more complex and dynamic way?
INFORMATION AND DEADLINES
Proposals: May 1st, 2005
Communication from Cinemascope: May 15th, 2005
Submission of articles: June 30th, 2005
Lengths of articles : max 3000 words
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