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The Politics of 'Visual Pleasure' 30 Years On: The Work of Laura Mulvey
Saturday 18th June 2005, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
2005 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Laura Mulvey’s
seminal essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, which polemically
tracked the gendered nature of spectatorship in Hollywood cinema. In this
one-day conference, we acknowledge the importance of Mulvey’s work, which
became extraordinarily influential in that rich interdisciplinary terrain
where ideas from post-structuralism flooded into film, literary and cultural
studies.
The conference will consider issues such as: how has Mulvey’s work
subsequently developed? What is its legacy today and for the future? Do its
insights migrate well to new objects, such as the soundtrack, or African
cinema? Does the psychoanalytic core of Mulvey’s work stand the test of
time, in light of historical and empirical studies of spectatorship?
Among the speakers are Laura Mulvey, Diane Negra, Mandy Merck, Annette Kuhn,
Emma Wilson and Andrew Webber, with Colin MacCabe, Henrietta Moore, Juliet
Mitchell, Mary Jacobus, David Trotter and others as discussants and session
chairs.
The conference will be of interest to scholars and students from film, media
and English studies, from gender, cultural and music studies, to
sociologists and anthropologists of media and culture, as well as to those
engaged with psychoanalytic cultural theory.
For details of how to register, please see
http://www.am-design.co.uk/mulvey.html
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From: Ben Singer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Film Style Symposium - Madison, April 21-23
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FILM STYLE IN QUESTION
AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF DAVID BORDWELL
UW-MADISON, APRIL 21-23, 2005
The graduate program in Film at the University of Wisconsin - Madison is hosting a major symposium in honor of David Bordwell. FILM STYLE IN QUESTION will bring together eleven renowned film scholars - from Denmark, Italy, Hong Kong, and the United States -- to present some of the most interesting current research in film aesthetics.
The symposium honors Bordwell on the occasion of his retirement from the UW faculty after thirty-one years of stunning productivity and inspiration to students and scholars of cinema worldwide.
Symposium speakers will include: David Bordwell, Francesco Casetti, Tom Gunning, Mette Hjort, Lea Jacobs, James Naremore, Ben Singer, Kristin Thompson, Yuri Tsivian, Casper Tybjerg, and Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh.
Please visit the web site: http://cinema.wisc.edu/filmstyle
Film aesthetics explores how and why particular films and groups of films look and sound the way they do. It studies the means by which film style generates expressive emotion, unfolds narratives, connotes meanings, and creates compelling formal patterns. And it tries to understand the historical factors shaping film style - looking at, among other things, concrete problems and solutions in the filmmaking process, the influence of traditions and trends, industrial and technological developments, cultural currents and social contexts. FILM STYLE IN QUESTION emphasizes work stemming from concrete research questions, while also acknowledging the importance of broader issues and debates about the place of film aesthetics within the field of Film Studies.
A highlight of the symposium will be a rare complete screening of Louis Feuillade's infamous 12-part serial TIH MINH (France, 1919) - a work that has been shown only a handful of times in North America in the past 85 years. This two-evening event will feature live accompaniment by renowned silent film pianist David Drazin.
Please join us! For complete details, visit: http://cinema.wisc.edu/filmstyle
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CALL FOR REVIEWERS
Documentary film available for academic conferences and for review. (We are seeking reviewers, based in North America, with an existing relationship with academic print journals, online journals, association newsletters, email listservs, etc. Reviews must be submitted by reviewers; First Run/Icarus Films cannot submit.) Interested persons should contact me directly, off-list.
THE ISTER
Read Full Description Here: www.frif.com/new2005/ist.html
Martin Heidegger published Being and Time in 1927. In 1933, he embraced the National Socialist 'revolution,' becoming rector of Freiburg University. After clashing with the Nazi bureaucracy, however, he resigned the rectorate in 1934.
Eight years later, as the tide of the war was turning against Germany, Heidegger spent the summer semester lecturing on the poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin, focusing on The Ister. Rather than a retreat into the realm of aesthetics, Heidegger's lectures directly addressed the political, cultural and military chaos then facing Germany and the world.
The new documentary THE ISTER takes up some of the most challenging paths in Heidegger's thought. As we travel from the mouth of the Danube River in Romania to its source in the Black Forest, four thinkers discuss his contemporary relevance, including Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, and filmmaker Hans-Jürgen Syberberg.
By drawing the places and times of the river into a constellation with Heidegger's thought, THE ISTER invites the viewer to participate in some of the most provocative questions-of home and place, culture and memory, of technology and ecology, of politics and war-that concern us today just as much as they did Heidegger in 1942.
Dylan M. McGinty
First Run / Icarus Films, Inc.
32 Court Street, 21st Floor
Brooklyn NY 11201
Tel (718) 488 8900
Email [log in to unmask]
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From: The Collective for Critical Practices <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: [D-G] CFP: Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the
Political (7/31/05; 10/20/05-10/22/05)
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Out of Time: Theorizations of Culture and the Political
Featuring Keynote Speakers Michael Hardt and Mary Ann Doane
October 20-22, 2005 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Organized by The Collective for Critical Practices, a group of graduate
students in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
This conference is concerned with what it might mean to be ìout of timeî
and its implications and applications for our present moment. Our
Collective approaches ìout of timeî as a sense of urgency, a potential that
emerges out of ìpresentness,î and a transformation of earlier assumptions
of temporality. Today, urgency and the potential of the present have been
elevated by the presumed waning of modernist notions of history and complex
shifts in the relations of production. We are out of time.
This problematic is being taken up in a myriad of provocative ways within
both academic and non-academic spheres of production from philosophy to
literature to film to political activism. In The Emergence of Cinematic
Time, Mary Ann Doane explores the intersections between temporality,
modernity, the archive and cinema. Michael Hardtís work conceptualizes the
reorganization of production and temporality in the era of globalization.
The Collective for Critical Practices in conjunction with the Cultural
Studies and Comparative Literature Film Society at the University of
Minnesota invite submissions for our Fall 2005 conference dedicated to the
theme ìout of time.î Our first priority is to consider a multiplicity of
viewpoints that explore, challenge, contest and engage in current
theoretical debates on this issue. Further, we encourage collaborative
works and cultural productions (e.g. photo-essays, web art, live art, and
film/video pieces) in addition to traditional essay presentations. Our
commitment is to open our collective to intellectual and creative producers
that are critically and rigorously involved in the urgent task of thinking
ìout of time,î regardless of academic or artistic distinction.
Potential topics might include (but are not limited to) the following:
ï Transformations of wage time
ï Time and national memorialization
ï The cinematic event
ï Science fictions of empire
ï Temporalities of technology
ï Ontology and history
ï Wasting and spending time
ï Narrativizations of time
ï Nostalgia and utopia
ï Emergence and becoming
ï Bodies in time
ï Potential, hope, and the future
ï Rest and inertia
ï Trauma, memory, repetition
ï Space(s) without time
ï Time in exile
ï Temporality and subjectivity
ï Public/private time
Abstracts of 500 words and a brief c.v., as well as panel proposals (which
should include individual abstracts), and any questions or comments should
be submitted to:
[log in to unmask]
Abstracts due: July 31, 2005
For more information visit:
www.tc.umn.edu/~critprac
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Current State of Documentary Filmmaking
(A Special Issue of Post Script )
In the initial chapter of his 1995 book Claiming the Real, Brian Winston
suggested that the eroding effects of digital technology would
"undermine the mimetic power of all photographic processes" to such a
degree that they would have "a profound and perhaps fatal impact on the
documentary film." Although the threat to the evidentiary value of the
documentary image that Winston proposed was substantial, the subsequent
decade has by no means seen anything like a disappearance of the form.
On television, reality shows and whole networks built round the genre
continue to proliferate, the Sundance festival, with its founding
commitment to documentary film, has outgrown its Park City home,
documentary images, expressed in the Swift Boat Veterans ads and
Fahrenheit 9/11, occupied center stage for a significant portion of a
presidential election season, and Moore's film easily became the most
profitable documentary ever made.
What are we to make of this current state of affairs with regard to
documentary films? If Winston is correct (and in theoretical terms it
seems hard to disagree with him), what are we to make of the popular
vitality of the form? In what measure is the Griersonian ideal still
alive in filmmakers and audiences? To what degree is current documentary
driven by the same forces that drive commercial fiction filmmaking? What
major achievements feed current interest in documentary film? What
filmmakers and what films point toward the most interesting, promising,
or depressing prospects for the future of the form?
In a special issue devoted to the current state of documentary,
guest-edited by Ken Nolley and Steve Mintz, Post Script is seeking
essays, substantive interviews, and book reviews that explore these and
related questions, including careful assessments of important recent
documentary films.
All article submission should be 5,000-7,000 words in length. Book
reviews should be 500-1,000 word, with titles cleared by the guest
editors. Contributors should format submissions based on the MLA Style
Manual, 2nd edition. Manuscripts may be emailed as an attached MS Word
file. If mailed, please send three copies, author identification on a
cover sheet only, and a SASE if requesting return of copies.
Deadline for submissions is September. 15, 2005.
Send submissions to: Ken Nolley / English Department / Willamette
University / 900 State Street/ Salem, OR 97301 / Phone: (503) 370-6280 /
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Questions about Post Script, back issues, or subscription information
should be directed to: Gerald Duchovnay / General Editor, Post Script /
[log in to unmask]
Information related to back issues of and subscription information for
Post Script can be found at:
http://www7.tamu-commerce.edu/litlang/BackIssues.htm
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From: Andrew Carruthers <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Media Literacy
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On 10th February Ofcom published its two research reviews, into the media
literacy of children and adults.
Ofcom defines media literacy as the ability to access, understand and
create communications in a variety of contexts. Ofcom has a duty to promote
media literacy under Section 11 of the Communications Act 2003.
The reviews are:
§ The Media Literacy of Children and Young People: a review of the
research literature by Professor David Buckingham (Institute of Education
University of London). This can be found at -
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumer_guides/media_literacy/Medlitpub/mlcyp.pdf
§ Adult Media Literacy: A review of the research literature by
Professor Sonia Livingstone (Department of Media and Communications, LSE).
This can be found at -
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consumer_guides/media_literacy/Medlitpub/aml.pdf
The purpose of this work was to outline the range of studies conducted, the
gaps in research, provide examples of innovative methodologies, and outline
possible barriers and enablers to media literacy identified by these
studies.
These reviews have admirably fulfilled their task, and provide a
stimulating point of departure for informing and refining research
strategies and methodologies. Some of the recommendations can be taken
forward by Ofcom; others may be more relevant to other stakeholders
including content producers, broadcasters, platform and network providers,
educators, government departments, parents, children’s charities and other
organisations.
The assumptions, conclusions and recommendations expressed in the reviews
are those of the authors and should not be attributed to Ofcom.
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From: Kerry Gough <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Science Fiction(s) CFP University of Nottingham, UK
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Science Fiction(s):
A Study Day on Science Fiction Film, Television, Literature and New Media
University of Nottingham, UK
Friday, 19th August 2005
While popular representations of science fiction have been granted a
certain degree of academic legitimacy in recent years, this study day
represents an attempt to rethink the frameworks in which the study of
science fiction has been defined generically by industries, audiences and
texts. The Science Fiction(s) event seeks to redress the balance in order
to examine the cross over of sf spectacularity, and the intermediality of
sf’s intersection with television, literature and new media.
This one day forum for debate is intended to facilitate an interrogation of
the cultural value of these peripheral and multidisciplinary engagements
with science fiction(s), seeking to examine how sf space has transmuted
into divergent media. Our intention is to look specifically at the
extensive cross over potentials that emerge between sf manifestations such
as television, literature, DVD and video, as well as gaming and internet
community participation.
Possible topics might include but are by no means limited to:
SF Crossing the Generic Divide
Science Fiction/Science Fact
Science Fiction and Science Eventuality
Selling Science Fiction To Infinity and Beyond
Blockbusting SF SFX
Low Budget and Independent SF
Time Travel and Quantum Leaps
Transgressive Hyperbodies
Internet Communities, Fandom and Collecting
Gaming and Console Creativity
Please send proposals of 300 words and a short biographical note by Friday,
29 April 2005 to Kerry Gough at: [log in to unmask]
Or by post to:
Kerry Gough
Science Fiction(s) Committee
Institute of Film and Television Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham NG7 2RD
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From: Peter Lamarque <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: British Journal of Aesthetics - contents Jan 2005
BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS
Volume 45, No. 1, January 2005
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
Why is Drawing Interesting?
RICHARD WOLLHEIM
Reforming Indicated Type Theories
JOHN DILWORTH
A Paradox in Intentionalism
DANIEL O. NATHAN
Colour and Pictorial Representation
ALAN LEE
McIntosh’s Unrealistic Picture of Peacocke
and Hopkins on Realistic Pictures
CATHARINE ABELL
Critical Study: Artworks and Generative Performances
JULIAN DODD
BOOK REVIEWS
Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art:
The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology: edited
by Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen
ROGER POUIVET
Art and Value: George Dickie
CHRISTOPHER BARTEL
Deleuze on Literature: Ronald Bogue; Deleuze
on Cinema: Ronald Bogue; Deleuze on Music,
Painting and the Arts: Ronald Bogue
JILL MARSDEN
The Aesthetic in Kant: A Critique:
James Kirwan
ROSS WILSON
Architectures: Modernism and After:
edited by Andrew Ballantyne
RICHARD HILL
Art and Social Theory: Austin Harrington
IAN HEYWOOD
Laughing at Nothing. Humor as a Response to
Nihilism: John Marmysz
Alena Dvorakova
The British Journal of Aesthetics is published quarterly, in January, April,
July, and October.
For editorial information, contact the Editor, Peter Lamarque, at the
address below.
Individuals can subscribe to the journal by becoming members of the British
Society of Aesthetics: membership also includes regular newsletters. To
join, and thereby subscribe to the journal (as an individual, not as an
institution), write to:
Journal Subscriptions (The British Journal of Aesthetics),
Oxford University Press,
Great Clarendon Street,
Oxford OX2 6DP,
UK
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Membership rates (for individuals only, not institutions):
standard rate: £28 (pounds sterling) or $44 (US dollars) per annum
student rate: £12 (pounds sterling) or $19 (US dollars) per annum
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For full information about the journal, including institutional
subscriptions and individual subscriptions other than through the British
Society of Aesthetics, visit our website: <http://www.oup.co.uk/aesthj>www.oup.co.uk/aesthj
The British Society of Aesthetics website is: <http://www.british-aesthetics.org>www.british-aesthetics.org
______________________
Professor Peter Lamarque
Department of Philosophy
University of York
York, YO10 5DD
UK
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Phone: +44 (0)1904 433259/433251
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Editor: The British Journal of Aesthetics
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From: "Irwin, William" <[log in to unmask]>
I am very pleased to announce the publication of More Matrix and
Philosophy: Revolutions and Reloaded Decoded, Volume 11 in the Open Court
Popular Culture and Philosophy Series. Please see the table of contents
below.
William Irwin
Series Editor,
Open Court Publishing, Popular Culture and Philosophy
Associate Professor of Philosophy
King’s
College
Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711
(570) 208–5900 ext. 5493
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http://www.kings.edu/wtirwin/
More
Matrix and Philosophy: Revolutions and
Reloaded Decoded
William Irwin,
Editor
Acknowledgments
COMING
ATTRACTIONS: “Where Have You Gone, Mr.
Anderson?”
SCENE 1
THE SEQUELS:
SUCK-FEST OR SUCCESS?
1. The Matrix and Plato’s Cave:
Why the Sequels Failed
Lou Marinoff
2. The Matrix of
Control:
Why The Matrix Still Has Us
William Irwin
3. Only Love Is Real: Plato, Kant, and the Matrix
Trilogy
James Lawler
4. The Matrix Is the Prozac of the People
Martin Danahay
5. “The Purpose of Life is to End”:
Schopenhauerian Pessimism, Nihilism, and Nietzschean Will to
Power
Mark A.
Wrathall
SCENE 2
A SPLINTER IN YOUR MIND: FREEDOM AND
REALITY
6. Choice, Purpose, and Understanding : Neo, the
Merovingian, and the Oracle
Theodore Schick, Jr.
7. Why Make a Matrix? And Why You Might Be
In One
Nick
Bostrom
8. Challenging Simulacra and Simulation:
Baudrillard in The Matrix
David Detmer
9. The Music of The Matrix: Where Are We Hearing
When We Hear the Future?
Theodore Gracyk
SCENE
3
GLOBAL
PHILOSOPHY UNPLUGGED
10. The
Matrix and Vedanta: Journeying from
the Unreal to the Real
Anna Lännström
11. The Cosmological Journey of Neo: An Islamic Matrix
Idris Hamid
12. Faith, Understanding, and the Hidden God of The
Matrix
William
Jaworski
13. Neo-Orthodoxy:
Tales Of The Reluctant Messiah, Or “Your Own Personal Jesus”
Ben Witherington III
SCENE 4
WE’RE NOT LIVING IN ZION: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES IN
THE MATRIX
14. Race Matters in The Matrix: Is Morpheus Black? Is Race
Real?
Jorge J.E.
Gracia and William Irwin
15. Pissin’ Metal: Columbine, Malvo, and the Matrix of
Violence
Gregory
Bassham and Henry Nardone
16. Reloaded
Revolutions
Slavoj Zizek
The Merovingian’s Minions
The Keymaker’s Index
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From: Randolph Jordan <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Experimental Film edition of Synoptique
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Hello friends.
The online film journal Synoptique (out of the cinema department at
Concordia University in Montreal) has just posted edition 8 dedicated
entirely to experimental cinema. Check it out:
http://www.synoptique.ca
Randolph.
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From: Alan Shapiro <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance
Sender: Alan Shapiro <[log in to unmask]>
To: "INTERNET:[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Friend,
Please buy a copy of my book "Star Trek: Technologies of Disappearance." It
is available from amazon.com, amazon.de, the St. Mark's Bookshop in New
York, and directly from the publisher at www.avinus.de.
Reviews have appeared in NoemaLab, Medienwissenschaft, CTHEORY, Science
Fiction Studies, and Nach dem Film. More reviews will soon be appearing in
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Resource Center for
Cyberculture Studies, and Fortean Times.
We are still looking for a North American distributor for the book, in case
you have any ideas (the book was published in Berlin).
* * * *
"A brilliant essay on the science and culture of technologies that genially
and ingeniously uses Star Trek as a pretext."
-- NoemaLab
http://www.noemalab.org/sections/stuff_review.php?IDRecensioni=47
"Disappearance turns aside the intended uses of technologies and unpacks
their creative and alternative secondary effects. Shapiro acknowledges his
intellectual debt to Baudrillard and Virilio."
-- Medienwissenschaft
"A truly original, truly formative rethinking of Star Trek as a prism by
which to understand contemporary times."
-- CTHEORY
"Shapiro makes a case that Star Trek has had a much more complex
ambivalence toward virtual reality than its reputation. It's intriguing."
-- Science Fiction Studies
"Uncanny resemblance between Baudrillard and Star Trek: "precognition" of
Baudrillard's keywords and "pataphysical technologies" -- transporter, warp
speed, time travel, the Holodeck."
-- Nach dem Film
Our society dreams of making Star Trek's technologies real. Scientists,
computer technologists and science fiction media fans strive to bring to
fruition:
· the transporter with quantum entanglement
· interstellar space travel with faster-than-light speed
· time travel with fabricated wormholes
· the Holodeck as the Holy Grail of virtual reality
· universal communication with the Klingon Language
· cyborgs and androids with artificial intelligence
· contact with aliens as the future that must take place
But does Star Trek's worldview coincide with the unbridled high-tech
enthusiasm of recent years? Or is there a tension between the show's
originality and the Borg-like assimilation of its creativity by the Star
Trek industry? Focusing on the stories themselves, the author reveals the
basic principles behind Star Trek that contest the ideology of mainstream
technoscience, consumer culture, and liberal humanism promoted by Paramount
Pictures.
Bringing together the passion of a true fan and an intellectual reflection
on science, technology and media culture, Star Trek: Technologies of
Disappearance explains the real reasons for Star Trek's global mass appeal
for the very first time. The encounter between thought and a popular
subject mutually transforms both, and brings about genuine movement in
ideas.
Alan N. Shapiro was born in New York City and studied at MIT and Cornell
University. He has lived in Germany since 1991, and has fifteen years'
professional experience as a software developer. He also taught sociology
at New York University. He has recently lectured at the Humboldt University
Media Studies Institute in Berlin, and at the Center for Art and Media in
Karlsruhe. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International
Journal of Baudrillard Studies.
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From: David Webb <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: 'The Problem of the New' - The British Society for Phenomenology
Conference 2005
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THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY
Annual Conference 2005
April 8th – 10th
St Hilda’s College, Oxford
THE PROBLEM OF THE NEW
With the breakdown in classical paradigms of production, innovation in the
approach to time, and a reconsideration of practice in the light of
philosophies of difference, the problem of the new has come to occupy an
important place in a variety of philosophical fields, including ontology,
political philosophy, art and the philosophy of science. The conference
will examine the problem of the new from a variety of perspectives.
Speakers
Mario Perniola (Università di Roma Tor Vergata)
- Expanded Epoché
Claire Colebrook (University of Edinburgh)
- The Work of Art that Stands Alone
Daniel Smith (Purdue University)
- Gilles Deleuze and the Conditions of the New
Jessica Wiskus (Duquesne University)
- Thought Time and Musical Time: Thinking Bachelard through Messiaen
Christian Kerslake (Middlesex University)
- The New the Old and the Eternal
Aislinn O’Donnell (University College Dublin)
- A Kaleidoscopic Vision of Being
Philip Goodchild (Nottingham University)
- Truth and Utopia
Dragana Jelenic (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
- The Problem of the New and the Experience of Production
A full conference programme and registration documents can be found at the
British Society for Phenomenology website at
http://phenomenology.marjon.ac.uk/conference.htm
Alternatively, you can contact the Secretary of the British Society for
Phenomenology, David Webb: Faculty of Arts Media and Design, Staffordshire
University, College Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, GB:
[log in to unmask]: 01782 294769.
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From: Julian Stringer <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: *Scope* Relaunches - Issue 1 Now Online
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Dear All
*Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies* is currently celebrating its fifth year of continuous publication. In order to mark this occasion, we have relaunched the journal with a new look web site and numbered issues (Issue no. 1 New Series, Feb 2005 - all previous issues now available in our Archive.) As before, the journal remains available through the web site of the Institute of Film and Television Studies at the University of Nottingham. However, *Scope* now has a new URL - http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk
The new site will continue to be updated over the coming months as we add links and expand our newly-installed search engine to include all archived issues. We hope our readers and contributors will approve of these changes and will find the new design and layout both attractive and easy to use.
Our guidelines for submission have also been amended. We now consider articles of between 5000-7500 words, and encourage the submission of extended book and film reviews (i.e. essays of between 2000-3500 words.) In addition, each year we will commission reviews of three major annual conferences - MeCCSA (Media, Communication, and Cultural Studies Association), Screen (University of Glasgow), and SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies) - and consider reports on other conferences of interest to readers.
Here is the list of contents of Issue 1 (Feb 2005):
Articles
'Danger! Danger! Danger!' or When Animals Might Attack: Adventure Activism and Wildlife Film and Television
Mark L. Berrettini
'Just the lemon next to the pie': Apocalypse, History and the Limits of Myth in Big Wednesday (1978)
Joan Ormrod
The Persona of Se7en
Jason Scott
Transformative Soundscapes: Innovating De Forest Phonofilms Talkies in Australia
Brian Yecies
Book Reviews
Crash Cultures -- Modernity, Mediation and the Material, By Jane Arthurs and Iain Grant (eds.)
Reviewer: Jon Baldwin
Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive, By Valerie Orpen
Reviewer: Martin Stollery
Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929-1939, By Colin Crisp
Reviewer: Susan Hayward
Hitchcock's Films Revisited: Revised Edition, By Robin Wood
Reviewer: Frances Pheasant-Kelly
Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, By Jon Lewis
Reviewer: Alex Naylor
Jean-Jacques Beineix, By Phil Powrie
Reviewer: Devona Mallory
Mouse Morality -- The Rhetoric of Disney Animated Film, By Annalee R. Ward
Reviewer: Jon Baldwin
Selling Hollywood to the World: U.S. and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 1920-1950, By John Trumphour
Reviewer: Douglas Gomery
The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground, By Goran Gocic
Reviewer: William A. Martin
The Cinema of Wim Wenders: The Celluloid Highway, By Alexander Graf
Reviewer: Tim Grünewald
The Southern Movie Palace: Rise, Fall and Resurrection, By Janna Jones & The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption By Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire, with Sarah Stubbings
Reviewer: Ina Rae Hark
The Whisper of Leaves, By Craig Smith
Reviewer: Kenneth R. Morefield
Underground U.S.A: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon, By Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider (eds.), with Foreword by Lloyd Kaufman
Reviewer: Rebecca Feasey
Young and Innocent?: The Cinema in Britain 1896-1930, By Andrew Higson (ed.)
Reviewer: Jessica Brent
Film Reviews
An Affair (Jeon-Sa) & Happy End (Hae-P'i-En-Teu)
Reviewer: Teo Kia Choong
The Passion of the Christ
Reviewer: Brian Gibson
Ma vraie vie à Rouen
Reviewer: Florian Grandena
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Reviewer: Alice Mills
Elephant
Reviewer: Elizabeth Rosen
Capturing the Friedmans
Reviewer: Deborah Shaller
Finále Festival of Czech Film, Plzen, Czech Republic 29 March - 4 April 2004
Reviewer: David Sorfa
Gerry
Reviewer: Dan Stefik
Cabin Fever
Reviewer: Ross Thompson
Sylvia
Reviewer: Diane R. Wiener
Conference Reports
British Association for American Studies Annual Conference, 15-18 April 2004, Manchester Metropolitan University
Reporter: Catherine Mills
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 4-7, 2004, Omni Hotel at CNN Center, Atlanta, USA
Reporter: Liza Palmer
Interrogating Post-Feminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture, The University of East Anglia, 2-3 April 2004
Reporter: Rebecca Feasey
Journeys Across Media (JAM) forum, 23 April 2004, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, University of Reading
Reporter: Iris Luppa
best
Julian
Dr. Julian Stringer
Co-Ordinating Editor, *Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies*
Institute of Film and Television Studies
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham
NG7 2RD
England
Tel: +44 (0) 115 951 4846
Fax: + 44 (0) 115 951 4270
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film
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Subject: Issue 34 now online!
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:14:51 +1100
Issue 34 of
Senses of Cinema
is online at
http://www.sensesofcinema.com
Articles include:
2004 World Poll
Australian Cinema
Tom White
History of Australian Cinema DVD
Features
Formula 17 and Taiwan populist cinema
East Asian cinema remakes in Hollywood
Dogville's credit sequence
Contemporary Central and East European Film
New Queer Cinema
Jean Renoir
Invocation of my Demon Brother
Keith Gordon interview Pt 2
On Recent Films
Salvador Allende
Triple Agent
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sideways
Anatomy of Hell
In My Father's Den
Filipino Cinema
Woman of the Breakwater
Khavn De La Cruz interview
Lav Diaz interview
Dutch Experimental Cinema
D-Light and MM2
Anna Abrahams and Erwin van't Hart interview
Edward Luyken
Jan Willem van Dam
Brief Encounters
Atlantean
In the Picture
So Young So Bad
The Heart is Deceitful
Plus:
GREAT DIRECTORS - Robert Altman, Bob Clampett, Jonas Mekas, Glauber Rocha,
Peter Weir
TOP TENS / FESTIVAL REPORTS / BOOK REVIEWS /
CTEQ ANNOTATIONS
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From: Silke Panse <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Papers
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 09:25:48 +0000
* Apologies for cross-posting *
CALL FOR PAPERS
WERNER HERZOG'S CINEMA: BETWEEN THE VISIONARY AND THE DOCUMENTARY
16 - 18 September 2005, at the Goethe-Institut, London
Organised by the University of Kent and the Goethe-Institut
Keynote Speakers:
Timothy Corrigan (University of Pennsylvania)
Alan Singer (Temple University)
Erica Carter (Warwick University)
Thomas Elsaesser (University of Amsterdam)
This conference considers the films of Werner Herzog in the light of his more recent documentary output. It will provide a forum for the discussion of this work and Herzog's documentary manifesto The Minnesota Declaration: Truth and Fact in Documentary Cinema (1999) with its polemic against observational documentary. Whereas his fiction films have frequently been described as having a 'documentary quality', his documentaries seem to want to contest the category of documentary filmmaking. In fact, the filmmaker himself has emphasized that the latter are not documentaries, due to the stagings they contain. From _Land of Silence and Darkness_ (1971) to _Wheel of Time_ (2003) his documentaries have explored the gap between documentary objectivity and spiritual or embodied experience, problematising the notion of documentary subjectivity. We invite contributions on the documentary in Herzog's films, and the questions for documentary practice and theory that his films raise. Topics might include but need not be confined to:
* The relationship between creation or authorship and documentation
* Herzog's treatment of the traditional subject/object division in documentary
* A reassessment of the notions of fiction and non-fiction
* Issues of staging and 'truth'
* Uses of re-enactment and stylization
* Herzog's concept of 'athletic cinema'
* Aspects of the spiritual and the meta-physical
* Aesthetic concepts such as the sublime and Romanticism in the interpretation of Herzog's documentaries
* The reception of Herzog and his work inside and outside of Germany
* Re-evaluations and re-contextualizations of the ideological connotations in Herzog's films
The conference will be accompanied by screenings of Herzog's documentary work. Please send proposals of no more than 300 words for papers of 20 minutes to [log in to unmask] or by mail to: Silke Panse, Film Studies, School of Drama, Film and the Visual Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NX, United Kingdom.
Conference website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/kiash/herzog.htm
Deadline for abstracts: 30 March 2005
Conference Organiser:
Silke Panse (University of Kent)
Advisory Board and Organising Committee:
Silke Panse (University of Kent), Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent), Julian Preece (University of Kent), Catherine Grant (University of Kent), Michael Renov (University of Southern California)
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The British Society of Aesthetics
Annual Conference 2-4 Sept. 2005
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
September 2005
Call for Papers: Deadline: May 7th
Papers in philosophical aesthetics should be submitted with a 100 word abstract
and formatted for blind review (author’s name on separate cover page). Papers
should not exceed 12 pages (20 minutes reading time). Abstracts cannot be
considered in lieu of papers.
Graduate papers are encouraged (to be marked as such when submitted) with a £50
prize to be awarded to the best one presented at the conference.
Submissions should be in Word format or rtf and emailed to Derek Matravers:
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Programme Chair: Matthew Kieran
Programme Committee: Ian Ground, Derek Matravers, Anthony Pryer
www.british-aesthetics.org
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Forthcoming Conference: Cinema, War and a Society of Spectacle
9 June 2005, University of Cambridge
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2004-5/cinemawar.html
The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
(CRASSH), in association with the Cambridge University Film Seminar, invites
submissions for a one-day conference on cinema and war.
This conference will interrogate the interplay between the events of war and
their representations in film and video. While certain representations
suppress the tensions and ambiguities contributing to a war¼s emergence, and
its devastation, thinkers such as Virilio, Baudrillard, Zizek and others
have turned a reflexive gaze upon our voyeuristic fascination with war. A
search for total visibility through film and attention to instantaneous
fragments of åreal time¼ characterize current representations of war in
screen media. But the thoroughness of our cultural saturation provokes
questions concerning the dangers of such image assimilation. To what extent
is our gaze aligned with insidious modes and bodies of power that
participate in games of surveillance and paranoid rationalisations? How and
why do images of destruction, which are disseminated at the speed with which
weapons are engaged, enthral and mesmerize? How are these images a means to
identity creation, at the cost of certain exclusions and inclusions? What is
at stake in the expansion of a åsociety of spectacle¼?
We invite researchers, postgraduates, artists and those engaged with
questions relating to war and its representations in film and video to
forward abstracts for 20-minute papers/presentations. Interdisciplinary
approaches, ranging across media, and theorizations of war in relation to
philosophical, literary, cultural, political, historical, sociological,
anthropological, architectural and other branches of thought are expressly
encouraged.
Themes might include:
--propaganda, spectacle, truth
--constructions of ethnicity, gender, race, class or nation and the
aestheticization of war
--surveillance, paranoia, voyeurism or imprisonment
--visibility/invisibility
--the moment of death and its media representation
--temporality, continuity/discontinuity or narrativization and comprehension
--relations between cinematic and other representational and performative
forms (digital media, television, literature, theatre, visual arts)
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From: "Bridget Birchall" <[log in to unmask]>
REMINDER:(INTER-)FACING: THEORY AND PRACTICE (UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, 21-22
APRIL 2005)TO ATTEND THIS TWO-DAY FILM SYMPOSIUM GO
DEADLINE 8TH APRIL 2005
This interdisciplinary symposium will provide a forum for exchange
betweenresearchers, academics, and practitioners of film and new digital
media.Through discussion, exhibition and performance the symposium aims to
engagewith debates around film theory and practice. The event is organised
by theUniversity of Exeter and is a collaboration between the Exeter
Picture House,the South West Film and Television Archive, SPACEX and the
Bill DouglasCentre. The programme includes discussion panels, screenings,
exhibitions andeveningevents.Please do not hesitate to contact me if you
have any queries about the event.Bridget BirchallBridget BirchallFilm
StudiesSchool of Modern LanguagesUniversity of Exeter
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From: Adrian Mackenzie <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cinema and Technology Conference Program, Lancaster 6-9 April 2005
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Mitchell and Kenyon premiere at Cinema & Technology Conference
The Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, will be hosting a
major international conference on ‘Cinema and Technology’ on 6-9 April.
Its many and varied attractions will include keynote addresses by
Marie-Luise Angerer, Lisa Cartwright, James Elkins and Thomas Elsaesser, and
around eighty papers on subjects ranging from ‘Animation and simulation in
popular new media’ through ‘The cinematic life of the gene’ to ‘Virtual
acting techniques and interactive cinema’. There will also be a special
evening screening of newly-discovered and freshly-restored films made in the
early years of the twentieth century by British showmen Mitchell and Kenyon,
including a premiere of locally-shot material; an exhibition of Marsha
Kinder’s Labyrinth project; an optional day excursion taking in
cinema-related venues in the nearby Lake District; two receptions; and a
conference dinner at a restaurant on Lancaster’s charming quayside.
The Cinema and Technology Conference website is constantly being updated.
Visit http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fss/cultres/events/cinematech/index.htm for
details of venues, speakers, conference programme, booking information, and
much more.
If you have any inquiries, you can contact one of the conference team. We are
June Rye ([log in to unmask])
Coralie Claeysen ([log in to unmask])
Annette Kuhn ([log in to unmask]),
and we look forward to welcoming you to Lancaster in April.
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From: David Israel <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Cinema Electronica Quarterly no. 1 -- "Lost & Found"
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Frameworkers,
please check out the Cinema Electronica Quarterly --
a new online periodical David Comdico has launched here:
http://cinemaelectronica.com/quarterly01/
This is conceived as a place to show and share digital works,
which will be presented in Flash format. Essays and reviews
are also welcome. And note the "exquisite corpse" project.
Submissions are welcome; details are on the site;
deadline is May 15.
Theme of Issue no. 1: "Lost & Found"
cheers,
d.i.
ps: furthermore, you may note the Cinema Electronica forums:
http://cinemaelectronica.com/
The nascent Quarterly is a group effort arising from ongoing discussions.
David Comdico and Jim Lafferty could be called its primary instigators.
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Sensorium:
Philosophy and Aesthetics
A conference to be held at the School of Creative Arts,
University of Melbourne, Australia,
22-24 June, 2005
This three-day conference will cover a range of thinkers and issues in contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, with a particular focus on two French philosophers, Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze. Offers of papers are invited from researchers in the fields of philosophy, the social sciences, literary and performance studies, the visual arts, architecture, and other creative disciplines interested in the work of Deleuze, Lyotard, or in aesthetics more generally.
Confirmed keynotes and participants include:
John Armstrong (author The Secret Power of Beauty: Why Happiness is in the Eye of the Beholder and The Conditions of Love: The Philosophy of Intimacy);
Andrew Benjamin (editor of Judging Lyotard and The Lyotard Reader and author of Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde);
Barbara Bolt (author of Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image).
Eugene Holland (author of Baudelaire and Schizoanalysis: The Sociopoetics of Modernism and Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis);
Ian James (author of Pierre Klossowski: the Persistance of a Name);
Julian Pefanis (author of Heterology and the Postmodern: Bataille, Baudrillard, and Lyotard);
Arkady Plotnisky (author of Complementarity: Anti-Epistemology After Bohr and Derrida and the forthcoming Idealism Without Absolutes: Philosophy and Romantic Culture);
Daniel W. Smith (translator of Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sensation and Essays Critical and Clinical (with Michael Greco), and Pierre Klosswski's Nietzsche and the Vicious Circle).
Stelarc (Australian-based performance artist whose work investigates human-machine interfaces).
Stream One: Lyotard - Beyond the Postmodern Condition
The reception of the philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard in the English-speaking world has been sporadic and far from comprehensive. Regrettably, his influence has been largely felt through the infamous definition that opens The Postmodern Condition, and to a lesser extent the ironically-flavoured summary found in the 'Reading Dossier' of The Differend. The aim of this symposium is to redress this situation by drawing attention to the large amount of provocative and important work done by Lyotard throughout his career. Particular attention will be given to his early libidinal philosophy, his readings of other philosophers, his aesthetics, and his recent work (from Postmodern Fables onwards). Possible topics for presentations could include: art and aesthetics; Lyotard's readings of Freud, Marx, Kant, Lévinas, Malraux, Augustine, Adorno, or phenomenology; Libidinal Economy; Discours, Figure; paganism; Lyotard's politics and his theorizing of the avant-garde or the postmodern.
Stream Two: Deleuze and Creativity
Gilles Deleuze's work is replete with references to the arts: literature, film music, painting and theatre. Indeed, the aesthetic dimension plays a key role in his account of transcendental empiricism, and of the encounter that provokes thought and novelty. The aim of this symposium is to provide an opportunity for exploring Deleuze's account of creative production in the context of the various arts, and of culture more generally. Possible topics for presentations could include: schizoanalysis; the account of the discordant faculties; Deleuze's semiotics of film or painting; his notion of symptomatology in respect to literary texts; major and minor literature; his theorizing of novelty and difference; and the distinctions drawn in What is Philosophy? between the arts, science and philosophy.
Stream Three: Aesthetics
This part of the conference is open to papers from all disciplines theoretically or practically engaging with issues in aesthetics. Both academics and practicing artists are invited to contribute papers or works of relevance to the conference theme. Possible topics for presentations could include:
postmodern aesthetics; the changing role (and relevance) of art in contemporary culture; emergent art forms; the relation between thought and sensation; the sublime; gender and aesthetics; cross-cultural aesthetics; recent movements within the respective arts; art and politics; the relationship between the marketplace and the reception and consumption of artworks; art and ritual; art and religion; feminism and art; the viability of the avant-garde; Art brut; theorizing sensation, perception and/or representation; art and sub-cultures; cyber-culture; etc.
We welcome papers discussing philosophers, cultural critics, or artists who have written or commented on the philosophy of aesthetics or debates in aesthetics (e.g., Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Hume, Burke, Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Bakhtin, Heidegger, Bataille, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Barthes, Kristeva, Blanchot, Lacan, Derrida, Nancy, Klossowski, Baudrillard, Adorno, Benjamin, Whitehead, Caillois, Genette, Ricoeur, Cixous, Bourdieu, Foucault, Virillio, De Certeau, Badiou, Artaud, Brecht, Cassirer, Arnheim, Marcuse, Debord, Cage, Jameson, McLuhan, Goodman, Eisenstein, Godard, Marker, Augé, Levy, Eagleton, Fish, Baba, Bal, Zizek, etc.)
Submission details for proposals:
Individual papers: A title and a 300 word abstract for papers of 30 minutes reading time.
Panels: 2-3 speakers (30 minutes each); a 300 word abstract for the panel plus up to 300 words for each paper.
Submissions should also include the following information:
Name(s) and title(s) of speaker(s)
Phone number
Postal address
E-mail address
Institutional affiliation (if any)
Special equipment needs (if any)
Submissions of abstracts should be sent by e-mail attachment (as Word or RTF files) to one of the following:
Stream One (Lyotard) to Ashley Woodward <phallacy[at]tpg.com.au>
Stream Two (Deleuze) to Graham Jones <grajones[at]unimelb.edu.au>
Stream Three (open) to Felicity Colman <fcolman[at]unimelb.edu.au>
or to Jon Roffe <overground[at]imap.cc>
Closing date for submissions: 4th of April, 2005.
For those who require confirmation of acceptance before that date in order to secure funding, please request this on your submission (and include your funding deadline). This conference will be fully refereed, with select papers published. Notification of acceptance will be emailed by the 20th of April, 2005.
Conference organising Committee (and contact addresses):
Felicity Colman <fcolman[at]unimelb.edu.au>
Graham Jones <grajones[at]unimelb.edu.au>
Jon Roffe <overground[at]imap.cc>
Ashley Woodward <phallacy[at]tpg.com.au>
This conference is organized by the following departments and groups at the University of Melbourne:
The School of Creative Arts;
The Department of Cinema Studies in the School of Art History, Cinema, Classics and Archaeology;
Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy (in association with the Department of Philosophy).
Further conference details can be found on-line at:
http://www.mscp.org.au
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