Submission deadline extended to January 19
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Deaths of Cinema
First Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference University of
Southern California School of Cinematic Arts March 23-24, 2007, Los Angeles,
CA
Keynote Speaker: Hamid Naficy, Department of Radio/Film/Television,
Northwestern University
Filmmaker: Screening and Discussion with experimental filmmaker Martin
Arnold Conference Dates: March 23-24, 2007 Submission Deadline: January
19, 2007
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The graduate students of the Critical Studies Department at the University
of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts seek submissions from
graduate students addressing the "deaths of cinema."
We are pleased to welcome our keynote speakers, Professor Hamid Naficy
(Department of Radio/Film/Television, Northwestern University) and
experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold.
This graduate conference seeks diverse explorations and concerns on the
topic of the enigmatic, yet recurring, death of cinema. What does it mean to
announce a death of cinema? What are some ways to interpret, react to, or
predict such a declaration? We propose a broad interpretation of "death" in
and of cinema, and invite submissions for 20-minute papers that consider the
question from diverse methodological and disciplinary approaches.
Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
- medium specificity and materiality
- relationships between cinematic, analog, and digital technologies
- the roles of art and industry (political economies and authorship)
- changing exhibition and distribution practices
- historical approaches to cinema's many "deaths"
- archival questions (preservations and disintegrations)
- the "death" of national cinemas in relation to the transnational or global
- the state of film scholarship as a discipline or methodology as it relates
to developments in cultural, media, and visual studies
- the anthropomorphizing of these issues into the trope of mortality - human
or otherwise
Selected papers will be included in a special conference-themed issue of
Spectator, the University of Southern California''s Journal of Film and
Television Criticism.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a brief biographical
statement to the conference coordinators at [log in to unmask] by
January 19, 2007.
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