Dear colleagues,
I am looking for one or two papers to round out a panel (see description
below) at the Kentucky Foreign Languages Conference to be held April 16 -
April 18 2009 in Lexington Kentucky. The panel will include 4-5 (20-25
minute) papers with much time for discussion after, and will operate more
as a mini-seminar than as a traditional conference panel. Please submit
ideas to me directly within the next few days, and I will reply with a
request for a longer abstract.
Many thanks,
Joseph Mai
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Documentary and Fiction at the “Horizon” of Cinema
In 2006, Jean-Michel Frodon identified three major related mutations on
the cultural horizon that have challenged the notion of cinema as a
collective art form of the age of mechanical reproduction: globalization,
digitization, and genetically centered redefinitions of human nature.
These mutations have reordered the numerous images at our disposal, and
clouded some of the lenses through which the cinema has been studied (such
as class, nation, and other collective identifications, or the
philosophical linking of photography and reality). This panel is open to
papers dealing with any of these realms of transformation, but will
privilege those that examine how filmmakers reassert a critical function
of their art. One major recent trend that the panel would like to explore
is the questioning of the borders between documentary and fictional
filmmaking (with a concurrent reflection on daily experiences and spaces),
at times inspired directly by advances in technology, at others by
political or ethical engagements. Topics may include:
Theoretical redefinitions of the cinema and its functions
Mutations of cinéma engagé in the age of globalization
New documentary or fictional subject matters
Analysis of spaces, cityscapes, landscapes in documentary and/or fiction
Directorial control/limits in documentary or fiction
Trans-cultural experiences and objects
Documents/archives/home movies in documentary or fiction
New approaches to filming bodies
Effects of new technologies
Documentary/fictional/essayistic hybrids
Creative artists whose work seems to skirt the borders between documentary
and fiction or who work in both: Depardon, the Dardennes, Philibert,
Dumont, Varda, Guédigian, Cantet, José-Luis Géurin, to list only a few
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