Final Reminder: Deadline extended to DECEMBER 7
Call For Papers
ABSTRACT DEADLINE: DECEMBER 7, 2008
New Journal of Film and Television Studies
Special Issue: "French Philosophy of Cinema" (March, 2010)
Perhaps no writer has had as much impact on cinema and visual studies
over the last twenty years as Gilles Deleuze, whose Cinéma I:
l'image-mouvement (1983) and Cinéma II: l'image-temps (1985) have left
an indelible mark on recent configurations of film and media studies,
philosophy, and history. However much Deleuze has been cited in
Anglo-American discourse, his innovative approach did not burst forth
from an intellectual vacuum, nor did his methodology conclude with his
death. Jean-Louis Schefer's 1980 work, L'Homme ordinaire du cinéma,
offered a prelude to Deleuze's re-conceptualization of cinema's role
in twentieth-century history, and Deleuze's radical insight into
modern constructions of subjectivity and the popular symbolic, has
been extended and reconfigured in Jacques Rancière's ongoing work on
the philosophy of aesthetics. In each of these cases, and in other
works in the recent movement of what one might call "French Philosophy
of Cinema," these writers have provided us with breakthroughs in
understanding the role of cinema in the evolution of audio-visual
media, the repercussions of cinema's widespread importance in the
Twentieth Century, and the relationship between film form and
narrative content.
In order to develop an understanding of the wider relevance of this
movement to a variety of approaches and schools of thought, New
Journal of Film and Television Studies invites proposals for papers,
of 9,000 words, that address the themes of this special issue. Topics
might include, but are not limited to:
--the role of cinema and the moving image in French philosophy and the
role of philosophy in French film theory;
--the legacy of French aesthetics in international moving image studies;
--the application of French philosophy of cinema to other
methodologies of cinema studies, such as: narrative cognition;
apparatus theory; national cinema(s); digital media; genre and auteur
studies; problems of race, class, gender, and sexuality; theories of
affect and sensation....
--French philosophy of cinema and the re-reading of cinema history,
directors, and individual films, as well as possible applications of
relevant concepts to contemporary cinema and film texts;
Papers should not exceed 9,000 words, and should be formatted
according to academic norms.
Please send 200-word abstracts to Hunter Vaughan at
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with any questions.
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