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Cinema in the Interstices

Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media Inaugural Conference

7-8 September 2012, University College Cork

Keynote Announcement and Call for Papers

We are delighted to announce that the keynote speakers at the Alphaville Inaugural Conference will be Raymond Bellour (Director of Research Emeritus, CNRS) and Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia Institute of Technology). In view of this, we would also like to announce that we are re-opening the call for papers for a limited period and will now be accepting proposals for papers until 7 May 2012. Please see the original call below with revised deadline date for further details.

Rather than forming a continuum, film and film history are composed of a series of transitions, gaps and junctures: points where a ceding or progression to a different way of thinking or being occurs. This holds true from the era of early cinema up to the advent of digital technologies. Whether extratextual, such as Homi K. Bhabha’s “overlap and displacement of difference” (Location of Culture, 2) in relation to community and culture; intratextual, as in Gilles Deleuze’s description of interstices proliferating between visual images themselves and between sound images and visual images (Cinema 2, 175); or, increasingly, intertextual and intermedial, these interstices represent areas of exchange where ideas and expression can be freed from formal concerns to yield exciting and unexpected outcomes. “Cinema in the Interstices”, the inaugural conference of Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media is interested in exploring these interstitial spaces to provoke dialogues on transition and difference. As an online journal, dedicated to innovative thinking in the area of film and screen media, we feel that this topic will provide an excellent forum for exploring fertile areas of research.

We welcome proposals for papers that consider the idea of the interstice as a means of addressing junctures in a broad range of film-related areas such as:

- Film/video/digital video

- Web/digital technologies

- Sound/silence

 - B&W/colour

- Language/subtitles/voice

- Genre hybridity

- Amateur/professional

- Documentary/fiction

- Production/spectatorship

- Gallery/cinema

- Avant-garde/classical

- Intertextuality/adaptation

We are also happy to receive proposals that seek to expand and explore the theme of interstitiality beyond the parameters listed here.

A selection of the conference papers will be included in a peer-reviewed Alphaville issue on the same topic to be published in 2013.

Abstracts of 300 words and a short biographical note should be sent to [log in to unmask]. Pre-formed panels (of 3 or 4 people) will also be considered. Panel proposals should be sent in the same format as paper proposals, in addition to a 100-word thematic synopsis of the panel. The deadline for all abstract submissions is 7 May 2012. Papers should be 20 minutes in duration.

Conference Organisers: Abigail Keating, Deborah Mellamphy, Jill Murphy, Aidan Power