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From: Samuel Willcocks <[log in to unmask]>
GERMAN PROJECTIONS, FOREIGN REFLECTIONS:
"German" film, home and abroad.
In an era when film has become a major determinant of cultural
identities, the German department of the University of Pennsylvania is
pleased to invite papers for a graduate conference on Saturday April 3,
2004.
After the death of the cinematographer/mythographer Leni Riefenstahl,
and with Wolfgang Peterson's Trojan Wars set to be one of the summer
blockbusters, it is time to consider how film creates historical
memory, nationally and internationally.
How is Europe's long history presented in the new technologies of the
twentieth and twenty-first century marketplace? Which narrative
strategies are still valid, and which must be reimagined? Are these
reinventions culturally or technologically determined? How do German
film-makers, artists, writers and designers, communicate historical
matter to today's mass audience? What does a text gain or lose in the
translation from page to cinema screen - or from a German/European
product to an American/worldwide market?
Possible topic areas include (but are not limited to):
- ancient history and new technologies
- the warrior as hero & war stories
- history and the documentary form
- film in the German-language classroom
- star status in German cinema and worldwide
- the "German" soundtrack from Wagner to Rammstein
- marketing Germany and Europe in America and beyond
- world-wide hits and local viewers: the crafting of the "export
movie"
- Der Zorn Gottes: hubris & nemesis in modern narrative
- the film in the book: narrative transfer and the multitude of media
- German Hollywood (.com): emigré film-makers and artists from Weimar
to today
- archaeology and the action movie: historical accuracy/distortion and
the mass audience
- lighting the landscape, sceneing the seascape: Adriatic, Aegean and
Mediterranean in German film.
Please send abstracts of no more than one page by January 8, 2004 to:
Samuel Willcocks,
Dept of Germanic Languages & Literatures,
University of Pennsylvania,
Bennett Hall 133,
3340 Walnut Street,
Philadelphia 19104
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