Call for Papers and Films:
Shoot, Rip & Burn: Cinema's Digital Insurgency
San Francisco State University
November 1-2, 2007
Presented by the SFSU Cinema Studies Graduate Student Association
Keynote speakers: TBA
The rapid development and proliferation of digital media technologies have
been alternately heralded as a revolution, a revelation, and a curse. For
cinema, the rise of digital culture still seems to raise more questions than
answers…
* Is digital cinema an oxymoron? In an age of new media, do "cinematic"
practices and theories remain useful?
* How have new digital media changed our conceptions of what cinema is…
and what it can be?
* What cinematic possibilities have been opened or foreclosed by digital
media?
* To what extent will a digital cinema contravene the politics of
traditional cinema?
Regardless of the speculations offered about the future of cinema, it
remains clear that new modes of making, distributing, viewing, and reading
“films” suggest not only new sets of critical concerns, but new means of
addressing those concerns.
Accordingly, graduate students are invited to submit works that interact
with issues of cinema in the digital age. Conference participants are
strongly encouraged to utilize some form of digital media (e.g., PowerPoint
slides, interactive DVDs, etc.) in support of their presentations (20 min.
max. length).
We also invite submissions from student filmmakers whose work engages issues
of digital cinema and technology. These films will be screened together as
part of a special panel, accompanied by discussion with the filmmakers
themselves.
Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
* YouTube, the internet, and new frontiers for cinema
* Distribution, copyright law, and accessibility in the digital age
* Issues of gender, race, class, nationality, etc. in digital cinema
* The politics of and potential to mobilize new cinemas
* Digital cinema and genre
* Documentary and the digital edge between fiction and non-fiction
* The new digital auteur
* Experimental filmmaking and digital surrealism
* The materiality and aesthetics of digital media
* High/low culture and the digital
* Pornographic digital forays
* Issues and representations of postmodernism and posthumanism
* Digital bodies and the simulated human form
* The role/effect of digital technologies in film criticism and film theory
Deadline for submitting abstracts and films is August 1st, 2007.
Email abstracts (300 – 600 words) to [log in to unmask] along with a short
biographical statement (including your contact info and institutional
affiliation). Please also include a brief description of your presentation
strategy in your abstract.
Films (in DVD format only) may be sent to the following address:
ATTN: SFSU Graduate Film Conference
Cinema Department (FA 245)
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132
Website: http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~cinegsa
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