CALL FOR PAPERS
The Wild Eye:
Experimental Film Studies
In order to break what Robert B. Ray defines as the 'path dependency' of
contemporary film studies, radically new or reinvented forms of writing are
urgently required. In the words of Bela Balazs 'it will be an inspiring
theory that will fire the imagination of future seekers for new worlds and
creators of new arts'.
Proposals are thus invited for a new edited collection and a one-day
symposium intended to promote experimental approaches to the analysis of
film. Contributions are particularly welcome from individuals or groups
outside of academia. The collection will be unapologetically fragmentary.
Aiming to offer a modern poetics of cinema, the collection seeks to embrace
the widest possible range of unconventional techniques. Contributors are
therefore invited to cast off the straight-jacket of contemporary film
writing by drawing on such investigatory approaches as:
* Psychogeography
* Surrealist techniques (e.g. irrational enlargements)
* 'Cinematic' writing
* Autobiography
* Creative non-fiction
* 'Occult' applications
* Fan writing
Send 250 word proposals for texts of between 1000 - 10,000 words to either:
Mark Goodall ([log in to unmask]) or
I.Q. Hunter ([log in to unmask])
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 29 February 2008
The symposium will be held at the Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort
University, Leicester (UK) in February 2009.
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