'Far From Hollywood'
Alternative World Cinema
Call For Papers—UBC Cinephile
Though there is no one temple for alternativity, no single mandate for
alternative filmmakers, the work of certain directors from Jan
Svankmajer, to David Lynch, to the Dardenne brothers, is commonly
identified as 'alternative'. With no national boundaries or
ideological underpinnings, how do we proceed to map what constitutes
this amorphous cinema in terms of form and content? Moreover, as
international film markets grow increasingly globalised and
post-celluloid, and access widens to films made outside of mainstream
production/distribution systems, how do alternate modes of production,
distribution and reception expand definitions of what constitutes
alternative? In an effort to carve out an epistemology of this cinema
that by nature evades definition, Cinephile is calling for a range of
papers on alternative world cinema for its first issue of 2009.
Possible Topics Could Include:
-counter-hegemonic histories and national myths
-the carnivalesque and the grotesque
-dissociative narration and unreliable narrators
-blasphemy/ anarchic rituals
-warped subjectivities, psychosis and delusion
-the celebration of deranged, amoral and fantastic perspectives/worldviews
-ravenous appetites and the economy of the flesh
-the bartering and sacrifice of children/innocence
-disintegration of patriarchy/the nuclear family and makeshift
social/family models
-juxtaposition of high architecture and the underbelly of the city
Cinephile is the University of British Columbia's film journal,
published with the support of the Centre for Cinema Studies. Since its
inception in 2005, Cinephile has been steadily broadening its
readership. Starting in 2009, the journal will be published biannually
and made available
online and in print via subscription.
Submission Criteria:
-We accept both faculty and graduate submissions.
-Papers should be approximately 2000-3000 words, formatted in MLA, and
submitted with a works cited and brief biography.
-The deadline for submissions is September 15th 2008
-Submissions and inquiries should be directed to: [log in to unmask]
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Iain Robert Smith
Institute of Film and Television
School of American and Canadian Studies
University of Nottingham
University Park
NG7 2RD
Head of Communications,
MeCCSA Post-Graduate Network
website: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/
Articles Editor,
Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
website: http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/
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