Hello, all. I am posting the following announcement on behalf of my colleagues
at the DEFA Film Library. If you have any questions, please contact them
directly (their addresses are at the end of the announcement). Please note that
the application deadline for the summer film institute is fast approaching!
--Marty Norden
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The Fifth Biennial East German Film Summer Film Institute
DEFA Film Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA, July 12-19, 2009
http://www.umass.edu/defa
Rewriting (East) German Cinema:
Issues in Film Methodology and Historiography
Facilitators: Sabine Hake (University of Texas at Austin), Larson Powell
(University of Missouri-Kansas City)
Institutional hosts: Barton Byg, Sky Arndt-Briggs (UMass Amherst)
2009 marks the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Cold War. As its
ideological divisions and artistic legacies come into clearer view, previously
neglected aspects of East German cinema become available to critical
reassessment as well - and with it, the concepts and methodologies that have
guided much of the scholarship on postwar German film. In this week-long
seminar, we propose to focus on media historical and institutional perspectives
that until know have been neglected or ignored given the continued preference
for thematic and textual readings. In so doing, we also want to use the
continued provocation of East German cinema to confront a number of
historiographical and methodological issues in the study of postwar German
cinema, including questions of periodization, institutional continuities,
conceptions of cinema as a public sphere, and film's contribution to the
audio-visual legacy of the twentieth century.
Organizing the seminar around a series of case studies, we hope to address the
following questions and issues:
* the historical continuities between Ufa and DEFA (e.g., Überläuferfilme)
* notions of film authorship and ideology (e.g., Wolfgang Staudte)
* DEFA as a production model and cultural institution (e.g., KASGs)
* the function of multimediality and intermediality (e.g., television, radio)
* actors, stars, and issues of performativity (e.g., Manfred Krug)
* the relationship between film aesthetics and technology (e.g., ORWO film)
This week-long seminar, conducted in English, brings together a group of 20-25
scholars from various disciplines (German studies, film studies, history, art
history, social sciences, theater studies). Our meetings will consist of a
combination of discussions and screenings; the screenings will be open to the
public (35mm prints in collaboration with the non-profit theaters of Amherst
Cinema Arts Center / Pleasant Street Theater). There are plans to publish the
seminar-related work of the participants in an anthology.
General Information: The Institute is open to faculty and advanced graduate
students. Estimated cost (excluding travel) is $500, including dormitory room
for eight nights, breakfast and lunch during seminar days, and opening and
closing dinners. For further information, please consult the DEFA Film Library
and Summer Film Institute websites. Please contact us directly if you anticipate
that financial assistance will be needed to make your participation possible.
Application Deadline: 15 January, 2009. Notification by 15 February, 2009.
Application: Please submit a 2-3 page letter outlining your interest in
participating in the seminar, along with a curriculum vitae (and a letter of
recommendation, in the case of Ph.D. students) to all four organizers:
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