Quoting "Andersson, Johan" <[log in to unmask]>:
> Cinema and the postindustrial city
> Call for papers
> Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting
> 8-12 April 2014 Tampa FL
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> Organiser: Johan Andersson, Department of Geography, King's College London
>
> This session explores how the economic reorganisation of the city
> since the 1960s has impacted on the production, distribution, and
> mise-en-scène of urban cinema. While there is a significant
> literature in economic geography on post-Fordist changes in the film
> industry, this session specifically welcomes scholarship that links
> the interconnected restructuring of the city and the film industry
> with visual, aesthetic and narrative developments in urban cinema.
> Such approaches may focus on how new trends in on-location shooting,
> technical innovations (with regards to sound, lighting, digital
> animation, lighter equipment and so on) and changes in the
> distribution of film (TV, video and online) have resulted in novel
> modes of representing the city. Close readings of individual films
> or genres that explore the changing occupational class structure of
> post-Fordist cities (yuppie, ghetto and gentrification films as well
> as corporate and legal thrillers for example) or the identity
> politics associated with new urban social movements (feminist
> cinema, New Queer Cinema, representations of race) are particularly
> welcome.
>
> Topics may include but are not limited to:
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> Representations of urban space/landscape
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> The political economy of film industries in postindustrial cities
> and the role of film/television in the cultural economy of cities
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> Film as urban branding
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> The politics and economics of on-location shooting
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> Theoretical approaches to space/place in contemporary film studies,
> and to the moving image in urban studies
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> The gendered, racialised, and sexual geographies of urban cinema
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> Representations of class
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> The hedonistic city in film
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> Urban crisis and cinema
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> Those interested in participating in this session should email
> abstracts of up to 250 words to Johan Andersson
> ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by
> October 1, 2013.
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> Johan Andersson, Lecturer
> Department of Geography
> King's College London
> K7.42 Strand Campus
> London WC2R 2LS
> Tel: +44(0)20 7848 2625
>
> http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/people/academic/andersson/index.aspx
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JOHN PAUL CATUNGAL
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Geography
University of Toronto
"Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover who we are, but to
refuse who we are." (Michel Foucault)
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