<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>差出人: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">ozgur cicek <<a href="mailto:ozgur1cicek@gmail.com">ozgur1cicek@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>日時: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 16, 2009 8:30:21 PM JST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>宛先: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:ocicek1@binghamton.edu">ocicek1@binghamton.edu</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>件名: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>CFP: The Possibility / Impossibility of a National Cinema</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div><div class="ii gt"><p class="MsoNormal">(Apologies for cross-posting)<br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Please circulate the following call for papers for the Annual American Comparative</p> <div><p class="MsoNormal">Literature Association Conference which will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, <span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_0">on April 1-4, 2010</span></span>. <br> <br> To submit a paper proposal for this seminar, "The Possibility / Impossibility of a <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_1">National Cinema</span></span>," please go to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.acla.org/submit/index.php"><span>http://www.acla.org/submit/ index.php</span></a>. For more information visit <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.acla.org/acla2010/?page_id=6">http://www.acla.org/acla2010/? page_id=6</a>. Proposals need to be submitted by <span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_2">November 23, 2009</span></span>, however ACLA will accept proposals after the deadline, until the end of November. If you have questions about the seminar, please contact me at <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:mmehta@binghamton.edu"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_3">ocicek1@binghamton.edu</span></a>> or <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:meht000@gmail.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_4">ozgur1cicek@gmail.com</span></a>>.<br> <br> The Possibility / Impossibility of a National Cinema</p> <div> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">Seminar Organizer: <b>Ozgur Cicek</b>, SUNY Binghamton</li></ul><p>Within the complexities of globalization and immense mobilization, cinema, more than anything else moves across boundaries and travels the world in <span><span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_5">international film festivals</span></span>. At that point, national cinematic codes (if there is a way to define a cinematic code as national?) and cultural commodities, cross boundaries, reach diasporas, interact with different codes of narration and create the grounds for transnational cinema. However, this definition ignores the question of the possibility or the impossibility of a national cinema within specific borders, and under specific titles like “British Cinema”, “German Cinema” or “Turkish Cinema”. From this standpoint, this seminar will explore the current dynamics in <span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_6">national cinemas</span></span>. We will focus on the films of diasporic filmmakers, subnational ethnic communities, co-productions and discuss how these films complicate matters about the term “national cinema.” </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0.5in;">Suggested paper topics include but are not limited to:</p> <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal">National and transnational cinema</li><li class="MsoNormal">Diasporic Film-making</li><li class="MsoNormal">Cinema and ethnicity</li><li class="MsoNormal">Transnational and international stardom</li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1258370018_7">Foreign language</span></span> film-making</li><li class="MsoNormal">Bilingual or multilingual film-making</li><li class="MsoNormal">Co-productions – international productions</li><li class="MsoNormal">Auteur cinema as national cinema</li><li class="MsoNormal"> Ge