Call for papers--Kinema club #4

[anne mcknight]

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> Call for papers
> 
> Kinema Klub 4??A Volume from One to Eleven?
> October 8-9, 2004, Montreal, Quebec
>  
>     Jumping off from the symposium on Kurosawa Kiyoshi?s films held at NYU
> this April, this incarnation of Kinema Klub will be held in Montreal and will
> focus on the form, function and systems of excess in genre films?including,
> but not limited to, horror, melodrama and pornography.
>     The workshop will take place in an informal format, in which participants
> read & comment on other participants? papers, and discussion is open (to
> include participants as well as the larger film/anim? community in Montreal).
> 6 or 7 papers will be selected. Thematically, what we seek is papers that
> include Japanese moving-visual media and historicize, read, engage or
> otherwise anatomize what Linda Williams* calls ?cinemas of excess?--films that
> go beyond the plausible set of coordinates that classically realist films use
> to frame bodies, information, genres, spectatorship and fantasy. Film, TV,
> anim?, other image-based media OK.
>     
> *Film Quarterly ("Film Bodies: Gender, Genre and Excess", Summer 1991)
> 
> To propose a paper, please send an abstract of ?250 words by June 15 to:
> 
> Tom Looser: tom.looser at mcgill.ca
> Anne McKnight: akmck at sympatico.ca
> Ab? Mark Nornes: amnornes at umich.edu
> Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto: my15 at nyu.edu
>  
> Timeline is roughly:
> June 15?abstract deadline
> July 1?notification of papers selected
> September 15?papers due
> October 8-9?conference workshop

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