Fwd: CFP: Cinema across Media: the 1920s (deadline October 15)

[Aaron Gerow]

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> The Department of Film and Media at the University of California,  
> Berkeley presents:
>
> The First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema
>
> CINEMA ACROSS MEDIA: THE 1920s
>
> February 24–26, 2011
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Cinema’s institutional consolidation in the 1920s enlisted  
> practitioners from many other fields and transformed the entire  
> ensemble of established media. Avant-garde cinemas borrowed  
> extensively from a variety of artistic practices, while the  
> “cinematic” became the new standard for both modernist aesthetics  
> and popular culture. Today’s multimedia environment brings cinema of  
> the 1920s into new focus as the site of rich intermedial traffic,  
> especially if the term “media” encompasses not only recording  
> technologies and mass media, such as photography, phonography,  
> radio, and illustrated press, but also the physical materials used  
> for aesthetic expression, such as paint, print, plaster, stone,  
> voice, and bodies.
>
> We welcome proposals from scholars in a variety of disciplines,  
> including music, architecture, literature, art history, theater,  
> dance, and performance studies, and encourage international and  
> comparative perspectives. The temporal boundaries for “the 1920s”  
> include the transition to sound cinema. Workshop proposals from  
> archivists and others interested in present-day media platforms  
> (DVD, Internet, etc.) and their effect on silent film scholarship  
> are welcome. The conference will last two-and-a-half days and  
> include keynote lectures, concurrent panels, workshops, and  
> screenings at the Pacific Film Archive with live musical  
> accompaniment.
>
> Proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words), a short  
> bio (100 words), and any A/V needs. Proposals must be submitted by  
> October 15, 2010 to theconference at berkeley.edu. Notification will  
> follow by mid-November.
>
>
> --
> Laura Horak
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Film and Media
> University of California
> 7408 Dwinelle Hall #2670
> Berkeley, CA 94720-2670
> horak at berkeley.edu

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