Fwd: CFP 3rd Annual Yale Film Studies Graduate Conference

Aaron Gerow aaron.gerow at yale.edu
Thu Jan 6 08:57:29 EST 2011


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> Call for Papers
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> The 3rd Annual Yale Film Studies Graduate Conference
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> SENSING CINEMA:
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> History – Theory – Body – Screen
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> April 8-9, 2011 – Yale University, New Haven, CT
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> Over the course of cinema’s history one of the most fundamental  
> aspects of the medium, the relationship between the image on the  
> screen and the spectator in front of it, has undergone a variety of  
> technological and social shifts. Theoretical accounts of this  
> relationship have likewise changed over time, since every new theory  
> must in some way posit its own ideal spectator or wrestle with a  
> conception of the spectator. Although such analysis of the spectator  
> is not a new interest for film scholars, it is an important aspect  
> of the study of film and is central in many ways to current  
> scholarship. The shift into digital media particularly poses major  
> new questions to film scholars and film departments, while film  
> theoreticians are grappling anew with the variety of theoretical  
> understandings of the spectator in their attempts to reassess the  
> fundamental project of film studies itself.
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> This conference looks at the conceptualization of cinema in relation  
> to the senses as a point of intersection between film theory and  
> film history. On the one hand it is possible to trace the various  
> ways in which the experience of cinema as a sensory encounter has  
> changed over time in response to technological developments, new  
> modes of exhibition, and new viewing practices. On the other hand,  
> the current movement within film theory circles, as witnessed by the  
> appearance of books such as Thomas Elsaesser’s Film Theory: An  
> Introduction Through the Senses and Dudley Andrew’s What Cinema Is!,  
> centers on the attempt to reorient the whole notion of a theory of  
> cinema around the relationship between the spectatorial body and the  
> screen. Sensing, viewed as the space in which body and screen meet,  
> here opens up a way of conceiving the myriad interconnections  
> between the multiple changing bodies and changing screens evident  
> within both theoretical accounts and the historical development of  
> cinema.
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> The conference invites papers on any aspect of the sensory  
> experience of cinema, theoretical, historical, or both. Topics may  
> cover cinema experience in any part of the world, at any time from  
> the 19th to the 21st century. Submissions may take inspiration from,  
> but are not at all limited to, the following topics:
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> The impact of changing technologies upon the senses, for example the  
> coming of sound or the current transition to digital media – notions  
> of embodied spectatorship, tactile viewing and the like – the impact  
> of new media upon viewing practices – the experience of cinema  
> within a social space – conceptualizations of pornography –  
> filmmaking practice in relation to the spectator’s cognition, for  
> example in Eisenstein’s work – the impact of live music or lectures  
> versus recorded sound – the promise of the digital in developing  
> countries – the commodification of the senses.
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> Please submit abstracts of 250 words or less to yalefilmstudies at gmail.com 
>  by February 15, 2011. Please include paper title, your name,  
> institution, department, email and phone. Presentations may not  
> exceed 20 minutes. Open to graduate students only.
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> Conference Organizing Committee
> Sensing Cinema: History-Theory-Body-Screen
> Yale University, April 8-9, 2011
> http://www.yale.edu/filmstudiesprogram/

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