Kinema Club XI in Vienna

Roger Macy macyroger at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jul 21 06:08:20 EDT 2011


Excellent, Roland, I shall look forward to this.
And there's still time to book cheap flights on Easyjet.  Anyone thinking of spending a few days in Vienna before or after ?
Roger
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roland Domenig 
  To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 1:29 PM
  Subject: Kinema Club XI in Vienna 


  Calling for papers for...

   

  Kinema Club XI in Vienna   

   “Japanese Cinema Spaces and Film Environments” 

  November 25­–27, 2011

   

  Organized by Roland Domenig (University of Vienna) 

  In cooperation with the Institute of East Asian Studies, Vienna University, and the Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Arts  

   

  Deadline for proposals: August 31, 2011

  Conference Dates: November 25-27, 2011

  Location: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  Registration Fee: Professors = € 30, Students & Hijokin = € 15

   

  We are pleased to announce the 11th Kinema Club to take place in Vienna from November 25 (Fr.) to 27 (Su.). The conference in Vienna is dedicated to the topic “Japanese cinema spaces and film environments” and will focus on the exhibition side of film in Japan. The conference will be hosted by the Institute of East Asian Studies at the AAKH-Campus of Vienna University, a stone’s throw away from Vienna’s city center. 

   

  In recent years a significant strand of research in cinema studies has been devoted to understanding cinema experience in terms of the logic of exhibition practices. Yet, many film historians take their subject still very literally: they primarily write histories of films, but not histories of cinemas. This is particularly true in the case of Japan. Significant works have been published in the past decades that have helped expand the knowledge about Japanese film history outside of Japan. We know a lot about certain filmmakers and their films, about specific genres, the studios and the movies of a specific period, yet very little is known about where and how these films have been shown and who was watching them. We know little about the cinemas in Japan. The aim of this conference is to take a closer look at the movie theatres in Japan and to shed light on the Japanese exhibition market. 

   

  The conference will be organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies of Vienna University and the Austrian Japan-Society for Science and Arts in cooperation with Kinema Club. Kinema Club is an informal community of scholars, artists, and fans interested in Japanese moving image media established in the early 1990s. One of its most important activities are the workshops and conferences that have been held since 1999. So far ten Kinema Club conferences have been organized: Michigan (1999), Hawai’i (2003), NYU (2004), McGill (2004), Tokyo (2005), NYU (2005), Yale (2006), Frankfurt (2007), Harvard (2009) and Hawai’i (2010). KC-XI will be the second Kinema Club conference held in Europe. 

   

  Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

   

    a.. histories of specific movie theatres
    b.. biographies of film exhibitors
    c.. regulations of exhibition spaces
    d.. labor issues of movie theatre employees 
    e.. Cine-Club activities
    f.. alternative ways of film exhibition
    g.. film screenings at schools
    h.. mobile projection units
    i.. live performances at cinemas
    j.. sound-scape in cinemas
    k.. cinemas and urban development 
    l.. movie theatre architecture
    m.. cinema audiences and movie-going experiences
    n.. open air screenings/yagai joei
    o.. multiplexes, mini-theatres, meigaza, etc.
    p.. film festival exhibitions
    q.. jisshu joei
    r.. advertising of movie theatres, 
    s.. the cinemas of Japanese migrants
   

  We also invite proposals for discussants (a role that may help some acquire travel funds to attend). 

   

  Conference Site: The conference will take place at the Institute of East Asian Studies at the AAKH-Campus of Vienna University.

   

  Registration Fee: € 30 for Professors and € 15 for students and hijokin.   

   

  Side Program: besides the presentation of the papers an excursion to a couple of cinemas in Vienna is planned, among them one of the world’s oldest cinemas (BSL) built in 1905.  

   

  Housing: Vienna offers a wide variety of hotels in all price-ranges. A list of hotels in the vicinity of the conference site or in convenient reach by public transportation will be announced soon. 

   

  A Note on Language: The conference language will be English, but to draw attendees from Japan we also welcome papers proposed and delivered in Japanese.  

   

  Deadline for abstracts is August 31st, 2011

  Please send proposals for presentations to: roland.domenig at univie.ac.at 

  Papers and presenters will be announced by September 15th, 2011. 

  Please send inquiries to: roland.domenig at univie.ac.at 

   

  Homepage: http://kenkyuu.jpn.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=334
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