Fwd: Call for papers extended - World Cinema Now Conference

[Aaron Gerow]

Begin forwarded message:
> 
> CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED TO 31 MAY 2011
> 
> *World Cinema Now*
> 
> Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory, Second Biannual Conference
> Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
> 
> September 27–29, 2011
> 
> "World Cinema" has become a new catchword and rallying cry. It points
> assertively and polemically to what we have all always known, but too rarely
> taken into account in our critical practice as critics, teachers, or
> programmers: that the global span of cinema is far wider than what receives
> general distribution in the commercial multiplexes and arthouses of most
> countries. Film culture in most places has been slow to emerge from its
> Anglo-Euro-American habits and biases, even as the past two decades has
> given us one remarkable 'new cinema' after another: Iran, Taiwan, Romania,
> Argentina, Africa ... And yet the discourses promoting World Cinema are
> themselves not without problems and traps. Is there already a canon of World
> Cinema that is too restrictive and selective? Are we caught in another round
> of 'star auteurs'? Are we paying enough attention to all the invisible forms
> of cinema, like shorts and experimental work? Is the Film Festival circuit a
> satisfactory alternative space for distribution, exhibition and funding of
> world cinema? How does the digital revolution fit into the World Cinema
> picture? And quite simply, have we yet gone anywhere near like far enough in
> our embrace,  pursuit and critical exploration of cinemas that are complexly
> international, multinational, post-national and transnational? This
> conference will explore both the state and the question of World Cinema Now.
> 
> World Cinema Now invites international film scholars, critics and
> practitioners to present their thoughts on World Cinema as a contemporary
> and historical formation. Proposals should address the conference themes:
> 
>   - Politics, ideology and social change
>   - Indigeneity and film
>   - Women’s film practice
>   - Distrbution, exhibition and audiences
>   - Locality and identity
>   - Mobility, diaspora and exile
>   - Cross-cultural translation
>   - Mutations in art cinema
>   - Transnationalism and post-nationalism
> 
> Proposed plenary speakers include:
> 
>   - Nicole Brenez (Sorbonne, France)
>   - Elena Gorfinkel (University of Madison-Wisconsin USA)
>   - Vinzenz Hediger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
>   - Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney and Lingnan, HK)
>   - Granaz Moussavi (Poet & Filmmaker)
>   - R. Barton Palmer (Clemson University, USA)
>   - Song Hwee Lim (University of Exeter)
>   - +1 Mystery Guest
> 
> The Conference Conveners will accept proposals for individual papers or
> three-speaker panel sessions until 31 May, 2011
> 
> Abstracts of no more than 250-words and a 100-word biography should be sent
> to: worldcinemanow.monash.edu
> Or visit the conference website at: http://www.worldcinemanow.com.au
> 
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> Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the
> University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu



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