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>Subject: CFP: Representations of Memory in Film (12/31/06; collection)
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>From: "McSweeney, Terence" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Call for Papers: Representations of Memory in Film
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>Terence McSweeney (University of Essex) and
>Alistair Harvey (University of Winchester)
>solicit proposals for a collection of essays
>entitled 'Representations of Memory in Film'.
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>We invite any academic approach to the term
>memory and its depiction in the cinematic art
>including, for example, philosophical,
>psychological, social psychological, cultural,
>filmic and personal reflections on the
>film-going experience.
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>Just as Jennifer Wise, in her book Dionysus
>Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient
>Greece contends that 'the existence of writing
>changed memory.' It is equally the case that the
>invention of the cinematic medium changed
>memory, arguably, in even more powerful ways.
>The late Russian film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky
>asserted 'for the first time in the history of
>the arts, in the history of culture, man has
>found the means to take an impression of time,
>and simultaneously the possibility of
>reproducing that time on screen as often as he
>wanted.'
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>The volume intends to explore this 'impression
>of time' and the films addressed should either
>be explicitly about memory or at least
>reflective of the memory process. Below is an
>indicative list of films we are considering
>exploring, however, we will consider articles on
>any film related to memory.
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>Y After Life (Koreeda, 2001) Japan
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>Y Ararat (Egoyan, 2002) Canada
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>Y Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry, 2004) US
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>Y La JetČe (Marker, 1962) France
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>Y The Man Without a Past (Kaurism”ki
><http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0442454/> , 2002)
>Finland
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>Y Memento (Nolan, 2000) US
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>Y Open Your Eyes (Amen·bar
><http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0024622/> , 1997)
>Spain
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>Y Random Harvest (LeRoy, 1942) US
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>Y Rashomon (Kurosawa, 1951) Japan
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>Y The Red Squirrel (Medem, 1993) Spain
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>Y Tarnation (Caouette, 2003) US
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>Y Total Recall (Verhoeven, 1990) US
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>(For a more extensive list of memory related
>films please contact the editors.)
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>There are particular areas of memory/memory
>theory and authors/theorists/ philosophers we
>have a particular interest in, but we will
>consider any proposal with academic merit. These
>include amnesia, autobiographic memory, episodic
>memory, consciousness, collective memory,
>prosthetic memories, technologizing experience,
>communication of experience, notions of selfhood
>in relation to memory, Deleuze, Bergson, Hegel,
>Middleton and Brown, Proust, Robbe-Grillet.
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>Please send proposals of up to 500 words (in
>Microsoft Word; the file name should be labelled
>with the letters MEM and your last name-for
>example, MEM.HARVEY.doc) to BOTH Terence
>McSweeney <[log in to unmask]> and Alistair
>Harvey <[log in to unmask] > by
>December 31st, 2006. Also include *within* the
>proposal a brief overview of your published work.
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>The projected deadlines for first and final
>drafts will be spring 2007 and summer 2007,
>respectively. Send queries to
><[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >.
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