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>From: "filmstudies03" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Film Aesthetics and European Cinema (12/1/06; 4/27/07-4/29/07)
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>Film Aesthetics and European Cinema
>
>European Cinema Research Forum 2007
>
>In Association with STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CINEMA from Intellect Press.
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>To be hosted by the Film Studies Program at
>The Ohio State University
>April 27-29, 2007
>Keynote Speakers: Janet Bergstrom (UCLA) and Tom Gunning (Chicago)
>
>Since its inception at the end of the nineteenth century, film in Europe
>has been distinctly international and even intercontinental.  While
>industrial institutions of production, distribution, and reception have
>served (or tried) to restrict cinematic markets in order to control and
>direct profits, and while generic conventions have tended to become
>dominant at the expense of elements that were once counted as the essence
>of cinema, film in all its forms generates possibilities of what Kracauer
>called "aesthetic apprehension" that far exceed those limitations.  At this
>year's European Cinema Research Forum, we invite scholars from across a
>range of disciplines to reflect on the tensions between projections of
>national or European cinemas and the aesthetics of film.  The organizers
>welcome submissions pertaining to issues including but not limited to:
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>*       questions of methodology;
>*       the possibility of contextually specific aesthetic moments;
>*       the historically embedded nature of film form;
>*       film and other arts;
>*       theoretical approaches to the aesthetic collectively produced
>and/or received;
>*       the "absolute film" in the digital age;
>*       questions of film pedagogy.
>
>Please submit a 200-300 word abstract by email attachment
>before December 1, 2006 to:
>
>John Davidson <[log in to unmask]>

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