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>Subject: CFP: Pre-cinema and 'Cinematicity' / 1895: Before and After 
>(UK) (1/7/07; 3/24/07-3/25/07)
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>From: "Geiger, Jeffrey A" <[log in to unmask]>
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>CFP: Pre-cinema and 'Cinematicity' / 1895: Before and After
>March 24 - March 25, 2007
>British Comparative Literature Association and the Centre for Film
>Studies, University of Essex (UK)
>Keynote Speakers:  Ian Christie (Birkbeck); Tom Gunning (Chicago);
>Marina Warner (Essex)
>The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars interested in
>exploring the history of pre- and early film: the previsions of cinema
>as both technology and cultural form, and early cinema's influence on
>twentieth-century art, literature and culture.=20
>Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited on these and similar
>topics:
>* prehistory of film in the arts
>* literary anticipations of the cinema
>* shadow plays, camera obscura, magic lantern, phantasmogoria, peep-show
>* precinematic devices and toys
>* panorama, diorama and cosmorama
>* chronophotography
>* spectators in the pre-cinematic era
>* "cinematicity", urbanism and modernity
>* filmic prose and/or poetry
>* early cinema and its effects on modernist literature and art
>* the pre-cinematic as referenced in more recent film or other arts
>Abstracts of about 300 words and a very brief bio should arrive by
>January 7, 2007.=20
>Electronically to:  [log in to unmask]
>Or by mail to:
>Belinda Waterman
>Centre for Film Studies
>University of Essex
>Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ
>United Kingdom
>[fax: (44)-1206-872620]
>  Decisions sent by 19th January 2007.
>Further details are on the web at: =20
>http://www.essex.ac.uk/filmstudies/Conference07.htm
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