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>From: "Brian Jacobson" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: Deaths of Cinema (grad) (1/5/07; 3/23/07-3/24/07)
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>Deaths of Cinema
>First Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference
>University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts
>March 23-24, 2007, Los Angeles, CA
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>Keynote Speaker: Hamid Naficy, Department of
>Radio/Film/Television, Northwestern University
>Filmmaker: Screening and Discussion with experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold
>Conference Dates: March 23-24, 2007
>Submission Deadline: January 5, 2007
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>The graduate students of the Critical Studies
>Department at the University of Southern
>California School of
>Cinematic Arts seek submissions from graduate
>students addressing the "deaths of cinema."
>
>We are pleased to welcome our keynote speakers,
>Professor Hamid Naficy (Department of
>Radio/Film/Television, Northwestern University)
>and experimental filmmaker Martin Arnold.
>
>This graduate conference seeks diverse
>explorations and concerns on the topic of the
>enigmatic, yet recurring, death of cinema. What
>does it mean to announce a death of cinema?
>What are some ways to interpret, react to, or
>predict such a declaration? We propose a broad
>interpretation of ědeathî in and of cinema, and
>invite submissions for 20-minute papers that
>consider the question from diverse
>methodological and disciplinary approaches.
>
>Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
>
>- medium specificity and materiality
>- relationships between cinematic, analog, and digital technologies
>- the roles of art and industry (political economies and authorship)
>- changing exhibition and distribution practices
>- historical approaches to cinemaís many ědeathsî
>- archival questions (preservations and disintegrations)
>- the ědeathî of national cinemas in relation to the transnational or global
>- the state of film scholarship as a discipline
>or methodology as it relates to developments in
>cultural, media, and visual studies
>- the anthropomorphizing of these issues into
>the trope of mortality - human or otherwise
>
>Selected papers will be included in a special
>conference-themed issue of Spectator, the
>University of Southern Californiaís Journal of
>Film and Television Criticism.
>
>Please submit abstracts of no more than 300
>words and a brief biographical statement to the
>conference coordinators at
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