Call for Submissions

Moving Bodies, Moving Pictures: Dance in Early German Cinema



Articles sought for a special issue of Seminar focusing on the intersections 
between dance and film in Germany from 1895 to 1933. As two media of the 
moving image and two "silent arts of gesture" (Béla Balázs), dance and cinema 
bore close affinities in the modern imagination and served as key forums for 
negotiating transformations in experience, identity and lifestyles. Dance was a 
popular subject of early attraction films, and recent studies have 
demonstrated its continuing importance - alongside theater or painting - as a 
source for filmic innovation. With its plethora of dance schools and 
movements, the German context offers a particularly rich field for explorations 
of the links between dance and motion pictures. We invite articles exploring 
any aspect of this relation in Wilhelmine or Weimar cinema. Manuscripts (max. 
9000 words) may be submitted in German, English or French and should 
conform to the Seminar guidelines 
(http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Seminar/submissions.htm 
<https://exchange.mcgill.ca/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?
URL=http://www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Seminar/submissions.htm> ). Enquiries 
and questions may be directed to Michael Cowan ([log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) or Barbara Hales ([log in to unmask] 
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> ). Submission due date: January 10th, 2009.

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