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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) > >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 > >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 >--- > >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 >[log in to unmask] by January 5, 2007. ******************* The German Studies Call for Papers List Editor: Stefani Engelstein Assistant Editor: Megan McKinstry Sponsored by the University of Missouri Info available at: http://www.missouri.edu/~graswww/resources/gerlistserv.html