Thanks to the support of scholars from different countries, we have recently created the Permanent Seminar on the History of Film Theories. The purpose of this initiative is to promote the study of film theory in different cultural and geographical contexts.
In cooperation with the Seminar, the International Film Studies Conference (Udine, 23-26 March, 2009) will be about the theme: In The Very Beginning and At The Very End. The goal is to study how, on one hand, early cinema was defined and framed among the artistic and cultural phenomena of its times; on the other, we shall interrogate its contemporary transformations under the impulse of the digital revolution, namely cinema's links with personal computers and cellular telephones.
This parallel approach will enables us to focus on two completely different periods which are one hundred years apart. Thus, we hope to understand how the cinema responds to the needs of specific periods, by producing, at the very same time, out-of-synch responses to its own context.
This Call For Papers encourages proposals which deals with developments internal to the cinema; proposals which evaluate the impact of film theory as a discourse which goes along with, but sometimes shapes film-making; proposals which interrogate the status of the cinema as a medium by comparing it with discourses dealing with the category of art; and finally proposals are welcome as far the cinema's dialogue and tension with the most recent developments in new media from internet to video-games.
ABSTRACTS:
- ARSENIUK Luka - Duke University
- FETVEIT Arild - University of Copenhagen
- LE FORESTIER Laurent - Université de Haute-Bretagne Rennes 2
- LOCATELLI Massimo - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- MORREALE Emiliano - Università di Teramo
- MUSSER Charlie - Yale University
- PALETZ Gabriel M. - Prague Film School
- RODOWICK David - Harvard University
- ROSEN Philip - Brown University
- SALAZKINA Masha - Colgate University
XVI
Udine Conference
March 24-26, 2009
Dall’inizio, alla fine
In the very beginning, at the very end
