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Call for Papers
*The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference*
Percy Building, Newcastle University, 1-2 July 2011
Keynote speakers: Andre Gaudreault & Philippe Marion, Ian Christie, Joe Kember
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2010
This conference commemorates cinemas second birth, the historical developments and departures that broke cinemas subordination to other media to give us the medium, the industry and the building that we know as the cinema.
If, as Andre Gaudreault and Philippe Marion have recently insisted, cinema was born once as a technology and then again as a medium, just when and how did this occur? What caused film practice, the film business and film discourse all to generate a media identity for cinema? How did we get from animated photography to the pictures?
Possible questions to consider:
Was cinema's second birth a radical short-term event or a gradual and imperceptible change? What was the most significant cause? Was this second birth a matter of maturation or deliberate manipulation? What people and organisations were most instrumental in bringing it about, and how did it vary from country to country? How extensively was cinema's audience contract re-written? What kinds of genealogies were invented for cinema, what genealogies were forgotten, and what genealogies were actively disavowed? Was cinema drafted into bourgeois culture, or did it fashion its own unique identity? Did this period create a lasting identity card for cinema, or were third and fourth births still to come? How did contemporaries register this change? How early did the process of reinventing cinema begin, and when, if ever, did it end? And what date stands out as the watershed? Indeed, was 2011 a good choice for the centennial year?
Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers on any aspect of this event in any part of the world. Please send abstracts, by email attachment, to Andrew Shail at <a.e.shail@ncl.ac.uk>, with the subject line "Second Birth of Cinema," by the 30th of September 2010.
The Department of Film and Media at the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley presents:
The First International Berkeley Conference on Silent Cinema
CINEMA ACROSS MEDIA: THE 1920s
February 24-26, 2011
CALL FOR PAPERS
Cinemas institutional consolidation in the 1920s enlisted practitioners from many other fields and transformed the entire ensemble of established media. Avant-garde cinemas borrowed extensively from a variety of artistic practices,while the cinematic became the new standard for both modernist aesthetics andpopular culture. Todays multimedia environment brings cinema of the 1920s into new focus as the site of rich intermedial traffic, especially if the term "media" encompasses not only recording technologies and mass media, such as photography, phonography, radio, and illustrated press, but also the physical materials used for aesthetic expression, such as paint, print, plaster, stone, voice, and bodies.
We welcome proposals from scholars in a variety of disciplines, including music, architecture, literature, art history, theater, dance, and performance studies, and encourage international and comparative perspectives. The temporal boundaries for the 1920s include the transition to sound cinema. Workshop proposals from archivists and others interested in present-day media platforms (DVD, Internet, etc.) and their effect on silent film scholarship are welcome. The conference will last two-and-a-half days and include keynote lectures,concurrent panels, workshops, and screenings at the Pacific Film Archive with live musical accompaniment.
Proposals should include a title, an abstract (300 words), a short bio (100words), and any A/V needs. Proposals must be submitted by October 15, 2010theconference@berkeley.edu. Notification will follow by mid-November. to
ORGANISATION: Museu del Cinema, The Department of Geography,History & History of Art at the University of Girona (UdG), and the SpanishMinistry of Science &
Innovation Project "La construcción de la realidad enel cine de los orígenes (1896-1914)”
On Thursday the 7th and Friday the 8th of April, 2011, the8th edition of the Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema, entitled TheConstruction of News in Early Cinema, will be held. From the organization of the 8th Seminar onthe Origins and History of Cinema we encourage you to participate and offer thepossibility to disseminate your research through the gallery of this seminar.You can find the call for papers on this link: Call for papers
ORGANISE: Museu del Cinema, Département de Géographie,Histoire et d'Histoire de l’Art de l'Université de Girona, et le projet duMinistère de Science et innovation "La construcción de la realidad en elcine de los orígenes (1896-1914)”
Le 7 et 8 avril aurà lieu à Girona la 8ème Séminaire sur lesOrigines et l'Histoire du Cinéma. L'organisation du 8ème séminaire vousencourage à y participer et vous offre la possibilité de diffuser votrerecherche a travers du séminaire. Vous troverez l’appel à communications aulien suivant: Call for papers.
Pour avoir de l’information supplementaire vous pouvercontacter avec Institut d'Estudis del Museu del Cinema institutestudis@museudelcinema.cat
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