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FILM/MOVIES/FLICKS/CINEMA/PHOTOGRAPHY and ALL RELATED MEDIA



SYMPOSIA AND ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS












ARABS IN U.S. FILMS




16-19 OCTOBER, 2008 Part of the American Studies Association (ASA) 2008 annual conference in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico. "This is a call for papers from all local and international university 
professors, independent scholars, and graduate students interested in the topic. We are also seeking a chair 
and commentator for the panel. Abstracts were due no later than 18 January, 2008.


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B for BAD cinema: aesthetics, politics and cultural value




15-17 April 2009. Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference, Monash University, 
Melbourne "Over the past decade, paracinema Ð a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly 
executed B-movies Ð has seen a counter-cultural valorisation of all forms of cinematic trash or 'badfilm.' In many 
internet and print sources devoted to the celebration of paracinema, the term B-movie has 
(in contrast to its earlier studio-era sense) come to mean almost anything: disreputable and unworthy movies, 
low-budget exploitation movies, straight to TV or video movies, and even big-budget studio movies. B for BAD 
cinema seeks to negotiate some of the (aesthetic and moral) values and judgments inscribed in a B-movie culture 
in which films are deemed to be good-because-bad or bad-because-good. B for BAD cinema invites international film 
scholars, critics and filmmakers to present their thoughts on badfilm...The Conference Conveners will accept 
proposals for individual papers or three-speaker panel sessions until November 14 2008. Abstracts of no more than 
250-words and a 100-word biography should be sent to Con Verevis: Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au





ENLIGHTENING ENCOUNTERS: ITALIAN LITERATURE AND PHOTOGRAPHY 
THROUGH TIME




12-14 March 2009. University of Warwick, UK. "Since 1839, when the invention of the 
daguerreotype was made public, literature has incorporated, resisted, rejected or adapted photography 
through language and the written word. On the other hand, photography has, on various occasions, 
re-constructed, evoked, emulated or interrogated the written text and the literary world. The 
relationship between the two has always been that of an illuminating, reciprocal exchange of voices 
and images, words and light. Over the last few years academics and intellectuals have been demonstrating 
an increasing interest in the interaction between literature and photography. However, it is evident 
that studies and research on this topic have mostly been carried out in the fields of German, English, 
French and American Studies. Enquiries on the interrelations between the photographic image and 
writing have often been neglected or underestimated in Italian Studies so that a series of questions 
are still waiting to be fully answered or clarified.

"This conference aims to explore some of these questions and seeks to provide an interdisciplinary 
forum for the discussions of various aspects of the dialogue between Italian literature and the 
photographic medium...We invite proposals for twenty-minute papers in English and in Italian by 
30th September 2008. Enquiries and proposals should be addressed to:







FLOW




9-11 October 2008 The University of Texas at Austin. "Flow Conference 2008 is the 2nd biannual conference 
for FlowTV.org, a University of Texas at Austin graduate student-run, online academic journal focusing on television 
and media culture. Flow Conference 2008 will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: There will be no 
panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized 
around a compelling question. Respondents are asked to submit a 150-word abstract addressing one of the roundtable 
questions as listed on our conference Web site: (http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335>http://flowtv.org/?page_id=1335) (sic) 
Deadline for 150-word abstracts: June 15, 2008




POPULAR ITALIAN CINEMA




28-29 May 2009. King's College, University of London. "This conference seeks to set an agenda for and 
establish the importance of the study of popular Italian cinema. From the origins of the silent feature film and 
the creation of the star system, Italy has been at the forefront of cinema as a mass cultural phenomenon. The 
formal incorporation of music, melodrama, and comedy, and the development of the Italian genre system, are 
integral aspects of Italy's domestic cultural heritage responsive to and influential on film internationally.
Research into Italian cinema still needs to shift the paradigms beyond neo-realism and the canonical post-war 
auteurs. Furthermore, realism and auteurism in Italy can only be fully understood not by narratives of isolation 
or opposition but through their position within the rich vein of the wider film culture from which they arose.
This conference will provide an opportunity for examining what is meant by the popular in Italian cinema, and for 
rethinking historiography in order to resituate the turning points in world cinema of silent spectacle and 
neo-realism.

"Proposals are invited for papers which deal with any aspect of popular Italian film culture from early silent 
film to contemporary cinema. Titles and abstracts (350 words) for proposed papers should be sent in English to the 
conference organizers by 15 February 2009.






POSTFEMINISM AND THE FUTURES[S][sic] OF 
FEMINIST FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES




Feb. 26-March 1, 2009 40th Anniversary Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association
(NeMLA). Hyatt Regency-Boston, Massachusetts. "Please send 250-500 word abstracts (with a brief CV) by September 15,
2008, to Marcelline Block, mblock@princeton.edu(.)"




YESTERDAY, TODAY, AND TOMORROW ARE ALL ONE: Historical Conflation in Film and 
Television




26 Feb. to 1 March 2009 North East Modern Languages Conference (NEMLA) in Boston, MA. "Film and television 
often use historical time periods to tell their stories while incorporating unacknowledged 21st century attitudes or 
ideas within those stories. Equally as often, they use the present day for setting, but draw plots from the ideologies 
or social norms of earlier time periods. This panel proposes to examine films or television series / episodes that 
synthesize multiple time periods within them to explore how modern popular culture complicates modern audiences' 
perception of history, or perpetuates cultural stereotypes, or both. As much of young America now ÒlearnsÓ of 
history through television and film, rather than from scholarly sources, it is imperative to understand how and 
why history is being conflated with the modern day in popular culture. The films and television shows do not have 
to be current. Papers that explore any examples combining multiple historical periods without acknowledgement are 
welcome. Examples: The recent BBC version of Jane AustenÕs Persuasion had the main character, Anne Elliot, chasing 
through the streets of Bath like she was running with the bulls at Pamplona. The film "Married Life" ostensibly 
took place just after World War II, but focused on two women who behaved with very modern, feminist approaches to 
the world around them." Abstracts apparently due 1 Sept, 2008.












PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES IN FILM, ETC STUDIES


QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO




"The editors seek submissions of manuscripts in film, video, and moving image studies. The journal publishes 
five times per year (four regular issues, and one year-end special issue), and is now seeking selected articles 
for publication. QRFV is devoted to providing innovative perspectives from a broad range of methodologies, 
including writings on newly developing technologies, as well as essays and interviews in any area of film history, 
production, reception and criticism...There is no formal deadline; manuscripts are reviewed throughout the year." 
See the Web site for more information.





  








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