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[eccr] Cinema & Technology Conference--Call for Papers

Thu Feb 05 14:11:31 GMT 2004


>Call for papers
>
>Cinema & Technology Conference
>6-9 April 2005
>Institute for Cultural Research
>Lancaster University
>Lancaster
>United Kingdom
>
>The Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University in the United
>Kingdom will host a major international conference around the broad theme
>of 'Cinema and Technology.' The conference will take place at Lancaster
>University and venues in and around the city of Lancaster from 6 to 9 April
>2005.
>
>Our aim is to address the digitisation of the film image and the
>consequences of this process for theories of history, subjectivity, agency
>and perception. Within this general framework, participants will be
>encouraged to engage with the dematerialisation of the film image, the uses
>of digital cameras, the forms of contemporary cinematic experience, and
>revisionist debates about the meanings of technology. The conference will
>feature a public keynote address, two major plenary sessions, and a range
>of parallel sessions focusing on issues such as:
>
> The digital imagination
> Changing forms of cinematic consumption
> Histories of film technologies
> The apparatus and technologies of vision
> Cinema/technology/ideology
> Sound and light in cinema
> The politics of cinema technologies
> Technologies of new media
> Other related topics
>
>There will also be a series of related events in and around Lancaster that
>highlight the conference themes in a more informal setting.
>
>Scholars in any discipline are invited to submit proposals for papers that
>address the implications of technology for cinematic practice and theory.
>Proposal should include: provisional title, an abstract of up to 250 words,
>your name and contact details (including an email address), and should be
>sent to June Rye ((icr /at/ lancaster.ac.uk)) by 1 September 2004.

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Carpentier Nico (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
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