[ecrea] Beginnings and Endings in Films, Film, and Film Studies at the University of Warwick

>CALL FOR PAPERS:
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>Beginnings and Endings in Films, Film, and Film Studies
>
>One-day conference, 13th June 2008, University of Warwick
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>
>"Men, like poets, rush 'into the middest,' in 
>medias res, when they are born; they also die in 
>mediis rebus, and to make sense of their span 
>they need fictive concords with origins and 
>ends, such as give meaning to lives and to poems."
>
> Frank Kermode, The Sense of an Ending (1966)
>
>The increasing prevalence of digital 
>technologies over the last two decades has 
>caused some film scholars to think of the 
>history of film as a complete movement  a 
>period with a beginning and an end.  Whether or 
>not one agrees with such a conception, its very 
>existence testifies to the importance we place 
>on beginnings and endings as a means of 
>conferring shape and significance upon subjects of enquiry.
>
>This one-day conference is dedicated to 
>investigating the various notions of 'beginning' 
>and 'ending' encountered by film scholars in the 
>diverse areas with which they are engaged  in 
>individual films, in film as a medium, and in 
>film studies. Whether addressing observable 
>beginnings or ends (e.g.: of particular films, 
>of filmic technologies, etc.), or those assigned 
>retrospectively (e.g.: of periods, of theories, 
>etc.), speakers will be engaging with the 
>central question of what examining beginning 
>and/or end-points can profitably teach us. Over 
>ten years since David Bordwell and Noel 
>Carroll's Post Theory (1996) pronounced the 
>death of 'Grand Theory', which accompanied the 
>formation of film studies, this conference will 
>also implicitly ask what new 'beginnings' 
>followed, should follow, or are now following, this particular 'ending'.
>
>This framework potentially allows for the 
>bringing together of work being carried out in 
>the fields of film narrative, narration, 
>cognitivism, aesthetics, genre, technology, and history  among others.
>
>Keynote speakers will include V. F. Perkins.
>
>Proposals are welcomed on, but certainly not limited to, the following areas:
>
>    * The rhetoric or ideology of closure or its repudiation
>    * Aesthetic norms or relationships established by openings
>    * The merits or pitfalls of periodizing
>    * Epistemic ramifications of beginnings or endings
>    * Introductions of technologies into, or disappearances from, cinema
>    * Openings or endings in different national cinemas/modes of production
>    * The decline or rise of particular aesthetic practices in digital cinema
>    * Changes in spectatorship caused by changes in the medium
>    * The rise or fall of theories/critical approaches within film studies
>
>The deadline for proposals is 1st May, 2008.
>
>Please send a 250-word proposal, and a brief 
>biographical note, by email to: 
><mailto:(beginnings.endings2008 /at/ gmail.com)>(beginnings.endings2008 /at/ gmail.com). 
>All enquiries about registration etc. should 
>also be referred to conference organisers Tom 
>Hughes and James MacDowell at this address.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
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