[ecrea] CFP: Contemporary American Realism Panel : SCMS - Los Angeles, March 2010

> CALL FOR PROPOSALS ­ Contemporary American Realism panel at
> SCMS 2010
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> Chair: Justin Horton, Georgia State University
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> (justinbhorton /at/ gmail.com)
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> Given that one of the goals of SCMS 2010 is to consider the ?ways
> in which the past informs current practices,? this panel endeavors to explore
> contemporary American realist films and filmmakers in light of a recent debate
> surrounding New York Times critic
> A.O. Scott?s suggestion of an American 
> ?neo-neorealism.? This moniker drew vehement 
> objection from New Yorker blogger Richard Brody and a
> subsequent weighing in from David Bordwell on his blog. Clearly, the debate
> over cinematic realism, one of the medium?s most enduring problems, remains
> unsettled. What are we to make of contemporary film that evinces a neorealist
> influence? Is it simply postmodern pastiche or 
> the re-flourishing of a tendency
> that never really went away? Further, why does the United States prove to be a
> particularly fertile ground for realism and why now? It is the goal of this
> panel to interrogate contemporary American cinematic realism, its antecedents,
> its consequences, and its contexts.
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> Possible topics include but are not limited to:
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> ?Mumblecore? films (Swanberg, Bujalski, Katz, The
> Duplass Brothers)
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> The work of Rahman Bahrani and Transnational American cinema
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> Issues of cinematic ontology in light of digital
> technologies (production, exhibition, distribution)
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> The impact of the web/social networking/user-generated
> content on conceptions of realism
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> The possibilities of realism in a postmodern era
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> Classical theories of cinematic ontology (Bazin,
> Kracauer, Cavell) vs. contemporary theories (Rodowick, Deleuze, Perez)
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> Political, ethical, and aesthetic consequences of
> realism
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> Please send 250-450 word abstracts, a brief list of anticipated
> sources, and a one-paragraph biography to Justin 
> Horton ((justinbhorton /at/ gmail.com)) by August 15,
> 2009.

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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