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[ecrea] Call for papers: Untimely cinema : cinema out of time ? a special Issue of Screening the Past (2011)

Wed Nov 10 19:03:06 GMT 2010



Call for papers: Untimely cinema: cinema out of time ? a special Issue of Screening the Past (2011)

Guest Editors: Jodi Brooks and Therese Davis

?Untimeliness deployed as an effective intellectual strategy, far from being a gesture of indifference to time, is a bid to reset time.? Wendy Brown, Edgework p.4 Over the last few years untimeliness has become an area of increasing interest across a number of disciplinary fields from political theory to performance studies. The work of Wendy Brown on untimeliness and critical theory, Jacques Derrida?s Spectres of Marx, and some of Jacques Rancière?s work have played an important role in this turn to the untimely. Film, which arguably has a privileged relationship to untimeliness, has often made an appearance in recent critical work on the untimely though this has primarily been in work from disciplines other than film theory. This special issue of Screening the Past sets out to explore some of the various ways in which untimeliness underlies and informs cinema. We are interested in papers that explore films and/or cinema as ?out of time? in any of the various meanings of the phrase: out of time in the sense of running out of time (as for instance when, in the post-celluloid era, cinema is understood as operating on ?borrowed time?); out of time in the sense of being out of step (films or film practices that perform or summon an aesthetics of untimeliness); and out of time in the sense of being (seemingly) disconnected from the present, or out of history (as in film practices considered too marginal, too local, to be ?in? history, film practices that have been understood as belated, too early or too late, as out of step with history). Paper proposals for papers of 5000-7500 words are sought on any of the following topics:

·      Aesthetics of untimeliness in particular films and/or film practices.

·      Films that have, or have had, an ?untimely? reception.

· Untimely spectatorship/untimely spectatorial practices (including papers addressing the ways that changing forms of exhibition and distribution can produce untimely spectatorial practices).

· The ways in which cinema shapes/has shaped our experiences of?and understandings of?untimeliness.

· The ways that film might offer what Brown calls ?a different sense of the times and a different sense of time? (Brown 15), including both the current political times and the times of this particular moment in cinema?s history.

· Film?s residues and returns through various forms of media convergence and/or through new sites and forms of exhibition. We are also interested in papers that examine the discipline of film theory itself in relation to ideas of the untimely. This issue aims to generate different ways of thinking about film and politics both by looking at how film, and indeed how film theory, can ?reset? time and by looking at how cinema?s place in ?our times? is being proposed and understood. Please send abstracts of 500 words to Dr Jodi Brooks (<mailto:(j.brooks /at/ unsw.edu.au)>(j.brooks /at/ unsw.edu.au)) or Dr Therese Davis (<mailto:(therese.davis /at/ arts.monash.edu.au)>(therese.davis /at/ arts.monash.edu.au)) by November 30th. Papers selected for publication will be due July 4th 2011. Screening the Past is a refereed journal and is ranked an A* journal in the ARC-ERA rankings of international scholarly journals in both the Film, Television, and Digital Media category and the Historical Studies category.


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