[ecrea] CFP Documentary and Intimacy

> Documentary and Intimacy 
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> A one-day symposium hosted by the Film Studies programme at the
> University of Surrey.
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> Thursday
> 16th
>  September
>  
> Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers that engage with how intimacy
> is constructed and represented in and through non-fiction visual
> media.  Developments in non-fiction film and media over the last two
> decades seem to have moved towards techniques and technologies that
> dissolve the emotional, epistemological and affective boundaries between
> those on, in front of, and behind the screen.  From displays of
> heightened emotions and access to deeply personal events on television to
> the prevalence of first-person and autobiographical perspectives in
> artists’ film and the avant-garde, and from mobile screens and cameras to
> viewer-generated non-fiction narratives, the documentary realm is
> currently imbued with a sense of closeness and intimacy.  
>  
> Papers are sought that consider the notion of intimacy as broadly
> understood within non-fiction visual media, from the perspective of both
> theory and practice.
>  
> Topics may include, but are not limited to:
> Privacy and family life
> Personal testimony
> Autobiography and first-person filmmaking
> Cultural and social taboo
> Tacit knowledge
> Embodied practice
> Intimacy as facilitated by new technology and media
> Artist practice
> Aesthetic and formal strategies 
> Interactive documentary
> Reality television
> Current affairs reporting of tragedy and disaster
> Historical perspectives on intimacy in non-fiction media
>  
> Please email expressions of interest to
>
>
> (h.hughes /at/ surrey.ac.uk) by
> 30th June 2010
>  
>

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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)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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Office: 5B.401a
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European Communication Research and Education Association
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E-mail: (Nico.Carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
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