[ecrea] CFP: The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference (1-2 July 1911; 30 Sept 2010)

>Call for Papers
>
>*The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference*
>Percy Building, Newcastle University, 1-2 July 2011
>Keynote speakers: André Gaudreault & Philippe Marion, Ian Christie, Joe Kember
>Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2010
>
>This conference commemorates cinemas second 
>birth, the historical developments and 
>departures that broke cinemas subordination to 
>other media to give us the medium, the industry 
>and the building that we know as the cinema.
>
>If, as André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion have 
>recently insisted, cinema was born once as a 
>technology and then again as a medium, just when 
>and how did this occur? What caused film 
>practice, the film business and film discourse 
>all to generate a media identity for cinema? How 
>did we get from animated photography to the pictures?
>
>Possible questions to consider:
>Was cinemas second birth a radical short-term 
>event or a gradual and imperceptible change? 
>What was the most significant cause? Was this 
>second birth a matter of maturation or 
>deliberate manipulation? What people and 
>organisations were most instrumental in bringing 
>it about, and how did it vary from country to 
>country? How extensively was cinemas audience 
>contract re-written? What kinds of genealogies 
>were invented for cinema, what genealogies were 
>forgotten, and what genealogies were actively 
>disavowed? Was cinema drafted into bourgeois 
>culture, or did it fashion its own unique 
>identity? Did this period create a lasting 
>identity card for cinema, or were third and 
>fourth births still to come? How did 
>contemporaries register this change? How early 
>did the process of reinventing cinema begin, and 
>when, if ever, did it end? And what date stands 
>out as the watershed? Indeed, was 2011 a good choice for the centennial year?
>
>Abstracts are invited for 20-minute papers on 
>any aspect of this event in any part of the 
>world. Please send abstracts, by email 
>attachment, to Andrew Shail at 
>(a.e.shail /at/ ncl.ac.uk), with the subject line 
>Second Birth of Cinema, by the 30th of September 2010.
>
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>Dr Andrew Shail
>Lecturer in Film
>School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
>Percy Building
>Newcastle University
>NE1 7RU
>http://www.ncl.ac.uk/elll/staff/profile/a.e.shail

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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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