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[ecrea] CFP 16 International SERCIA Conference: Cinema and the Crossing of Frontiers

Fri Jan 28 21:19:52 GMT 2011



CALL FOR PAPERS


Cinema and the Crossing of Frontiers

16th International Sercia Conference

To be held at the University of Bath, UK

Thursday 8 September ? Saturday 10 September 2011


Visiting Speakers to include Ken Loach

From the first, Cinema was motivated by a sense of adventure, a desire to create and explore new territories and technologies in its quest for modernity. Cinema has continued, ever since, to question, provoke, and shock; to push back existing limits and to cross perceived frontiers. The Bath conference will both celebrate and embrace the adventurous spirit of the medium, and will encourage creative and innovative contributions that make the most of the freedom to explore the open-ended theme of Cinema and the Crossing of Frontiers.

For that reason, we have no prescribed categories, but potential areas for debate might include the following:

* Crossing cultural and/or geographical and spatial frontiers: issues of identity, migration, journey * Crossing generic frontiers: ways in which films exploit and subvert traditional genres * Crossing technological frontiers, past innovations and the new technologies * Crossing artistic frontiers between film and art, film and photography, film and literature, film and music, or the self-referential frontiers between one film and another
   * Crossing frontiers between documentary and fiction; reality and fantasy
* Crossing psychological frontiers: dream, imagination, madness and desire
   * Crossing temporal frontiers: memory, history, sci-fi, time travel
   * Crossing traditional frontiers of production, finance, exhibition
* Crossing the frontiers between screen and spectator: new concepts of reception and identification

Proposals for papers (200-250 words), which may be in English or French, should be sent as an attachment in Word or Rich Text Format no later than
Friday 18 March 2011 to all of the following:


Wendy Everett: <mailto:(w.everett.eurofilm /at/ gmail.com)>(w.everett.eurofilm /at/ gmail.com); Nina Parish: <mailto:(np222 /at/ bath.ac.uk)>(np222 /at/ bath.ac.uk); Peter Wagstaff: <mailto:(mlspjw /at/ bath.ac.uk)>(mlspjw /at/ bath.ac.uk); Melvyn Stokes: <mailto:(melvynstokes /at/ hotmail.com)>(melvynstokes /at/ hotmail.com)

Please provide full name, email and postal address, and affiliation.


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