[ecrea] CFP: Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History

CALL FOR PAPERS:


Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History: Texts and Contexts


A Postgraduate Conference

Tuesday 3 April 2012

De Montfort University, Leicester, UK





KEYNOTE SPEAKER TO BE ANNOUNCED





ABSTRACTS OF 200-300 WORDS FOR TWENTY-MINUTE PAPERS TO BE SENT TO

(cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)

BY WEDNESDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2012


Film studies and television studies have frequently been characterised 
by a polarisation between theoretical approaches and 
historical/empirical approaches. This conference will question this 
perceived dichotomy and explore how elements of these two approaches can 
be productively combined.

Abstracts of 200-300 words are invited from postgraduate students in 
film studies and television studies, for twenty-minute papers 
interrogating film and/or TV history, and how we understand, research, 
and theorise these areas. We welcome specific case studies drawn from 
your own current research, as well as more theoretical or abstract 
reflections on the topics below.

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following areas:

    * Can texts be considered outside of their contexts, or can 
contexts be discussed without their texts?

    * Are theoretical and historical approaches to film and television 
history mutually exclusive?

    * Our understanding of ‘history’: past, present and future

    * The impact of the ‘digital revolution’ on film studies and 
television studies: impacts on texts; questions of production, 
distribution, exhibition and reception; questions of archiving

    * Missing histories: acknowledging previously unexplored 
territories in film and television

    * The representation of film history and television history on 
television and on film

    * The representation of history on television and film

    * The interrogation of the concepts ‘cinematic’ and ‘televisual’

    * The future of film studies and television studies


Please send your abstract for a twenty-minute paper, plus a 100 word bio 
to (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com), by Wednesday 1 February 2012.


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Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre Postgraduates

Room 3.06J
School of Media and Communication
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH

e: (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)
w: http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com

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