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[ecrea] A History of Cinema without Names – Call for Proposals
Mon Oct 20 09:06:40 GMT 2014
A History of Cinema without Names – Call for P
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University of Udine (Italy)
March 18-20, 2015
With apologies for cross-posting
The Udine International Film Studies Conference is promoting a research
project called “A History of Cinema without Names” which is still opened
to pro
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posals coming from scholars who might be interested in contributing.
In several occasions the Udine Conference has focused on the p
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roblematisation of the notion of “author” and on a redefinition of the
notion of “style” (separating this notion from any property related to
individual poetics and from any anthropometrically conceived principle
of textual construction). In this perspective, it is indeed possible to
articulate modes aimed at understanding authorial poetics as the
momentary unification of features that exceed them. On another level,
genre as well could be simply seen as spaces in which elements of the
same kind aggregate.
One of the purposes of this project is the creation of a new
“topography” of the basic stylistic elements that, while common to both
authors and genres, can also find indipendent and diverse mode of
connection. These levels of aggregation (styles, genres, authors) are
not separated; rather, they mutually intersect, integrate each other,
and coexist. Outwardly, they might seem grounded on essentialist
principles (like the figure of the “creative personality”; or the
morphologies of discourse, e.g. comic, crime, melodrama, etc.). Instead,
they are “systems” whose physiognomy is shaped by the relationships that
occur at a given moment between their constitutive units. Of course, it
is possible to continue to employ this customary topography based on
“auteur” politics and “genres”; but we shall acknowledge that the
figures we shape are ephemeral and ostensible, devoid of reasons or of
really decisive connections.
The status of contemporary mediascape, dominated by serialisation and
“formats”, should encourage such research trend. Instead, we are
witnessing a curious paradox: the more audiovisual narratives exceed
traditional notions of style and auteur politics, the more we stick to
these categories (for instance, trying to apply them to screenwriters,
producers, or even “formats”), as if they were principles guaranteeing
to safe us from chaos and the unknown.
On this ground, the Udine Conference launches the project of a history
of cinema without names, in the same vein as Wöllflin and Valéry
imagined respectively a history of art and of literature without names.
The first step of such research project, which will continue with
several events and meetings, will be hosted by the University of Udine
on March 18-20, 2015. The event has been thought not as a canonical
conference, in which every scholar presents the results of his or her
research activity, but as a laboratory where methodological aspects of
the project will be discussed in length. For this reason, we warmly
encourage proposals aimed at fostering debates and further elaborations
by starting from the question of how a history of cinema without names
would be (hopefully) possible.
500-word proposals are due by November 25, 2014.
Please submit your proposal to (cinemawithoutnames /at/ gmail.com) and make
sure to attach a short CV.
Leonardo Quaresima
Giuseppe Fidotta, Andrea Mariani (Organisation)
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