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[ecrea] Cfp: Women’s Filmmaking and Feminist Criticism in the Digital Era

Thu Sep 01 12:50:08 GMT 2016






*Call for Papers*

*Women’s Filmmaking and Feminist Criticism in the Digital Era*

*Monash Prato Centre, Italy, 3-4 July 2017*

The aim of this two-day international closed workshop (10-12 participants) is to consider how women filmmakers are responding to the opportunities and challenges offered by the rise of digital technologies and how feminist film scholarship is developing new frameworks to account for these transformations in women’s cinema and beyond. We take the methodology Patricia White evolved in /Women’s Cinema, World Cinema/ (Duke UP, 2015) as a point of departure for examining the interplay between industry and technology (new modes of digital production, distribution and exhibition), texts (style, genre, forms, aesthetics), and audiences (gendered modes of address, new modes of viewing, intercultural and transnational circulation and exchange) in the screen works by women from around the world and from across a wide range of screen media forms, including television, web films, video art, audiovisual essays, features and documentary. We are particularly interested in instances where women work across media and where this work opens up new spaces for women's expression and social action.

Our intention is not simply to apply concepts in new media to the practice of women filmmakers. We encourage workshop participants to also ask what difference, if any, digitality makes in terms of the kinds of feminisms contemporary women’s filmmaking engages and/or, indeed, engenders: intersectional, reflexive, collective, radical, and so forth. How are digital technologies shaping new modes of feminist film criticism and practice? What are the media archaeologies of these new modes? What kinds of spaces/places are these new modes occurring in?

Participants will be required to submit a 2500-3000 word paper by 1 May 2017. Papers will be workshopped at the event with the aim of producing a collected volume on this topic.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Patricia White, Professor of Film and Media Studies, Swarthmore College, USA, and Kim Soyoung, Documentary filmmaker and Professor of Cinema Studies, Korean National University of Arts, South Korea.

Convenors: Therese Davis ((therese.davis /at/ monash.edu)) and Olivia Khoo ((olivia.khoo /at/ monash.edu))

Please send 300 word proposals and a bio to the convenors by 31 October 2016. Notifications by end of November 2016. Please note: there will be no registration fees however we are not able to provide funding for airfares or accommodation.



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