[ecrea] CFP_Space and Cinema_Lisbon

International Conference on Space and Cinema
November 28-30, 2016
University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities

*Call For Papers*

The Conference will focus on Space and Cinema in order to examine the
ways through which cinema deals with spatiality, in its bodily and
geographical materiality, as well as in its symbolic and theoretical
frameworks. Heterotopic as it is, screen space juxtaposes several
different spaces pertaining to different dimensions (Michael Chanan, The
Documentary Chronotope, 2000): both mise en scène and cinematic
dispositifs spatialize the gaze, the vanishing point where the filmic
and the pro-filmic intersect. Space is therefore represented, conveyed
and appropriated by the cinematic apparatus, calling into question the
historical, political and philosophical aspects of an aesthetics of
spatiality in a broad sense. All of these distinct categories point to a
fundamental idea: by definition, the moving image dinamizes space and
spatializes time, thus contributing to the changing perceptions of space
and time. We are interested in the concept of space as an inherently
cinematic feature that led to specific developments in film language in
early cinema, and which is still an on-going subject of debate. Its
conceptualization around and translation into the film form has been the
object of many theoretical and artistic approaches, which places this
call for papers in an expanded field of work and research. We aim not
only to look into the object-film itself, but also to enrol in creative
and critical excursions in the form of papers or visual essays that somehow
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promote the discussion of space and cinema (and other moving image
practices).

Potential papers can address, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Cinematic space, place and time
- Building the filmic space: screenplay, mise-en-scène, editing,
post-production
- Space and film genres
- Body, gender and space
- Film and landscape
- Architecture and cinema
- Space and ruin
- Space and national filmographies
- Colonial and postcolonial spaces
- Exile, shifting borders and displacement
- Space and collective occupations
- Outer space and utopia
- Cartographies, maps and archive
- Roads, paths and journeys
- Travelogue and documentary film
- Mental spaces: dream, hallucination, and virtual reality

The Conference’s working languages are Portuguese and English.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
Please send the Organizing Committee 500-word abstracts for 20-minute
presentations, as well as a brief biographical note (c. 200 words), to
(spaceandcinemalisbon2016 /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(spaceandcinemalisbon2016 /at/ gmail.com)> by May 31, 2016.

Notification of acceptance will be given by July 15, 2016.

For further
information, visit our website at:
http://spaceandcinema.wix.com/lisbon2016

UL - University of Lisbon
FLUL - Faculty of Letters
CEC - Centre for Comparative Studies
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia


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