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[ecrea] International symposium : “Poetic cinema?”
Wed Feb 07 19:35:15 GMT 2018
*CALL FOR PAPERS*
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*International symposium : “Poetic cinema?”*
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*KU Leuven University & */*Cinematek*/* (Brussels), February 8th-9th 2019*
While the cinematographic aspects of modern poetry have already been
dealt with in a few recent studies (Mc Cabe, 2009 ;Wall-Romana, 2013 ;
Cohen, 2013), the poetic qualities of film have not received the same
attention. Literary scholars usually consider poetic film from the
narrow perspective of extending poetry beyond print (Hirschi /et alii/,
2017), whereas film critics typically study poetic cinema in a
monographic way, with a focus on certain directors or certain trends,
such as Cocteau’s vague notion of “poésie de cinéma”, Epstein’s thoughts
on photogeny, the works of Russian formalists, Pasolini’s “poesia di
cinema”, the 1953 symposium “Poetry and the film” around Maya Deren, and
the founding of the “Film-Makers' Cooperative” in 1962 by Jonas Mekas.
Some recent studies embrace all these references (Coureau, 2014; Sitney,
2015) but still take no account of the more trivial, but nevertheless
interesting, uses of the term “poetic”. Indeed, the question of poetry
in film exceeds experimental cinema, though the latter raises it in an
exemplary way.
In the wake of a recent Fabula /LHT /special issue, which traced the
various uses of the adjective “poetic” in domains other than literature
(Cohen & Reverseau, 2017), this symposium aims to bring to light the
notion of poetic film through reference to three distinct types of
discourses :
1) essays written by film directors to define their own works as “poetic”
2) press articles in which the term “poetic” is applied to films
3) promotional texts qualifying films as “poetic” (texts advertizing
films festivals, trailers, film posters, interviews, DVD bonus etc)
Studying those different cultural uses of the term “poetic” with regard
to cinema will enable us to answer the following questions:
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*1. Aesthetic questions : are poetic films linked to the use of certain
tropes?*
How could we define the slippery notion of poetic film? Has it evolved
in time? Is there such a thing as /a/ poetic cinema? If so, could we
identify its specificities, both thematic and formal? Is a (relative)
lack of narrativity a central feature of poetic film? Can we identify a
series of poetic /tropes/, like occasional lyrical /stasis/, a
preference for silence and black and white, frequent uses of the
voice-over, but also some clichés? How do films that explicitly quote,
adapt or stage poetry fit in this corpus? Do they adopt a certain visual
“poetic” style ?
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*2. Questions of values: poetry as an object of desire and an instrument
of legitimation ?*
Why has poetry been a preferred term for film directors and film critics
since the 1920s ? Is it because of the mediological nature of cinema or
because of the cultural legitimacy that the reference to poetry may
accord to cinema? Which values are associated to poetry as a « cultural
phenomenon » within the social sphere (Jeanneret, 2008) ? Is the notion
of poetry used more as an expression of value than as a set of aesthetic
principles ? How does this notion influence the reception of films?
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*3. Questions of definitions : an indirect contribution to the history
of poetry ?*
What are the underlying trends and implicit references in the uses of
the term “poetic” when applied to films? Which definitions of poetry can
we infer from these different uses, depending on the speakers (the
theory of distance, the primacy of the poetic function, poetry as a
state of being etc..) ? To what kinds of poetry do the various uses of
“poetic” refer, whether implicitly or explicitly (in which case the term
“poetic” can occasionally be associated with such adjectives as
“baudelairien”, more rarely “verlainien”, or even “surrealist”)? And,
conversely, which types of poetry do they /not/ take into account ? What
can we learn from these uses and how can they contribute to a reflection
on the history of the idea of poetry ?
*Please send abstracts (500 words), along with a short biographical
note before June 1st 2018 to **(nadja.cohen /at/ gmail.com)
<mailto:(nadja.cohen /at/ gmail.com)>*
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*Indications bibliographiques*
Chklovski, Victor, « Poésie et prose dans l’art cinématographique »,
/Les//Formalistesrusses//et//le//cinéma.//Poétique//du//film/, Paris :
Nathan, 1996.
Cocteau, Jean, /Du Cinématographe/, Éditions du Rocher, 2003.
Cohen, Nadja, /Les//Poètes//modernes//et//le//cinéma//(1910-1930)/,
Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2013.
Cohen, Nadja & Anne Reverseau, « Qu’est-ce qui est "poétique" ? Excursion d
ans les discours contemporains sur le cinéma », /Revue critique de
fixxion française contemporaine, /n° 7, 2013, p. 173-186. En ligne:
http://www.revue-critique-de-fixxion-francaise-contemporaine.org/rcffc/article/view/fx07.19/744.
Cohen, Nadja & Anne Reverseau (dir.), « Un je-ne-sais-quoi de poétique :
l’idée de poésie hors du champ littéraire », Fabula /LHT/ n°18, mai 2017.
Coureau, Didier (dir.), « Un cinéma de poésie », /Recherches & travaux/,
n°84, Grenoble : ELLUG, 2014.
Dziub, Nikol, « Le « cinéma de poésie », ou l’identité du poétique et du
politique », /Fabula-LhT/, n° 18, « Un je-ne-sais-quoi de
« poétique » », avril 2017, URL : http://www.fabula.org/lht/18/dziub.html
Epstein, Jean, /Écrits sur le cinéma/ I & 2, Paris : Seghers, 1974 et 1975.
Hirschi, Stéphane /et alii/ (dir.), /La Poésie délivrée/, Paris :
Presses de Paris Ouest, 2017.
Jeanneret, Yves, /Penser la trivialité/, Paris : Hermès-Lavoisier, 2008.
Luzzi, Joseph, /A Cinema of Poetry : aesthetics of the Italian art
film/, Johns Hopkins UP, 2016.
Maas, Willard, “Poetry and the Film: A Symposium”, /Film Culture/, No.
29, 1963, p. 55-63.
McCabe Susan, /Cinematic Modernism : Modernist Poetry and film/,
Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Maury, Corinne, /Habiter le monde. Éloge du poétique dans le cinéma du
réel/, Yellow now – Côté cinéma, 2011.
Met, Philippe, « Le « scintillement de la putrescence ». Poésie, cinéma,
fantastique, horreur », /Fabula-LhT/, n° 18, « Un je-ne-sais-quoi de
« poétique » », avril 2017, URL : http://www.fabula.org/lht/18/met.html
Oerler, Karla, « Poetic Cinema », Edward Branigan et Warren Buckland
(éds.), /TheRoutledge/ /Encyclopedia/ /of/ /Film/ /Theory/, New York,
Routledge, 2013, (p. 365-371).
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, « Le cinéma de poésie »/, L’Expérience
hérétique,/ Paris : Ramsay, 1989, p. 15-35/./
Poirson-Dechonne, Marion (dir.), « L’écran poétique », /Cinémaction/,
n°157, Corlet, 2015.
Santos, Marlisa, /Verse, Voice, and Vision: Poetry and the Cinema,
/Lanham : Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.
Sitney, P. Adams, /The/ /Cinema/ /of/ /Poetry/, New York: Oxford
University Press, 2015.
Vertstraten, Peter, “A Cinema of Modernist Poetic Prose: On Antonioni
and Malick”, /Image & narrative/, vol. 13, n°2, 2012.
http://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/236
Wall-Romana, Christophe, /Cinepoetry /: /Imaginary Cinemas in French
Poetry/, New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.
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