[Commlist] 1st International Conference on Cinema and Conflict: War and Violence

Call for Abstracts | Paper presentations and/or Posters

*1st International Conference on Cinema and Conflict: War and Violence |
V OPVC International Congress: War and Violence
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19 & 20 October 2022 – HYBRID EVENT

https://www.ufp.pt/en/1conferencecinemawarviolence/#Call 
<https://www.ufp.pt/en/1conferencecinemawarviolence/#Call>

The history of cinema is intertwined with one of its central themes: 
war. From D. W. Griffith's infamous and technically innovative "The 
Birth of a Nation" (1915, USA), whose background is the Secession War in 
the United States, to the cinema that exposes barbarism, such as the 
visceral classic " Come and See " ("Idi i Smotri", USSR, 1985) directed 
by Elem Klimov, the gaze of countless directors on these conflicts, 
which often transcend any possibility of rational understanding, 
permeates the entire spectrum of human emotions: The excitement of 
victory, the exaltation of the heroism of soldiers and civilians, the 
repulsion and horror in the face of the unspeakable, the confusion, the 
ridicule, the fear, and even love - be it the romantic love that 
flourishes in war, between allies and enemies, or the violent passion 
that takes over animalized soldiers at the battlefront.

One of the first feature films known, the Italian "Quo Vadis", directed 
in 1912 by Enrico Guazzoni, is in a certain sense a war film, "made as a 
tool to legitimate the Italian imperialistic expansion" (Teixeira da 
Silva, p. 3). Not by chance, it is released in the same year in which 
the Italo-Turkish War ends.  War cinema has often been, after all, also 
a cinema of propaganda, used to dehumanize opponents, exalt allies and 
justify atrocities - whether in fictional or documentary form.

But the violence of armed conflicts is not restricted to the battle 
fronts. On the big screen, urban violence is another constant theme, 
which provokes in us a strange fascination. It is a territory of serial 
killers and nocturnal predators, disturbed and lonely, who roam the 
streets searching for their next victim. Horror is often not at the 
front, thousands of miles away from us, but next door, where the unknown 
lurks.

To discuss the various approaches of cinema in relation to the phenomena 
of war and urban crime and violence, the 1st International Conference 
Cinema and Conflict will bring together students and researchers on 19 
October, at Fernando Pessoa University (Porto).

Those interested in presenting papers on this theme should send their 
proposals, according to the instructions below:

Deadlines for submitting abstracts (Posters and/or Paper presentations):
*Until September 15, 2022*
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More info: https://www.ufp.pt/en/1conferencecinemawarviolence/#Call 
<https://www.ufp.pt/en/1conferencecinemawarviolence/#Call>


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