[ecrea] CfP - ?Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking CinemaScope?: The Spectacle of Technology in Screen Media - 27 Feb 2010

> 'Glorious Technicolor, Breathtaking 
> CinemaScope?: The Spectacle of Technology in Screen Media
> Saturday 27th February 2010
> University of Warwick
> Coventry, UK
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference 
> seeks to explore ways in which particular screen 
> technologies and media are displayed and 
> spectacularised ? that is, instances in which 
> attention is drawn to the medium or technology 
> itself rather than simply to its content.
>
> Technological spectacle is not a new phenomenon 
> of the digital age but has occurred throughout 
> the history of the screen arts, perhaps 
> especially upon the introduction of new 
> technologies. This conference will investigate 
> technological spectacle as a possible source of 
> historical continuity and/or site for difference 
> ? thus working towards a more synthesised, 
> complete and interdisciplinary understanding of 
> the long history of screen arts, and the 
> processes of technological change which 
> periodically intervene in or develop out of that history.
>
> Papers (20 minutes long) are welcomed which 
> explore any aspect or case of technological 
> spectacle in any screen medium. 'Screen?, 
> ?medium? and ?technology? are meant in the 
> broadest possible senses, encompassing any 
> historical or current apparatus related to 
> cinema, television, video/DVD, computer 
> programs/games, pre-cinematic forms such as the 
> magic lantern, museum displays, avant-garde forms/uses, etc.
>
> Confirmed speakers include:
>
> * Dr. Alison Griffiths (Department of 
> Communication Studies, Baruch College, New York)
> * Dr. William Boddy ( Department of 
> Communication Studies, Baruch College, New York)
> * Dr. Helen Wheatley (Department of Film and 
> Television Studies, University of Warwick)
>
>
> Please send abstracts of 250-300 words, plus 
> short biographical note, to Anna Sloan:
>
> (a.c.sloan /at/ warwick.ac.uk)
>
> Deadline: Friday 18th December 2009
>
>
>
>
>
> Anna C. Sloan
> Dept. of Film and Television Studies
> University of Warwick
> Coventry
> CV4 7AL
> UK

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