[ecrea] CFP: "Globalization, Utopia, Film" (ACLA, Vancouver, Canada, March 31-April 3, 2011)

>CFP: "Globalization, Utopia, Film" (ACLA, Vancouver, Canada, March 31-April
>3, 2011)
>
>This seminar considers the production of narrative in post 1950 cinema as it
>relates to aesthetically and politically charged questions of globalization
>and the desires for Utopia. To situate ourselves between these two
>categories is to take our cue in part from Fredric Jamesons assertion in
>Reification and Utopia in Mass Culture (1979) that [A]ll contemporary works
>of artwhether those of high culture and modernism or of mass culture and
>commercial culturehave as their underlying impulseour deeper fantasies about
>the nature of social life, both as we live it now, and as we feel in our
>bones it ought rather to be lived. At issue here is not simply the
>identification of Utopian tendencies in filmic works that diagnose the state
>of contemporary capitalism but also the question of how Utopias and theories
>of global capitalism interact to generate new narrative forms. If
>contemporary Utopian discourse represents the political obverse of
>globalized capitalism, could these two categories still somehow imply each
>other in filmic narratives dealing with globalization or the production of
>alternative life-worlds? Does Utopias persistence in filmic narrative offer
>support for Jamesons claim in Valences of the Dialectic (2009) that the
>worldwide triumph of capitalismsecures the priority of Marxism as the
>ultimate horizon of thought in our time? Where, if anywhere, might the
>mutual imbrication between Utopia and globalization meet its limits? How
>might theories of World Cinema or investigations of cinematic genres such as
>noir and science fiction further interrogate this curious co-dependency?
>
>Submit abstracts via the ACLA website, http://www.acla.org/acla2011/?p=816.
>
>Seminar organizers are Justin Izzo and Gerry Canavan, Duke University; email
>questions to (gerry.canavan /at/ duke.edu).

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