[ecrea] CFP: Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: 1st FEBRUARY 2012



Re-Thinking Cinema and Television History: Texts and Contexts



 A Postgraduate Conference


Tuesday 3 April 2012, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK



KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:


Professor John Ellis (Royal Holloway University)

Author of Visible Fictions: Cinema, Television, Video (London: Routledge 
1984), Seeing Things: Television in the Age of Uncertainty (London: I.B. 
Tauris 2000) and Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation (London: 
Routledge 2011)



Dr Helen Wheatley (University of Warwick)

Author of Gothic Television (London: Routlesdge 2006), editor of 
Re-Viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Telelvision 
Historiography (London: I.B. Tauris 2007)





Film studies and television studies have frequently been characterised 
by a polarisation between theoretical approaches and 
historical/empirical approaches. This conference will question this 
perceived dichotomy and explore how elements of these two approaches can 
be productively combined.

Abstracts of 200-300 words are invited from postgraduate students in 
film studies and television studies, for twenty-minute papers 
interrogating film and/or TV history, and how we understand, research, 
and theorise these areas. We welcome specific case studies drawn from 
your own current research, as well as more theoretical or abstract 
reflections on the topics below.

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following areas:

    * Can texts be considered outside of their contexts, or can 
contexts be discussed without their texts?

    * Are theoretical and historical approaches to film and television 
history mutually exclusive?

    * Our understanding of ‘history’: past, present and future

    * The impact of the ‘digital revolution’ on film studies and 
television studies: impacts on texts; questions of production, 
distribution, exhibition and reception; questions of archiving

    * Missing histories: acknowledging previously unexplored 
territories in film and television

    * The representation of film history and television history on 
television and on film

    * The representation of history on television and film

    * The interrogation of the concepts ‘cinematic’ and ‘televisual’

    * The future of film studies and television studies


Please send your abstract for a twenty-minute paper (200-300 words), 
plus a biography of 100 words to (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com), by Wednesday 1 
February 2012.



For further updates, see http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com.




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Cinema and Television History (CATH) Research Centre Postgraduates

Room 3.06J
School of Media and Communication
Clephan Building
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH

e: (cath.postgrad /at/ gmail.com)
w: http://re-thinkingcinemaandtv.blogspot.com



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