[ecrea] Call for papers: "Landscape and Environment" - Screen Studies Conference

Deadline for proposals: Friday, 10th January 2014.



From their earliest inception, film and television have been concerned 
with the registration of place through the unique capacity of the 
audiovisual moving image to convey the experience of locale over time. 
In recent years, screen studies has engaged with the politics of 
location especially through the site of the cinematic city and 
inter-related questions of modernity, architecture and urban cultural 
transformation. The main theme of this year’s Screen conference will 
offer an opportunity to extend critical debate into the fields of 
landscape and the environment. In so doing, it will offer an exciting 
range of inter-disciplinary perspectives in order to reflect on the real 
and imaginary ways that we interact with the world through the portal of 
the screen.



Martin Lefebvre has argued that landscape manifests itself as an 
interpretative gaze. It is anchored in human life not just as something 
to look at but to live in socially as a cultural form. Cultural 
geography now argues that landscape must not only be understood as the 
outcome of interactions of nature and culture, but that practices of 
landscaping such as walking, looking, driving and, of course, filmmaking 
might also be the origin of our ideas about what ‘nature’ and ‘culture’ 
actually are. If human investment toward space produces the notion of 
landscape, what then are the principal ways in which the moving image 
articulates this process? How have film and television articulated the 
necessary tension between embodied immersion within a specific 
topographical space and critical reflection on the specific historical 
and cultural contexts that shape global screen culture past and present?



The Screen Studies Conference, one of the longest running and most 
successful events of its kind in the world, welcomes proposals for 
papers/panels on any of these questions and on the following topics 
related to the main conference theme (as usual, proposals for other 
subjects beyond this focus will also be considered):



· The representation of geographically and historically specific screen 
landscapes

· Environmental politics and screen cultures

· Genre, narrative and the landscape

· Phenomenology and screen landscapes

· Landscape and television culture

· Journeys and landscapes: walking and travelling on screen

· The landscapes of world cinema

· Landscape and environment: autobiography, history, memory

· Screen cultures within the environment

· The dialectics of place and non-place in film and video

· Site-specific screening practices



To submit a proposal, please visit 
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/screen/conference2014/



Screen

Gilmorehill Centre

University of Glasgow

Glasgow

G12 8QQ

+44 (0)141 330 5035

(screen /at/ arts.gla.ac.uk)

www.screen.arts.gla.ac.uk

Screen available online at http://screen.oxfordjournals.org






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