[ecrea] Call for papers: Jim Jarmusch symposium

Call for papers


International conference in French&  English





The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch





8-9 April 2015, University of Artois, Arras (Pas-de-Calais), France



Organizer : Esther Heboyan



Scientific committee :

Sylvie Blum-Reid (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.), Esther Heboyan (University of Artois, Arras, France)&  Céline Murillo (University Paris 13 – Sorbonne Paris City, France)





            From Stranger Than Paradise (1984) to Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Jim Jarmusch's experimental work occupies a unique place in American and international postmodern cinema.

            On a permanent quest for « things that are firing [his] imagination », Jarmusch's filmography includes the documentary Year of the Horse (1997) on Neil Young and Crazy Horse, a second documentary on Iggy Pop and the Stooges (post-production 2014), one series of shorts compiled into the minimalistic Coffee and Cigarettes (2004), other shorts integrated into collective projects, as well as ten features viewed as road movies, westerns, thrillers, comedies, gangster, samurai or vampire movies but not strictly categorized as such.

            Stylistically influenced by European, Japanese and North-American film directors, meticulously and enthusiastically drawing on literature, philosophy, the visual arts, cartoons, songs and music, fascinated by foreign languages and accents, cultures and landscapes, Jarmusch seeks the « blurring together of seemingly disparate elements » to yield beauty and poetry. He also subverts conventional codes and genres as in Dead Man (1995), pushing the experiment to the fringes of exhaustion as in The Limits of Control (2009).

            For three decades now Jarmusch has imposed his worldview according to which anything is possible in the most mundane situations and everything or everyone is somehow a variation on sameness. Oblique comedy, contemplative narration, episodic structure, intertextuality, and cross-cultural referencing depict the human condition with restrained disenchantment or detached celebration.

            The conference will provide an opportunity to highlight new insights into Jim Jarmusch's aesthetics and ethics.



Possible topics for contributions :



genres, anti-genres

plot and (un)dramatic action

story rhythm

storyline and fragmentation

storyline and repetition

storyline and visual vocabulary

incipits and closures

transitional devices

collages and dramatic tension

enigmas and ellipses

characterization, casting, performance

representation of space

representation of time

diegetic and acousmatic music

sounds and silences

dialogue, solipsism

scheme of colors, black and white

symbolism of objects

levels of abstraction

film as poem

influences, tributes

innovations and originality

humor, irony

melancholy, nostalgia

(im)moral adventures

languages and cultures

ideologies and philosophies

chance and coincidences

mystery, magic, strangeness

journeying and destination

interaction, intimacy, interconnectedness

etc.



Please submit abstracts of 200 words and short bios to Esther (Heboyanesther.heboyan /at/ univ-artois.fr)<mailto:(esther.heboyan /at/ univ-artois.fr)>  by 1 September 2014. Contributors will be contacted by 30 September 2014. The international conference will result in publications through Artois Presses Université / « Cinémas » series. Papers will be peer-reviewed. The deadline for submitting the papers will be 31 May 2015.



Esther Heboyan

Associate Professor of American Literature&  Cinema

Research Lab 4028 Texts and Cultures : Transcultural Studies

Université d'Artois

UFR langues, littératures et civilisations étrangères

9, rue du Temple

62030 ARRAS

FRANCE

(esther.heboyan /at/ univ-artois.fr)<mailto:(esther.heboyan /at/ univ-artois.fr)>





For further information please contact :

Nathalie Cabiran

Conference coordinator

Université d'Artois

Maison de la Recherche

9, rue du Temple

BP 10665

62030 ARRAS CEDEX

FRANCE

(nathalie.cabiran /at/ univ-artois.fr)<mailto:(nathalie.cabiran /at/ univ-artois.fr)>

+33 (0)3 21 60 38 21



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