[ecrea] CFP for SCMS 2015

Call for abstracts for the proposed panel:

Reading Berlin School Films

SCMS 2015 – Montreal – March 25-29

This panel builds on recent scholarship assessing that growing body of 
contemporary German films often identified under the moniker “Berlin 
School” because of their emergence parallel to installation of the 
Berlin Republic These films seem to resist assignation to either the 
categories of national cinema, blockbuster co-productions, or inherited 
conventions of art cinema, instead pursuing an uncompromising realism 
that dwells in exacting and uncanny detail upon the forms of 
subjectivity, both ordinary and extraordinary, produced within a society 
struggling with the erosion of the social welfare state and changing 
terms of citizenship and both national and regional belonging under the 
pressures of globalization.

Marco Abel (2013) aligns these heterogeneous films with the counter 
cinemas of the 1960s and 1970s. This panel continues the conversation, 
both testing the pliancy of the term 'counter cinema,' and exploring 
various conceptual approaches to unpacking aesthetics, film style, 
politics, and spectatorship. How can theories of affect, the sensorial, 
and the everyday, for example, be brought into conversation with 
questions of political economy and social thought to unpack the 
‘politics of the aesthetic’ (Rancière) Abel attributes to these films? 
Directors associated with this movement include but not are limited to 
Maren Adé, Thomas Arslan, Valeska Grisebach, Christoph Hochhäusler, 
Benjamin Heisenberg, Christian Petzold, Angela Schanelec, and Maria 
Speth as well as a new generation, e.g. Hannes Lang, Timo Müller, and 
others.

Please email a 250-300 word abstract, bibliography with five sources, 
and a brief biographical statement (max 100 word) to: 
(Angelica.Fenner /at/ utoronto.ca)

Paper abstracts due August 10.  Notification of results by August 16, 
and ensuing submission of pre-constituted panel by August 30th, 2015. 
Authors will need to apply for or renew their SCMS membership by August 
28,th 2015.



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