[Commlist] cfp: Poetic Insurrections. Romantic Legacies in Modern and Contemporary Film Aesthetics

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are very pleased to share with you a call for papers entitled "Poetic 
Insurrections. Romantic Legacies in Modern and Contemporary Film 
Aesthetics".

https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/poetic-insurrections/ 
<https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/poetic-insurrections/>

International film studies conference organized by the Research Centre 
for Visual Poetics (University of Antwerp).

When: 20-21 January 2022
Venue: Stadscampus, Prinsstraat 13, Antwerp

_Confirmed Keynote Speakers_
Marco Grosoli (Habib University, Karachi)
Richard Suchenski (Bard College, New York)

_Call For Papers_
The ‘return’ to Romanticism in the recent consideration of modernist 
cinemas (see Richard Suchenski, /Projections of Memory: Romanticism, 
Modernism, and the Aesthetics of Film/; Daniel Morgan, /Late Godard and 
the Possibilities of Cinema/) can be taken as a way to frame the 
apparent contradictions in the work of a number of key figures: the 
revolutionary cinema of Jean-Luc Godard seems at odds with the seeming 
reactionism of a sanctification of natural beauty in his ‘late’ works. 
The strict materialism of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, in its 
turn, gave way to reflections on the necessity of myth and utopian 
ideals in the politicization of art. And although the cinema of 
Marguerite Duras is characterized by a destructive negativity, her films 
exhibit a minute attention to material presence. We believe that the 
same contradictions that characterize these works can be found in the 
films of a number of contemporary filmmakers - Chantal Akerman, Abbas 
Kiarostami, Hong Sang-soo, Wang Bing, Lav Diaz, Albert Serra etc. - 
allowing us to align them with the project of aesthetic modernism. It is 
our contention (one we share with Nancy & Lacoue-Labarthe, Rancière, 
J.M. Schaeffer and others) that this project can indeed best be 
approached by considering its romantic undercurrent.

_Focal points_
We invite papers that address these romantic legacies according to these 
three axes or focal points: totality, infinity, negativity.

These correspond to what we feel to be three key genealogical lines in 
the history of modern cinema:
reductive aesthetics and negativity;
revelationist aesthetics and mysticism;
the aspiration towards totality and the persistence of myth.

We encourage contributions that take an interdisciplinary and 
genealogical approach to film aesthetics.

_Proposal submissions _
Proposals for paper presentations can be sent to 
(poeticinsurrections.conference /at/ uantwerpen.be) by the 1st of September 
2021. Please also include a 300 word abstract and a short bio.


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