gmane.culture.studies.media

Cold War internationally--multiple responses

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-05-23T19:33:34

From: Paul Schulte <dagda2< at >cox.net>

Another one to try is the very funny British film - The Mouse That Roared.

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From: *D. J. Wolpert* <djw88< at >cam.ac.uk>

Hi,
A couple come to mind:

Weg ohne Umkehr, Victor Vicas, West Germany 1953
Vstrecha na Elbe, Grigori Aleksandrov, USSR 1949
Der geteilte Himmel, Konrad Wolf, East Germany 1964

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From: *Michael Lima* <mlima6< at >cogeco.ca>

In case this has not been mentioned, two classic films made during the Cold
War era include: "Man of Marble" (Poland. 1976) and "Man of Iron" (Poland,
1981) -  both films directed by Andrzej Wajda.
Best,
Michael Lima.

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Trois Couleurs: Rouge

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-05-22T20:54:50

From: Norman Holland <normholland< at >gmail.com>

Hi, all, I've just posted my reading of *Trois Couleurs: Rouge* rounding
out Kieslowski's celebrated trilogy.  It's at:

www.asharperfocus.com/Red.html

                      --With warm regards,

                                          Norm Holland
normholland( at )gmail.com

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what is mise-en-scene--several responses

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-05-22T14:02:55

From: Henry M. Taylor <henry.taylor< at >gmx.net>

make

In German, this problem is avoided by calling it 'vorfilmisch' - which
covers both senses of the pro- and pre-filmic. But 'profilmic' is
definitely the more common term in English.

H

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From: Roger Almendarez <rog.almendarez< at >gmail.com>

The term is definitely pro-filmic, but I chose "pre-filmic" as a reference
to the OP's question. Thank you for clearing that up!

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From: Michael Fitzgerald <fitzrite< at >comcast.net

I think "pro-filmic" is intended to mean what is in FRONT of the camera, but
either way makes sense.

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Frames Cinema Journal Issue 3: Promotional Materials Date: 17 May, 2013 11:31:10 AM EDT

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-05-19T20:12:01

<ss98< at >st-andrews.ac.uk>
From: Sarah Soliman <ss98< at >st-andrews.ac.uk>

*Frames Cinema Journal* is excited to launch our newest issue, now
available online <http://framescinemajournal.com/>. Guest edited by Dr.
Keith M. Johnston (University of East Anglia), this themed issue focuses on
an examination of promotional materials. In addition to the engaging
articles from our contributors, this issue of *Frames* also features a
series of interviews with producers and writers in the field of trailers.

*Frames Issue 3: Promotional Materials
*http://framescinemajournal.com

Keith M. Johnston
Still Coming Soon? Studying Promotional
Materials<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/introduction-still-coming-soon-studying-promotional-materials/>

Frederick Greene
Working in the World of Propaganda: Early Trailers & Modern Discourses of
Social Control<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/working-in-the-world-of-propaganda-early-trailers-modern-discourses-of-social-control/>

Leon Gurevitch
The Advertising Director as Coming Attraction: Television Advertising as
Hollywood Business Card in the Age of Digital
Distribution<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/working-in-the-world-of-propaganda-early-trailers-modern-discourses-of-social-control/>


Daniel Hesford
'Action... Suspense... Emotion!': The Trailer as Cinematic
Performance<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/action-suspense-emotion-the-trailer-as-cinematic-performance/>

Colleen Laird
Imagining a Female Filmmaker: The Director Personas of Nishikawa Miwa and
Ogigami Naoko<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/imaging-a-female-filmmaker/>

Enrica Picarelli
Aspirational paratexts: The case of "quality openers" in TV
promotion<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/aspirational-paratexts-the-case-of-quality-openers-in-tv-promotion-2/>

Ellen Wright
'Glamorous Bait for an Amorous Killer!': How post-war audiences were Lured
by Lucille and the working-girl
investigator<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/glamorous-bait-for-an-amorous-killer/>

Jonathan Wroot
DVD Special Features and Stage Greetings: Whose Promotional Material Is It
Anyway?
<http://framescinemajournal.com/article/dvd-special-features-and-stage-greetings-whose-promotional-material-is-it-anyway-2/>

Best Wishes,
Sarah Soliman and Kathleen Scott
University of St Andrews

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FYI: Norman Holland on Chaplin, THE KID

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-07T15:47:32

From: Norman Holland [normholland< at >gmail.com]

Subject: Chaplin, THE KID

Hi,

I've just posted my reading of Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic THE KID at:

<http://www.asharperfocus.com/TheKid.html>

And you'll find readings of lots of other classics at:

<http://www.asharperfocus.com>

Enjoy!, Norm Holland
normholland< at >gmail.com

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Alternative text to Downing et al, "Questioning the Media"

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-04T22:19:42

From: Thomas B. Grochowski <tgrochowski< at >earthlink.net<mailto:tgrochowski< at >earthlink.net>>

I'm teaching a junior-level course in media criticism, and for years I've used the Downing et al text, Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction. I still find it the most useful thing I do for introducing the theoretical perspectives to cover in the course (semiotics, audience studies, feminism, etc.), but the one weakness of the book is that the most recent edition is nearly 20 years old, and I believe that I need to find something like it but more contemporary. I'm not too crazy about the larger anthologies because they tend to be absurdly expensive. And just to give you a similar title that I used to like: the Dines and Humez Gender Race and Class in Media was a useful supplement and even a possible alternative, but more recent editions have been frankly disappointing. That's the kind of thing I'd like, if I could get one reasonably priced. I have been supplementing the Downing with additional relevant readings, which I would be okay doing again this summer, but I was curious as to what anyone else would suggest. Thanks.

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Alternative text to Downing et al, "Questioning the Media"

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-04T22:55:34

From: Thomas B. Grochowski <tgrochowski< at >earthlink.net>

I'm teaching a junior-level course in media criticism, and for years I've used the Downing et al text, Questioning the Media: A Critical Introduction. I still find it the most useful thing I do for introducing the theoretical perspectives to cover in the course (semiotics, audience studies, feminism, etc.), but the one weakness of the book is that the most recent edition is nearly 20 years old, and I believe that I need to find something like it but more contemporary. I'm not too crazy about the larger anthologies because they tend to be absurdly expensive. And just to give you a similar title that I used to like: the Dines and Humez Gender Race and Class in Media was a useful supplement and even a possible alternative, but more recent editions have been frankly disappointing. That's the kind of thing I'd like, if I could get one reasonably priced. I have been supplementing the Downing with additional relevant readings, which I would be okay doing again this summer, but I was curious as to what anyone else would suggest. Thanks.

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FYI: A is for Arab Exhibit by Jack Shaheen at University of North Texas

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-03T17:05:33

From: Stockdale, Nancy [stockdale< at >unt.edu]

A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture

The traveling exhibition of the Jack G. Shaheen Archive at New York University is coming to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas! The exhibit will be free and open to the public, housed in the Forum at Willis Library, May 9th – May 23rd, 2013, on the UNT Denton campus.

For more information about the exhibit, please visit http://www.apa.nyu.edu/SHAHEEN

For more information about the exhibit at UNT, please contact Ms. Diana Leilani Fonner at 940-369-7778 or Dr. Nancy L. Stockdale at stockdale< at >unt.edu.

Join our Facebook Page & Event at https://www.facebook.com/AIsForArabAtUnt

For a map of the UNT campus (including parking information), please visit http://maps.unt.edu/sites/all/themes/unt/UNT_Campus_Map.pdf

From the archive:

“The exotic harem maiden. The oil sheikh. The nomadic desert dweller. The enraged terrorist. How have Arabs been portrayed on screen? In comic books and editorial cartoons? In children's books and romance novels? And how do these representations shape public perceptions and affect people of all races, ethnicities, religions, and nationalities?

In the 1970s, renowned professor, author, and cultural consultant Dr. Jack G. Shaheen asked himself these same questions after identifying dehumanizing representations of Arabs in his children's books, cartoons, and toys. Deciding that these depictions demanded interrogation, Dr. Shaheen, with the help of his wife, Bernice Shaheen, dedicated his life to collecting and challenging images that maligned Arabs by casting them as the cultural 'other.' A is for Arab: Stereotypes in U.S. Popular Culture highlights and contextualizes the anti-Arab stereotypes documented by the Jack G. Shaheen Archive, now housed at New York University's Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives.

Containing nearly 3,000 moving images including motion pictures, cartoons, newsreels, and television programs, as well as editorial cartoons, advertisements, books, magazines, comic books, toys, and games, the Jack G. Shaheen archive reveals U.S. representations of Arabs from the early-20th century to the present.”

Please join us at UNT for this historic presentation of Jack G. Shaheen's traveling exhibition, A is for Arab!
--
Dr. Nancy L. Stockdale
Associate Professor, Middle Eastern History
and Faculty Affiliate, Contemporary Arab & Muslim Cultural Studies Institute
Department of History
University of North Texas
1155 Union Circle #310650
Denton, Texas  76203 USA
stockdale< at >unt.edu
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IMAGES (3) - Images of the City Conference: CFP

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-03T14:43:45

From: hbla-kufstein< at >gmx.at [hbla-kufstein< at >gmx.at]

Please, publish our IMAGES project CfP for our conference IMAGES (III) - Images of the City on your list. Thanks!

veronika bernard and serhan oksay

IMAGES (3) - Images of the City Conference: CFP

After the conferences IMAGES (I) – Films as Spaces of Cultural Encounters (2011) and IMAGES (II) – Images of the Poor (2012) the IMAGES project is planning to focus on images of the city in its 2013 conference IMAGES (III) – Images of the City.
Recent statistics say that by the turn of the years 2012/13 world population reached the approx. number of 7.1 billion (milliard) people, and the United Nations estimate that by 2025 this number will have climbed to 8.17 billion (milliard). According to Germany based Stiftung Weltbevölkerung presently about every second world citizen lives in an urban environment; this number having climbed to an estimated third of population worldwide by 2050.
On the other hand statistics point out that the increase in urban population is mainly due to migration movements leading people from very diverse backgrounds into urban environments; most of them seeing the city as kind of a “safe haven” of any sort. As a consequence of these processes the urban environment is undergoing a constant development and change.
Regarding this fact the IMAGES project has decided to discuss the (historically) changing shaping, representation and perceptions of the city as a cultural concept (i.e. the changing images of the city) in its 2013 conference IMAGES (III) – Images of the City; the urban concept creating a sheer unlimited number of potential cases of cultural encounters ranging from architectonical realisations of ideologically motivated views of the world to the development of certain representation practices of cityscapes in photography and the arts, and the (virtual) discussions of concepts and strategies conveyed by urban concepts in fiction; all providing the public with realisations of political and related ideas of all sorts and thus linking the concept of urbanity to a whole range of socially relevant fields like politics, communication, culture, and migration.
In order to discuss issues like the above IMAGES (III) – Images of the City invites scholars, but also architects, photographers, writers, artists and filmmakers to propose papers in the following fields of research and interest:


  *   The relative definition of urbanity
  *   The psychology of feeling urban or/ and rural
  *   Cityscapes as statements
  *   The impact of the media (news, internet, daily soaps) on the perception of urbanity/ urban life style
  *   Images of the city/ urbanity in feature films (present and past)
  *   Images of the city/ urbanity in the Arts (present and past)
  *   The city/ urbanity as seen by photographers (present and past)
  *   Images of the city/ urbanity in literature (present and past)
  *   Images of the city/ urbanity as an issue of a developed civil society (including aspects like migration, social marginalization)



The conference IMAGES (III) – Images of the City is planned as a 2-3 days interdisciplinary international conference.
It will bring together senior scholars with PhD students, postdoctoral academics, and members of the artistic community without following the classical keynote speaker pattern but rather inviting all speakers either to present their research findings in 20 minute (paper) presentations plus 10 minutes for discussion or in 120-150 minute panels (4-5 panellists).
There will be no parallel sessions. All sessions will be plenary sessions.

The conference language is English.


Selected articles of each session/ field of research will be published as a volume of conference proceedings. Münster, Berlin, Vienna and New York based LIT Verlag has already declared strong interest in publishing the conference proceedings. The publication will provide space for black-and-white illustrations.

At the time of the conference the IMAGES project 2013-2014 exhibitions “Images of the City” and “Images of Istanbul” will be showing.


Conference site and date:

Istanbul, Austrian Cultural Forum, 2-3 days 30 October-1 November 2013


Deadline for paper proposals:

30 June 2013 (24.00 MET)

Please, send paper proposals to images-1< at >gmx.at and cc them to veronika.bernard< at >uibk.ac.at and serhano< at >serhanoksay.com


Deadline for paper submission (for publication in conference proceedings):

1 month after conference


Planned date of publication of conference proceedings: March – June 2014

Please, also visit the IMAGES project on ebay, where we regularly put remaining copies of recent IMAGES project publications on auction: http://myworld.ebay.de/images-projekt/?_trksid=p4340.l2559

IMAGES project directors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan Oksay (free lance researcher, Istanbul/ Turkey)

IMAGES (III) – Images of the City conference organizing committee (in alphabetical order):
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veronika Bernard (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck/ Austria)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan Oksay (free lance researcher, Istanbul/ Turkey)
Ass. Prof. Dr. Hatice Övgü Tüzün (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey)
Prof. Dr. Gönül Ücele (Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul/ Turkey)

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Reminder: deadline for the conference "Rethinking Intermediality in the Digital Age" is approaching

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-03T14:18:49

From: Ágnes Pethő [petho.agnes< at >gmail.com]

For all those who are currently researching topics related to
intermediality and/or digital media, I am sending this gentle reminder that
the deadline is approaching for our upcoming conference.
Read the CFP below:

CALL FOR PAPERS

*RETHINKING INTERMEDIALITY IN THE DIGITAL AGE*

International Conference:* 24-26 October, 2013*, Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
Sapientia University
*deadline for applications:* *20 May, 2013.*

In the past decades "intermediality" has proved to be one of the most
productive terms in the domain of humanities. Although the ideas regarding
media connections may be traced back to the poetics of the Romantics or
even further back in time, it was the accelerated multiplication of media
themselves becoming our daily experience in the second half of the
twentieth century that propelled the term to a wide attention in a great
number of fields (communication and cultural studies, philosophy, theories
of literature and music, art history, cinema studies, etc.) where it
generated an impressive number of analyses and theoretical discussions.
"Intermediality is in" („Intermedialität ist in"), declared one of its
pioneering theorists, Joachim Paech, at the end of the 1990s. However, we
may also note, that since then other theoretical approaches introduced even
newer perspectives that have not only revitalized the study of media
phenomena in general but have specifically targeted the emerging new
problematics raised by the new electronic media. Facing the challenge of
the daily experiences of the digital age, discussions of media differences
or ‘dialogues' highlighting the ‘inter,' the ‘gap,' the ‘in-between,' the
‘incommensurability' between media are currently being replaced by
discourses of the ‘enter' or ‘immersion,' and the ‘network logic' of a
‘convergence culture' in which we have a "free flow of content over
different media platforms" (Henry Jenkins). At the same time the turn
towards the corporeality of perception in all aspects of communication has
also shifted the attention from the ‘interaction of media' towards the
‘interaction with media,' from the idea of ‘media borders' towards the
analysis of the blurring of perception between media and reality, of humans
and machines - media being perceived more and more not as a form of
representation but as an environment and as a means to ‘augment' reality.
Nowadays media continuously mutate, relocate and expand, while connections
between ‘old' and ‘new' media are being established with incredible
fluidity. Accordingly, we may ask: what are the new perspectives for
intermedial research in the digital age? While media are continuously
changing and expanding, how can we relocate the "in-between"? If we
consider ‘intermediality' first and foremost - as suggested by Jürgen E.
Müller - as a "research concept" (Suchbegriff), how can this concept be
effectively applied to the media we see around us today? And if we believe
that the "ecosystem" of contemporary media can be understood not as a
unified digital environment that nullifies differences, but as a thriving
and highly diversified, "multisensory milieu" (Jacques Rancière) that poses
new challenges both for the consumer/producer and the theorist, how can we
address these challenges? How do media differences persist and how do these
differences still matter despite voices advocating the so called
"post-medium condition"?
As the former Nordic Society for Intermedial Studies launches its own
expanded, international format (International Society for Intermedial
Studies/ISIS), we think it is timely to address once more the major issues
for which this society exists, and to invite participants to examine new
forms of ‘intermedialities.' In doing so participants may address a broad
range of questions relating to ‘old media' and ‘new media,' and their
possible interactions, focusing on the wide array of intermedia phenomena
and new type of relationships that new media have produced, but also on how
pre-digital media relations can be re-evaluated, and how historical
paradigms of intermediality may already be distinguishable viewed from the
standpoint of the contemporary media landscape.

Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following questions
either from a theoretical point of view or through concrete analyses:

* Media on the move? Media relations produced by expansions and relocations
of media (e.g. "the virtual life of film," the expansions of the
"photographic" and of the "cinematic" over other media, e-literature,
etc.), the emergence of mobile screens, the fact that media use is more and
more related to moving in the literal sense of the word: mobility and
navigation.

* Relocating the ‘in-between': intermediality, inter-sensuality,
multimodality and interactivity, assessing the contribution of cognitive
theories (and neuroscience), phenomenology and post-phenomenology to the
study of understanding interactions of media and interactions with multiple
media.

* Performing in (new) intermedial spaces: intermedial performance in art
and society. Being ‘in touch' with reality - being ‘in touch with media:'
researching new (trans)media practices.

* Intermediality and new forms of digital storytelling: new perspectives in
transmedial narratology, new media and narratology (e.g. narrativity and
e-platforms, games versus "old" media etc.), the aesthetics of the
intermedia flow, of complex, network narratives generated by the
experiences of the new media age.

* Modelling and mapping intermedialities: historical paradigms of
intermedial relations (pre-modern, modern, post-modern intermediality); the
aesthetics and ‘politics' of intermediality before and after the digital
age; historical research on intermediality related to media migration,
cultural heritage and changing relationships between production,
distribution, and perception.


Confirmed keynote speakers:

* HENRY JENKINS, University of Southern California (USA), author of
Convergence Culture: where Old and New Media Collide (2007), currently
co-authoring a book on "Spreadable Media <http://spreadablemedia.org/>."

* JOACHIM PAECH, University of Konstanz (Germany), author of Menschen im
Kino. Film und Literatur erzählen (2000), Literatur und Film (1997),
PASSION oder Die EinBILDungen des Jean-Luc Godard (1989), as well as
several seminal articles on the theory of intermediality in film,
literature, and new media.

* MARIE-LAURE RYAN, independent scholar, Colorado (USA), co-editor of
Intermediality and Storytelling (2010), author of Avatars of Story
(Electronic Mediations) (2006), Narrative across Media: The Languages of
Storytelling (2004), Narrative as Virtual Reality. Immersion and
Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (2001), etc.


Deadline for the submission of proposals: 20 May 2013.
We will notify you about the acceptance of your proposals by: 1 June 2013.

Submission of proposals: please complete the submission form that you can
download from the conference website:
http://film.sapientia.ro/en/conferences/rethinking-intermediality-in-the-digital-ageand
send it as an attachment to the following address:
2013.rethinking.intermediality< at >gmail.com

Best regards to everybody, and looking forward to an exciting conference!
Feel free to circulate this call!

...
Dr. AGNES PETHO, Head of Department
Sapientia University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Department of Film, Photography, and Media,
http://film.sapientia.ro/en
Executive editor: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film & Media Studies
http://www.acta.sapientia.ro/acta-film/film-main.htm

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Announcement Request

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-02T20:53:02

From: Allison Pekel [allison_pekel< at >wgbh.org]

I am working with a project that I thought might be of interest to the Cinema History Community.

I work for WGBH, Boston in the Media Library and Archive and the Archive has been funded by the Mellon Foundation to work with academic scholars who have interest in utilizing our moving image and sound materials through the course of their research. We hope to increase public awareness of the vast collections that digital repositories hold by publishing our entire archival catalogue online, for open access and use.

Placing the catalogue online however is only the first step, as records may be incomplete or misleading. To help enhance the quality of our records, we are inviting scholars, teachers and students to research our catalogue and contribute their own discoveries and findings back to us. There are even limited opportunities there to catalogue and curate an online collection specific to your field of research as part of Open Vault (http://openvault.wgbh.org<http://openvault.wgbh.org/>). Final products could include essays on your topic, streaming public access to one selection of media in your collection, supplying metadata for the items in your collection and/or presenting your findings at a conference.

Obviously we are a public broadcasting station and not a producer of films, however we have a great collection of moving image and sound materials related to broadcast television. If you have an ongoing research project and would consider utilizing moving image and sound materials in your work, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Allison Pekel
Project Coordinator
WGBH Media Library and Archives
Allison_Pekel< at >WGBH.org<mailto:Allison_Pekel< at >WGBH.org>
617-300-2678

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IT Workshop 2nd Round Submissions due 16 May: IEEE Xplore/EI Compendex/ISI

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-05-02T20:54:30

From: X.F. Meng [cfp< at >icnc-fskd-2013.lntu.edu.cn]

Dear Colleague,

We cordially invite you to submit a paper to the Workshop on Information Technology (WIT 2013), a part of the 9th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC 2013), to be held from 23-25 July 2013 in Shenyang, China. Topics of WIT 2013 include (but are not limited to): Communications and Networking, Automation and Control, Image and Signal Processing, Software Engineering, etc.. The deadline for the 2nd (final) round of submissions is 16 May 2013 (papers already submitted in the previous round should not be re-submitted and will receive review notifications on 15 April).

Shenyang, the largest city in Northeast China, has a celebrated history dating back to the Warring States of 476 BC. It is the birthplace of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) and has many cultural relics which symbolize the prosperity and subsequent decline of the last feudal dynasty in China. Shenyang has one of China's the two best preserved imperial palace complexes, along with the famous Zhaoling Tomb and Fuling Tomb. Shenyang is also renowned for its mild summer and mouth-watering local food.

All papers in conference proceedings will be submitted to both EI Compendex and ISTP (ISI Proceedings), as well as IEEE Xplore (ICNC-FSKD 2005-2012 have been indexed in Ei Compendex). Extended versions of selected best papers will appear in an ICNC-FSKD special issue of International Journal of Intelligent Systems (Impact Factor: 1.653), an SCI-indexed journal. ICNC-FSKD 2013 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The registration fee of US-D390 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all technical sessions.

For more information, visit the conference web page:

   http://icnc-fskd.lntu.edu.cn/

(During your electronic submission, select “ICNC'13” for Conference and “Information Technology for Natural Computation” for Category). If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page, please email the secretariat at icnc_fskd_2013< at >126.com

Join us at this major event in historical Shenyang !!!

Organizing Committee
icnc_fskd_2013< at >126.com

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H-ASIA: CFP Centenary of Indian Cinema: Aesthetics, Economics & Politics, Univ of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, Oct. 3, 2013

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-04-24T14:50:42

Apologies for cross-listings:
From: Frank Conlon [conlon< at >u.washington.edu]

H-ASIA
April 24, 2013

Call for papers: Centenary of Indian Cinema: Aesthetics, Economics,
and Politics, University of Otago, Dunedin, NZ, October 3, 2013

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From: H-Net Announcements <announce< at >MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>

Centenary of Indian Cinema: Aesthetics, Economics, and Politics
Location: New Zealand
Conference Date: 2013-10-03
Date Submitted: 2013-04-17
Announcement ID: 203111

The year 2013 marks the centenary of Indian cinema. On May 3 1913,
Dadasaheb Phalke screened the first Indian film Raja Harishchandra at
Coronation Theatre in what was then Bombay. Today, Indian cinema is,
undoubtedly, a global transnational cultural industry  in terms of
output and reach, and in terms of the multifaceted relationships to
social, economic, cultural, political, ideological, aesthetic, and
institutional discourses. It is a significant cultural industry that
plays a central role in articulating fundamental modalities of
inscribing subjectivities  gender, sexuality, nationalism, caste,
class, religion, ethnicity  played out within specific historical
moments and fields of power. Further, it should be noted that Indian
cinema is a heterogeneous assemblage that includes, in addition to
mainstream regional Indian cinemas, documentary films, parallel
cinema, short films, digital films, amateur films and those made for
the festival circuit. It has, in that regard, numerous countenances.

Indian cinema is also radically dispersed in terms of contexts of
appearance (airplane screens, computer screens, multiplex halls),
fluidity of movement between different media technologies (online
movie portals, television and DVDs, mobile technology), and the
superfluous integration with other commodity forms (animated films,
game art, IPL, and so on). The dispersal of Indian cinema
specifically, and cinema more generally, also demands that we ask how
do people engage with cinema, how is cinema experienced in the age of
media convergence. In short, Indian cinema is a mobile assemblage that
interacts with or carries out interactions with other media-systems,
popular cultures, bodies, institutions, forms of lives, communities,
and urban and industrial developments.

Additionally, the study of Indian cinema has bourgeoned and opened an
entirely new field of scholarship, challenged the discipline of Film
Studies, set up new courses within University Departments, and
fostered a healthy critical intellectual community. This body of
scholarship has had a tremendous impact, not only in terms of making
visible Indian cinema to academia, but of cultivating a culture of
taking Indian cinema seriously as a significant cultural object for
scrutiny. That said, this body of scholarship must urgently address
the changing media landscape. This is a landscape marked by
convergence, multi-platform delivery and consumption circuits, and
diverse modalities of production. The Indian film industry is now a
multi-billion dollar business and employs thousands of actors and
technicians. Hence its commercial and human resource aspects cannot be
neglected either. This existing body of scholarship must therefore
address questions of how might we study Indian cinema beyond the
domain of representation. Have we exhausted all options? What is the
future of this cinema? Are the theoretical and conceptual approaches
and trajectories that inform this body of scholarship sufficient? What
new theoretical and conceptual engagements must this cinema be
connected to? How do we evaluate the economic impact of this film
industry, both inside India and outside, as increasingly Indian films
are shot in foreign countries, including New Zealand?

At this critical juncture of Indian cinemas history and a rapidly
changing mediascape, it is time, we believe to reflect on and debate
Indian cinema: its pasts, present and future; and its possibilities,
potentialities, and limits. We invite papers on any aspect or topic
relating to Indian cinema. Please send an abstract (250 words) and a
short bio to the following email address (Indian-Cinema< at >otago.ac.nz)
by 1 August 2013.

The keynote addresses will be delivered by Professor Vijay Mishra
(Murdoch University, Australia) & Associate Professor Ranjani Mazumdar
(JNU, India). There will be other specially invited speakers.

The conference will take place at the Dunedin campus of the University
of Otago under the auspices of the New Zealand India Research
Institute, which has just been established as a consortium of seven
New Zealand universities to promote Indian studies in the country.

The conference organizers expect that the paper presenters will seek
funding from their own institutions.

Conveners

Dr. Vijay Devadas, Department of Media, Film & Communication,
University of Otago.

Dr. Sita Venkateswar, College of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Massey University


Vijay Devadas
Department of Media, Film & Communication
University of Otago

Phone: + 643 479 4374
Fax: + 643 479 3932
Email: indian-cinema< at >otago.ac.nz





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One-Day Symposium 17 May - Commies and Indians: The Western Beyond Cold War Frontiers

Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L — 2013-04-24T13:19:00

From: Stefanie Van De Peer [sevdp< at >st-andrews.ac.uk]

Greetings Colleagues!

You are cordially invited to a free one-day symposium Commies and Indians: The Western Beyond Cold War Frontiers, to be held at the Edinburgh Filmhouse on 17 May 2013.

The event will feature contributions from a range of scholars including Professor Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton) and Professor Dina Iordanova (University of St Andrews), and will include screenings of celebrated 'Red Westerns'.
Please see below for full details, and here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmstudies/events.php?eventid=189

With best wishes,
Dr. Jonathan Owen (University of St Andrews)

One-Day Symposium - Commies and Indians: The Western Beyond Cold War Frontiers

In the 1960s the Western genre, then waning in its native Hollywood, took root in many European countries. Though Italy's Spaghetti Westerns indeed remain the best-known result of this transposition, the genre also crossed political lines into Communist Eastern Europe. A highly diverse raft of state-socialist Westerns emerged that twist the genre's familiar tropes in accord with local culture and history, not to mention the ideological demands of the Cold War.

These 'Red Westerns' sometimes play as uproarious parodies of the genre and sometimes as sincere examples of it; they sometimes adapt Western narratives to local histories and settings, and sometimes fabricate an American West with the help of lookalike European locations. If, say, Yugoslavia's 'Gibanica' Westerns spin genre thrills out of that country's wartime Partisan struggles, then East Germany's Indianerfilme take place in a recognisable 'West' - albeit a radically reimagined one where the Indians are good and the American settlers bad.

Our one-day symposium will chart this fascinating episode in European popular cinema and address such questions as where these films stand in the history of the Western: how might they connect to post-classical, revisionist, demystifying modes of the genre as embodied by Peckinpah or Leone?  This topic also enables us to explore broader, marginalised realities of Eastern Bloc film. With their Hollywood borrowings and frequent dependence on co-production, these films reveal the centrality of the transnational to this region's cinema. Their often Bloc-busting commercial success further affords consideration of popular pleasures in the people's democracies.


Programme

9:30 - 10.00 Welcome and Opening Comments

10:00-12:00: PANEL 1 - Westerns Around the Bloc

Jonathan Owen : Czech Westerns

Sonja Simonyi : Hungarian Westerns

Dennis Hanlon : Latin American Westerns

12:00-13:00: Lunch Break

13:00-15:00: Screenings: Short Films and Apaches (Apachen, 1973, Gottfried Kolditz)

15:00-15:30: Coffee Break

15:30-17:30: PANEL 2 - East German Westerns

Evan Torner

Tim Bergfelder

Dina Iordanova

17:30-18:00: Close / Discussion


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Reminder: H-Net's Spring Campaign

H-Net Donations — 2013-04-19T01:34:39

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Fwd: Listmember book announcement: SPORT AND FILM (Routledge 2013)

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-04-17T04:31:33

From: Crosson, Sean <sean.crosson< at >nuigalway.ie>

The sports film has become one of commercial cinema's most recognizable
genres. From classic boxing films such as Raging Bull (1980) to
soccer-themed box-office successes like Bend it Like Beckham (2002), the
sports film stands at the interface of two of our most important cultural
forms. This book examines the social, historical and ideological
significance of representations of sport in film internationally, tracing
the history of the sports film, from the beginnings of cinema in the 1890s,
its consolidation as a distinct fiction genre in the mid 1920s in Hollywood
films such as Harold Lloyd's The Freshman (1925), to its contemporary
manifestation in Oscar-winning films such as Million Dollar Baby (2004) and
The Fighter (2010). Drawing on an extensive range of films as source
material, the book explores key issues in the study of sport, film and
wider society, including race, social class, gender and the legacy of 9/11.
It also offers an invaluable guide to 'reading' a film, to help students
fully engage with their source material.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Why Sport and Film? Chapter 1: Reading the Sports Film
Chapter 2: Early Cinema and the Emergence of the Sports Film Chapter 3: The
Sports Film Genre Chapter 4: 'Truths that tell a lie': Race, Social Class
and the American Dream in the Sports Film Chapter 5: Gender and the Sports
Film Chapter 6: The Sports Film, National Culture and Identity Conclusion:
9/11 and the Contemporary Mainstream Sports Film

Sport and Film will be launched by Dr. Philip Dine on Monday, 29 April at
5.30pm in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media, NUI Galway, and all
are welcome. Further information, including ordering details, is available
at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415569934/ <
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Seán Crosson is Programme Director of the MA in Film Studies: Theory and
Practice in the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at NUI Galway,
Ireland. He has published widely on film, focusing in particular in recent
years on the representation of sport in film. His previous publications
include (as co-editor) the collection Sport, Representation and Evolving
Identities in Europe (Peter Lang, 2010) and a special issue of Media
History journal on 'Sport and the Media in Ireland' (2011).

An Appeal from H-Net: Help Us Get To The Launch Pad...

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Listmember book announcement: Queer Love in Film and Television

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-04-13T03:35:28

From: Pamela Demory <phdemory< at >ucdavis.edu>

QUEER LOVE IN FILM AND TELEVISION: CRITICAL ESSAYS
Co-edited By Pamela Demory and Christopher Pullen

This turn-of-the-century moment -- when queer love has become increasingly
visible in both popular culture and socio-political realms -- provides an
ideal occasion for a critical examination of same-sex love stories in the
media. Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years
before and after the millennium, the essays collected in Queer Love in Film
and Television ask how recent films and television programs play with,
imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative
conventions so common in Western culture. The collection follows the
trajectory of the conventional romance narrative, from the pursuit of
romantic love to the creation of families, and then it pushes further, into
marginal regions where conventional narratives fail to venture, and then
turns back to consider how that narrative is itself transformed (or
queered) through adaptation.

PRAISE FOR QUEER LOVE IN FILM AND TELEVISION:
"Influenced by the major queer theorists, the varied and provocative essays
collected in Queer Love in Film and Television challenge our thinking about
the ways in which gay and lesbian sex and love have been presented in film
and on television over the past two decades, from Modern Family to The L
Word, and from Brokeback Mountain to gay porn. Along the way, crucial
questions are asked about the validity of conventional romantic narratives
as vehicles for presenting queer relationships, and the possibility of
queer love. "

CFP Enolas Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb, an anthology

Kenneth Nolley — 2013-04-12T15:37:52

FORWARDED FROM H-ASIA:
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H-ASIA
April 12, 2013

Call for papers: Enolas Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb, an
edited anthology of essays
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 Enola's Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb
Call for Papers Date: 2013-07-29
Date Submitted: 2013-04-10
Announcement ID: 202913

This is a call for papers, for a new anthology tentatively titled Enolas
Light: Japanese Cinema and the A-Bomb. The anthologys aim is to shed light
on all genres of Japanese Cinema  commercial, anime, pink, underground  and
its portrayal of how the atomic bombings have been depicted.

I'm particularly interested in receiving papers on how Japanese cinema has
portrayed the effects of the bombing on Hiroshima and Nagaskai in its
films, such as Godzilla and Children of Hiroshima?

Im looking for critical essays that discuss individual films, directors or
topics relating to the atomic bombings, whether dealt with directly or
hidden as a subtext within the film.

Please send a 300-400 word proposal or abstract to the above email address.

If interested, I recommend that you first send a 300-400 word proposal (or
a simple email, in order to check the papers suitability). Submissions and
proposals should be sent to
Matthew6.Edwards< at >live.uwe.ac.**uk<Matthew6.Edwards< at >live.uwe.ac.uk>

All texts should be in Times New Roman, font size 12 and justified. Please
use endnotes, though please refrain from using the endnotes facility on
your computer. For notes, please use superscript and number all notes
numerically.

Closing date for submissions will be 15th June. This deadline will be
rigorously enforced as I am aiming for a 2013 publication.

Matthew Edwards is the editor of the anthology Film out of Bounds, which
was published in the US by Mcfarland and Co in 2007.

Matthew Edwards
University West of England
Bristol
United Kingdom