Hi All,
It is indeed very late indeed to be sending you this CfP, since the deadline for paper proposals (max. one page, plus CV) is tomorrow (November 8th) but I only heard abut it myself this morning, thanks to Dario Compagno, Siena ...
Seems highly relevant for game philosophers/researchers and for others interested in interactive media in general...
I cite below from the conference website:
http://www.damsweb.it/udineconference/XVI%20Udine%20Conference.html
Please circulate (or delete..) as you see fit...
All best for now
Patrick
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"Thanks to the support of scholars from different countries, we have recently created the Permanent Seminar on the History of Film Theories. The purpose of this initiative is to promote the study of film theory in different cultural and geographical contexts.
In cooperation with the Seminar, the International Film Studies Conference (Udine, 23-26 March, 2009) will be about the theme: In The Very Beginning and At The Very End. The goal is to study how, on one hand, early cinema was defined and framed among the artistic and cultural phenomena of its times; on the other, we shall interrogate its contemporary transformations under the impulse of the digital revolution, namely cinema's links with personal computers and cellular telephones.
This parallel approach will enables us to focus on two completely different periods which are one hundred years apart. Thus, we hope to understand how the cinema responds to the needs of specific periods, by producing, at the very same time, out-of-synch responses to its own context.
This Call For Papers encourages proposals which deals with developments internal to the cinema; proposals which evaluate the impact of film theory as a discourse which goes along with, but sometimes shapes film-making; proposals which interrogate the status of the cinema as a medium by comparing it with discourses dealing with the category of art; and finally proposals are welcome as far the cinema's dialogue and tension with the most recent developments in new media from internet to video-games.
Leonardo Quaresima, Università di Udine
Director of Udine International Film Studies Conference
Jane Gaines, Columbia University/Duke University
Francesco Casetti, Università Cattolica, Milan
Coodinators of the Permanent Seminar on History of Film Theories
In cooperation with the Seminar, the International Film Studies Conference (Udine, 23-26 March, 2009) will be about the theme: In The Very Beginning and At The Very End. The goal is to study how, on one hand, early cinema was defined and framed among the artistic and cultural phenomena of its times; on the other, we shall interrogate its contemporary transformations under the impulse of the digital revolution, namely cinema's links with personal computers and cellular telephones.
This parallel approach will enables us to focus on two completely different periods which are one hundred years apart. Thus, we hope to understand how the cinema responds to the needs of specific periods, by producing, at the very same time, out-of-synch responses to its own context.
This Call For Papers encourages proposals which deals with developments internal to the cinema; proposals which evaluate the impact of film theory as a discourse which goes along with, but sometimes shapes film-making; proposals which interrogate the status of the cinema as a medium by comparing it with discourses dealing with the category of art; and finally proposals are welcome as far the cinema's dialogue and tension with the most recent developments in new media from internet to video-games.
Leonardo Quaresima, Università di Udine
Director of Udine International Film Studies Conference
Jane Gaines, Columbia University/Duke University
Francesco Casetti, Università Cattolica, Milan
Coodinators of the Permanent Seminar on History of Film Theories
Proposals have to be sent by November 8, 2008, to:
francesco.casetti@unicatt.it
jmg2196@columbia.edu
udineconference@gmail.com
Length for paper proposal: 1 page max.
A short CV (1 page max.) should be sent together with the paper proposal.
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