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>CALL FOR PAPERS:
>
>
>Cinema and the City:
>An international, three-day conference to be held at
>The Centre for Film Studies,
>University College Dublin
>12 - 14 March 1999
>
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>Call for Papers:
>
>The Centre for Film Studies, is making a call for papers
for its
Cinema and
>the City international conference to be held at University
College
Dublin,
>Friday 12 March to Sunday 14 March 1999.
>
>In the final year of the millenium, the conference will
examine the
history
>of representations of urban space in narrative cinema
(broadly
defined), the
>relationship between cinema and architecture, the modern
and
post-modern
>city, urban alienation, social conflict, and escapism.
>
>It will analyse the city in narrative cinema as a site of
play,
wonder and
>magic, social cohesion and productivity, focusing, for
example, on
the
>suburban family home as a zone of stability and harmony. It
will
also
>examine the city in narrative cinema as a space of
ideological
conflict
>between, for example, corporate, military and governmental
power
and radical
>social formations, subcultures and the underclass. The
conference
will seek
>to explore and define likely representations of the city in
these
terms in
>the 21st century.
>
>Finally, the conference will give attention to the
relationship of
the
>Cinema and the City at the levels of production,
distribution,
exhibition,
>and reception - examining the changing historical role and
operation of the
>cinema in the urban/suburban marketplace. Of particular
interest
will be the
>relationship between these objective historical
developments and
their
>articulation in terms of cinematic theme and form - for
example, in
the case
>of the drive-in cinema.
>
>Proposals for papers are invited in the following areas:
>
>Cinema, Architecture, and Capitalism
>The Human Body in the City
>Mobility, Escape, and Urban Alienation
>Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Urban Space
>the City and the Country - the Natural vs. the
Built-Environment
>Suburbia and the Cinema - Histories and Representations
>Local histories of particular film industries and their
home cities
>the City as Cinema Marketplace - Reception and Consumption
>Contributions are specifically sought from the following
disciplines
>(although interested speakers from other disciplines, whose
work
relates
>substantially to film, will be considered):
>Film Studies, Communications and Media Studies, Cultural
Studies,
Art
>History, Architecture, American Studies, Politics and
Political
History.
>
>Papers will be of 30 minutes duration each. Additionally,
there
will be one
>graduate session in which papers will be of 20 minutes
duration
each.
>
>It is anticipated that selected papers from the conference
will be
published
>in book form. Further details will be available shortly.
>
>Abstracts of 300 words should be addressed to the
conference
organisers at
>the following address, to arrive no later than 20 November
1998:
>
>Post:
>
>Mark Shiel and Tony Fitzmaurice,
>The Cinema and the City Conference,
>Centre for Film Studies,
>University College Dublin,
>Belfield, Dublin 4,
>Ireland.
>
>
>email: Abstracts will also be accepted by e-mail to the
following
address:
>mashiel@ollamh.ucd.ie
>or.....
>mashiel@tinet.ie
>
>Papers will be selected, panels formed, and speakers
informed by
letter, by
>15 December 1998. Details of the keynote and other speakers
will
then be
>published on this page.
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