CFP: 16TH ANNUAL FSAC/ACÉC GRADUATE STUDENT COLLOQUIUM
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Corpus: Bodies on Film/Bodies of Film
Film Studies Association of Canada 16th Annual Graduate Colloquium
Hosted by the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
February 28 – March 2, 2014
Keynote by Melinda Barlow, Associate Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
La version française suit.
Turning towards the important roles sensory and visceral experiences play in our apprehending of media texts, scholars of the moving image have endeavored to call attention to the ongoing need for media scholarship and theory to explore questions pertaining to the cinematic “body.” These inquiries probe not only the embodied experience of the spectator, but also how media objects might constitute a body or corpus. The continuing evolution of the digital has paralleled the degradation and demise of more traditional film bodies, perhaps best exemplified by the phasing out of celluloid. However, it has also contributed to the growth of new archival bodies of cinema, while engendering a recast relationship between the corporeal entity and the virtual body of the avatar. As such, the aim of this colloquium is to examine the shifting relationships between the spectatorial and textual body, as well as the extent to which film and media texts constitute a body to be collected, archived and fetishized by fans and cinephiles alike.
How can our conception of ‘body’ extend to include cinema and moving images as forms of corporeality? As contemporary media moves toward the virtual, what can be said about the materiality of analogue media? Is celluloid forever condemned to the realm of waste and lost objects? What insights can we glean through analyzing our corporeal relationship to media texts? Does our understanding of established bodies of the moving image (e.g. archives, collections, canons) influence our research practice?
Possible presentation topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Materiality/Material culture of the Cinema (industrial and amateur)
- Transgressive or Marginalized Bodies/Alienated or Neglected Archives
- Body Modification or Body as Art Piece
- Cinephiles and the Fan Collection/Connoisseurship
- Auteurism and the Cinematic Canon(s)
- Abjection and Disgust/Film Decomposition and the “Lost” film
- Body Genres (e.g. Horror, Melodrama, Pornography)/Genres as Bodies
- Necrology and Dead Bodies/Orphan Films and Lost Corpuses
- Embodied performance in video art and avant-garde practices
- Cinematic waste (e.g. deleted scenes, found footage, home movies, blooper reels)
- Film Preservation and the Archive
Please submit a 300 word abstract including your name, degree/department, email address and title of your presentation by December 9 to gradcolloquium@filmstudies.ca. Submissions are welcome in both English and French from graduate students in film, television, and media studies or other disciplines with a focus on the moving image. Notices of acceptance will be sent by early January 2013.
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Le corpus: les corps dans le cinéma/ corpus d’oeuvres filmiques
Le Seizième Colloque Annuel de l’Association Canadienne D’Études Cinématographiques
Organisé par le Cinema Studies Institute de l’Université de Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
28 février – 2 mars, 2014
Discours d’ouverture par Melinda Barlow, Professeur Adjoint de l’Étude du Cinéma à l’Université de Colorado, Boulder.
Les experiénces sensorielles et viscérales jouent un rôle très important dans notre compréhension des textes médiatiques. Les savants du film et média continuent d’explorer des questions associées au corps, ou le corpus filmique. Ces questions explorent l’experiénce du spectateur, ainsi que les objets médiatiques eux-mêmes, qui peuvent être considérés comme ‘un corps’. L’objectif de ce colloque est d’examiner les relations en flux entre le corps réel (humain) du spectateur, et le corps du texte/sur texte (film). Ce colloque désire d’aussi examiner comment des textes filmiques ou médiatiques peuvent être considérés comme des ‘corps’ pour être collectionés par les ‘fans’ et par les cinéphiles.
Est-ce que le celluloïde, un corps filmique, est condemné d’être seulement un ‘déchet’, dans l’ère numérique? Quel en est l’avantage d’analyser notre relation comme spectateur, comme corps humain, avec le corps du texte? Comment est-ce que notre recherche comme savants peut être influencer par des collections, ou corps, filmiques?
Des thèmes possibles sont:
- Le matière du cinéma
- Des corps marginalises (sur film/du film)
- Les collections des ‘fans’ et cinéphiles
- La décomposition du film (celluloïde)
- Le corps comme objet d’art
- Le film ‘perdu’
- Les performances du corps dans le film
Nous invitons donc ceux et celles qui le désirent à nous soumettre un extrait de leur papier (300 mots environ.) Chaque extrait devra être accompagné d’une courte note biographique (votre nom, département/diplôme et le titre de votre présentation), ainsi que d’une adresse de courriel.
Le dernier délai pour l’envoi des inscriptions est le 9 decèmbre, 2013. Veuillez les envoyer au courriel: gradcolloquium@filmstudies.ca
Les avis d’acceptation seront envoyés début janvier 2013.
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