3rd Annual Film Studies Postgraduate Conference

20 May 2008

Centre for Film Studies,
Boardroom, 99 North Street, St Andrews

KEYNOTE – Professor John Hill (Royal Holloway, London)
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Sex in the Cinema

CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES
Postgraduate Study Day
University of St Andrews, 15 May 2008
Dept of Film Studies
99 North St, St Andrews

Keynote Speaker:
Professor Linda Ruth Williams (University of Southampton)

"I know it when I see it": Sex, simulation and classification in mainstream cinema since the 1990s.
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The World Picture Conference on The Popular

October 24 and 25, 2008

Oklahoma State University

Keynote Speakers: Ernesto Laclau and Lauren Berlant

The World Picture conference is an annual meeting devoted to theory that takes place in the intimate setting of Stillwater, Oklahoma. Read More...

Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival:
7 Screenings of Provocative Films by Talented Emerging Filmmakers


The 42nd Brooklyn Arts Council International Film Festival (April 29 - May 9), includes a collection of films that reflect global preoccupations - war and its aftermath, violence in myriad forms, environmental change and degradation, social inequalities and poverty, global migrations, the suffering of children, and relationships between man and women - expressed through the full range of filmmaking's genres and styles Read More...

Diversions: A festival of experimental film and video
8 – 11 May 2008
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ

Organised by the Film Studies section of the University of Edinburgh, this unique new event brings together some of the most important experimental film and video works from the 1920s to the present. Read More...

8th May 2008 (7 for 7.30pm start)

Guy Sherwin - Live Cinema - Performances
Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Rd, London, E3 5QZ
Admission Free but booking essential events@chisenhale.org.uk

To mark the launch of OPTICAL SOUND FILMS 1971 – 2007, Guy Sherwin, the  Guy Sherwin will be performing his seminal work Man With A Mirror alongside three new pieces which will be premièred at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. Read More...

Russia on Screen: Identity and Appropriation
Registration now Open - contact russiaonscreen@hotmail.co.uk

Saturday 10 May 2008
Conference Programme

Venue: Hitchcock Cinema, Arts G.19, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS Read More...

FILM AND PHILOSOPHY: CALL FOR PAPERS FOR VOLUME 13

SPECIAL INTEREST EDITION:

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY THROUGH FILM

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The Inhuman: Investigating Continental Thought in the Humanities

Conference Date: October 3-4, 2008

CFP Deadline: June 15, 2008

York University, Toronto Read More...

Philosophy and Film / Film and Philosophy: A multidisciplinary conference
Conference announcement and final call for papers
UWE in association with the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol 
4-6 July 2008, the Arnolfini, Bristol
Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics Read More...

PARADISE NOW! Essential French Avant-Garde Cinema, 1890-2008

Friday 14 March - Friday 2 May 2008

Tate Modern, London Read More...

Jacques Rancière Conference
Wednesday 21st May 2008

www.roehampton.ac.uk/researchcentres/crfac/ Read More...

Serpentine Gallery Film Programme: It’s A Sin: The films and inspirations of Derek Jarman

On the occasion of the Serpentine Gallery exhibition Derek Jarman: Brutal Beauty curated by Isaac Julien, It’s a Sin, is a season of feature-length films by Derek Jarman as well as films that influenced his practice. In addition an exciting short film programme has been selected by installation artist and film-maker Tina Keane featuring works by Jarman’s contemporaries and younger film-makers. Screened at The Gate Picturehouse, Notting Hill, Greenwich Picturehouse and The Ritzy Cinema, Brixton, the series celebrates the work and legacy of this pioneering film-maker.

Tickets available from: www.picturehouses.co.uk and 0871 704 2068 Read More...

Visible Evidence XV brings together scholars, artists, producers, makers and curators who engage in debates on contemporary documentary practices in all media.

Hosted by the Lincoln Chair of Communications with the support of the Grierson Trust, bfi and Wallflower, VISIBLE EVIDENCE XV will take place in one of the UK’s newest universities sited in one of its most ancient cities. As usual, the conference will address all current issues in documentary studies including documentary and history, and fact-based theatre. Screenings will include films from the British National Film and Television Archive specially digitised for the conference as well as recent Grierson prize-winners. Read More...

Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies

First Conference ‘Mapping  Scotland’

24th June 2008 Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow Read More...

Call for Papers: PHILOSOPHY AS LITERATURE

A Special Issue of “The European Legacy”

Guest Editor: Costica Bradatan (The Honors College, Texas Tech University) Read More...

HUNDRED OF WAYS TO SEE A FILM
THE INTERSUBJECTIVITY OF FILM APPRECIATION
THE DECALOGUE BY KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI
Edited by Silvia Angrisani


CALL FOR PAPERS
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Journal of British Cinema and Television
 
Call for papers, Issue 12: On Colour in British Cinema and Television
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The Ister
Directed produced by David Barison and Daniel Ross
Cast: Philippe Lacoue Labarthe, Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Hans Jurgen Syberberg / 189 mins./ 2004

Sun 24 Feb 11:30AM

Renoir Cinema
Brunswick Centre

www.curzoncinemas.com
Box Office: 0871 7033 991

£6.50/5.50 Members

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Burt Lancaster, Part two

The 1960s was a period of transition in Hollywood, and no star was better positioned than Burt Lancaster to enjoy the increasing creative freedom of those changing times. As an ambitious actor and a maverick independent producer, Lancaster had long challenged the studio system’s general aversion to controversy, realism and the downbeat.

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Screwball Women: Comediennes in Classical Hollywood

The contribution of directors such as Capra and Cukor to Hollywood comedy is undisputed, but their leading ladies deserve more attention. This BFI Southbank season features some of the most brilliant comediennes ever to light up the screen, including the ever sophisticated Claudette Colbert, smouldering Carole Lombard and the ‘glacial goddess’, Katharine Hepburn.

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Clowning Glories: Women in Film Comedy before 1930

Women were highly active as directors during cinema’s first decades, but few comedies directed by women from this period survive today. However, a strong selection of titles are still available for this retrospective, showcasing work from Florence Turner and Hollywood’s most successful female director, Dorothy Arzner.

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Birds Eye View Film Festival joins forces with the BFI to present two retrospective programmes, Clowning Glories and Screwball Women, honouring the women whose comic brilliance lit up the screen from the earliest days of cinema to Hollywood’s golden era.

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Twilight and Treachery: The Postwar European Film Noir

What exactly is film noir? To coincide with the BFI release of Bertolucci’s The Conformist, BFI Southbank presents a thought-provoking season to address this question throughout March.

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Friday 7 March 2008, at 7pm, Tate Modern, London
MARKOPOULOS: PORTRAITS OF ARTISTS

Markopoulos made many extraordinary film portraits, which often incorporate
an activity or object that has personal significance to the subject. This
programme presents a selection of sensuous and poetic portraits of cultural
and art world luminaries such as Gilbert & George, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio
di Chirico and Rudolph Nureyev.

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Conference announcement and first call for papers

UWE in association with the Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol
4-6 July 2008, the Arnolfini, Bristol

Keynote Speakers:

Vivian Sobchack (UCLA)
Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)
Robert Sinnerbrink (Maquarrie)
Catherine Constable (Warwick)
Julian Baggini (editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine)
Karin Littau (Essex) Read More...

Science Fiction Film and Television is a biannual, peer-reviewed journal published by Liverpool University Press and distributed in North America by Chicago University Press. Edited by Mark Bould (UWE) and Sherryl Vint (Brock University), with an international board of advisory editors, it encourages dialogue among the scholarly and intellectual communities of film studies, sf studies and television studies. Read More...

5th – 7th September 2008, University of Reading Film Conference

Contemporary film displays both its debt to the established forms and practices of narrative cinema, and to international developments in aesthetic practice and in new technologies that subtly shift the boundaries of cinema’s aural and visual field. Read More...

International Interdisciplinary Conference

University of Cambridge, 17-18 September 2008


Keynote Speakers:

Professor Kaja Silverman (University of California, Berkeley) TBC

Professor Mieke Bal (University of Amsterdam) Read More...

David Cronenberg: Author or Film-maker by Mark Browning / £19.95, $40 / ISBN 978-1-84150-173-4 / Published October 2007. Read More...

NEW NIGHTMARES:
Issues and themes in Contemporary Horror Cinema and Horror Film Criticism

An international conference at Manchester Metropolitan University 3-4 April 2008 Read More...

MEDIATIONS 23.1 (Fall 2007)

www.mediationsjournal.org

The editorial collective of Mediations, the journal of the Marxist
Literary Group, is pleased to announce the inauguration of the
journal's second series with issue 23.1, a dossier of contemporary
Marxist thought from Brazil. Mediations is published twice yearly. The
Fall issues are dossiers of non-U.S. material of interest; the Spring
issues are open submission and peer reviewed. Read More...

CALL FOR PAPERS

GREEK CINEMA: TEXTS, HISTORIES, IDENTITIES
Liverpool, 23rd May 2008

A one-day conference organised by
Dr Lydia Papadimitriou, Screen Studies (Liverpool John Moores University) and Dr Yannis Tzioumakis, Media and Communication Studies (The University of Liverpool) Read More...