MCLC: Histories of Film Theories--cfp

[Denton, Kirk]

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From: kevin lee (kevin at dgeneratefilms.com)
Subject: Histories of Film Theories--cfp
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Call for Papers: Histories of Film Theories in East Asia ­ Ann Arbor,
Michigan, 2012

http://filmtheories.org/upcoming-conference-film-theory-in-korea-japan-and-
sinophone-asia-ann-arbor-michigan-2012/

The Permanent Seminar on the Histories of Film Theories will hold the
first-ever conference devoted to the histories of film theory in East
Asia. The Scientific Board invites proposals for 20-minute papers
concerning any aspect of and period of the history of film theory in
Korea, Japan, and Sinophone Asia

HISTORIES OF FILM THEORIES IN EAST ASIA
September 27-30, 2012
Ann Arbor, MI
Coordinated by A. M. Nornes

CALL FOR PAPERS: Deadline for 200-word proposals in MS-Word: March 31, 2012
Send to amnornes at umich.edu

The history of film theory has largely been a Euro-American story.
However, the Scientific Board of the Permanent Seminar recognizes that
it actually has a global dimension that has yet to be adequately
mapped. It plans to bring its annual conference to the University of
Michigan<this will be the first, broad scholarly gathering devoted to
the histories of film theory in East Asia. Our scope is broad. It
encompasses classical philosophical approaches to film aesthetics
(³essence²), questions of media ontology (³relationship to reality²),
intermediality (³the other arts²), spectatorship and questions of
perception and psychology (³individual viewers²) as well as
sociological approaches to film (³society at large²).

Over the last two decades, Film Studies has matured into a dynamic
field characterized by vital debates between well-defined theoretical
paradigms. At the same time the field has seen a turn to history on
several levels. Film theorists have increasingly become interested in
the history of their own approaches to film, situating film theory
within the broader histories of philosophy, psychology and other
disciplines and fields that have traditionally provided key concepts
and arguments to film theory. Among of the indicators for this new
interest is the Permanent Seminar for the History of Film Theory, an
international association of film theorists founded by Jane Gaines and
Francesco Cassetti in 2008. It holds a biennial conference that
alternates with smaller workshops on narrow themes.

The Michigan conference will feature a keynote speech by Aaron Gerow
(Yale), panels, a special film screening with professional benshi
Kataoka Ichiro, and breakaway sessions. The breakaway sessions will be
devoted to two groups of scholars that are currently working on
volumes of theory in translation from Chinese (eds., Jason McGrath
[Minnesota] and Guo-Juin Hong [Duke]) and Japanese (eds., Aaron Gerow
[Yale], Iwamoto Kenji [Waseda] and Markus Nornes [UM]) respectively;
thus, the conference will provide a much needed forum for these groups
to meet and discuss their book projects, which will eventually
commemorate this field-changing conference.