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Deaths of Cinema The 1st Annual Critical Studies Graduate Student Conference March 23-24, 2007 Los Angeles, CA |
Description
Organized under the theme “Deaths of Cinema,” this conference aims to address contemporary concerns in the arts and humanities with changing technologies, production and exhibition practices, and academic research methods associated with cinema and other moving image media. The expansion of digital technology in the cinematic arts has led recent commentators to proclaim the “death” of cinema. Similarly, the academic study of cinema has been challenged in recent years by the growth of interdisciplinary fields and methodologies associated with Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Visual Studies. We believe that these are important developments for students of Critical Studies and related academic disciplines such as History, Art History, English, Comparative Literature and American Studies, as well as for practitioners of the cinematic arts. Our conference will emphasize the historical and contextual aspects of changes in cinema, while also encouraging participants to think theoretically about the consequences of those changes.
Conference Schedule
Friday
Screening and discussion:
Janie Geiser
Director, Loyd Costen Center for Puppetry & the Arts, CalArts
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Lucas 108
Screening list:
IMMER ZU (1997, 8'30")
LOST MOTION (1999, 11')
ULTIMA THULE (2002, 10'16")
TERRACE 49 (2004, 5'37")
THE FOURTH WATCH (2000, 11')
MAGNETIC SLEEP (Episode #1) (2006, 7')
Saturday
Breakfast
9:15 – 10:00am
Bogardus Courtyard
Smashing the Object: Theorizing and Materializing the End
10:00 – 11:30am
Erika Balsom (Brown University)
"From Bad Object to Lost Object: the desires of film theory"
James Leo Cahill (USC)
"And Afterwards? Martin Arnold's Phantom Cinema"
Luis Recoder (independent filmmaker)
"The Death of Structural Film"
Respondent: Professor David James
Rejuvenating the Spectator: Shifts in Viewing Practices
11:45am – 1:15pm
Emily Conlon (USC)
"Film in the Age of Digital Duplicity: Why the War Against Movie
Piracy is More than Just a Financial Fight"
Murray Leeder (Carleton University)
"Skeletons of Early Cinema: William Castle and 'Gimmickry' in
1950's Hollywood"
Thomas Stubblefield (UC Irvine)
"Disassembling the Cinema: The Poster, the Film and In-Between"
Respondent: Professor Aniko Imre
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30pm
Bogardus Courtyard
Memorializing Death in Digital and Public Performances
2:45 – 4:15pm
Laurel Westrup (UCLA)
"Media Martyrs? Rock 'n' Roll, Film and the Political
Economy of Death"
Aimée Mitchell (York University)
"Public Spaces and Augmented Trauma: Jay David Bolter's
Oakland Cemetery Project"
Amelia Guimarin (UC Irvine)
"MyDeathSpace and Cinema: Reconfiguring Life
Through Memorials"
Respondent: Professor Anne Friedberg
Keynote address:
"Viva Cinema! Or How Cinema Changes Incessantly In Order to Remain the Same"
Hamid Naficy
John Evans Professor of Communication
Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University
4:30 – 6:00pm
Closing reception
6:00 – 8:00pm
Bogardus Courtyard
All events in Leavey Library Auditorium unless otherwise noted.