Film Studies

Film Studies: Representative

My name is Mariana Liz. I am a PhD candidate at the Film Studies Department at King's College London, although I work closely with the European Studies Department as well. My research project is entitled "European Identity in contemporary cinema". My research interests include European integration, European culture and identity, European cinema, Film and Society and (Trans)national cinemas.
 

Film Studies: Useful Links

This is a very useful link for Conference Alerts:
http://www.conferencealerts.com/film.htm
 
Besides ECREA, other Film and Media Studies Networks that might be of interest:
SCMS - Society for Cinema & Media Studies
http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php
 
NECS - European Network for Cinema and Media Studies
http://www.necs-initiative.org/

CFP Romcom Actually: Conference

Romcom Actually
A Two-Day International Conference on Romantic Comedy in Film and Television
Leicester, UK, 2 - 3 March 2011.
 
Plenary speakers:
Peter Evans (Queen Mary, University of London) Tamar Jeffers McDonald (University of Kent)
 
 
Call for papers
 

New Book: The Danish Directors 2: Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema

The Danish Directors 2: Dialogues on the New Danish Fiction Cinema
Edited by Mette Hjort, Eva Novrup Redvall and Eva Joerholt

ISBN 9781841502717
Paperback
Price £14.95, $25

Available now

ABOUT THE BOOK

Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema

Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of the second issue of the Journal of Japanese & Korean Cinema (JJKC).

The increasingly transnational status of Japanese and Korean cinema underlines the need to deepen our understanding of this ever more globalized film-making region. The Journal of Japanese and Korean Cinema is a fully refereed forum for the dissemination of scholarly work devoted to the cinemas of Japan and Korea and the interactions and relations between them.

CfP: Sound and the Moving Image

Call for Papers: Cinesonika Festival and Conference seeks contributions on
Sound and the Moving Image

CINESONIKA: The First International Film and Video Festival of Innovative
Sound Design is adding a conference component. We are seeking
interdisciplinary contributions on sound in relation to the moving image.
Film scholars, art historians, performance theorists, composers,
filmmakers, sound practitioners ­ we invite these and others to subbmit

CfP: Creative Accounting: British Producers, British Screens

Creative Accounting: British Producers, British Screens
Two day conference, University of the West of England (Bristol), UK
19-20 April 2011
Deadline for proposals: 30 November 2010

“Even the title of ‘producer’ has become diluted, where not denigrated. And the
producer’s
‘personal touch’ is largely missing in films of late”. (Michael Klinger, 1972)

The role of the producer has historically been sidelined, or even ignored, by Film

The Big Screen vs. The Small Screen

The Big Screen vs. The Small Screen

A one-day conference exploring the competing cultures and contexts of cinema and
television in a changing media environment

Canterbury Christ Church University (Department of Media), UK

February 16, 2011

Confirmed key speakers:

Professor Charlotte Brunsdon (University of Warwick)
Professor Mark Jancovich (University of East Anglia)
Dr. Karen Lury (University of Glasgow)

CfP: The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference

The Second Birth of Cinema: A Centenary Conference
Percy Building, Newcastle University, 1-2 July 2011
Keynote speakers: André Gaudreault & Philippe Marion, Ian Christie, Joe Kember
Deadline for abstracts: 30 September 2010

This conference commemorates cinema’s ‘second birth’, the historical developments and
departures that broke cinema’s subordination to other media to give us the medium, the
industry and the building that we know as ‘the cinema’.

CfP: Doing Women's Film History 13-15 April 2011: University of Sunderland

Women's Film History Network - UK/Ireland
Doing Women's Film History: Reframing
Cinema Past and Future
13-15 April 2011
Centre for Research in Media and Cultural Studies: University of Sunderland

Despite their marginalization in film history, women have always been widely involved in
and around cinema as: producers, directors, scriptwriters, cinematographers, editors,
designers, actresses, sound designers, voice coaches, composers, distributors,
programmers, cinema managers, publicists, critics, audiences, and so on. This

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