Appel à com : "Impure Cinema Conference", Leeds

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Impure Cinema Conference
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Approaches to World Cinema
2-5 December 2010
Leeds Art Gallery
The University of Leeds

Conference convenor: Professor Lúcia Nagib, University of Leeds

Key Speakers:
Professor Dudley Andrew, Yale University
Professor Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds
Professor Jacques Rancière, Emeritus Professor University of Paris 8 (tbc)
Professor James Schamus, Focus Features/Columbia University (tbc)
Professor Robert Stam, New York University
Dr Jonathan Wood, Henry Moore Institute


This will be the first overarching conference organised by the Mixed Cinema Network, an international body devoted to the study of cinema as a fundamentally interdisciplinary and intercultural subject area. For full details, go to www.leeds.ac.uk/worldcinemas/ and follow links to 'events' and 'call for papers'.

Abstracts are invited on the following sub-themes:

. Film and cross-media intertextuality

. Intercultural aesthetics and narratives in the cinema

. Authorship and hybrid cinema

. Screen adaptations: theory and practice

. Music for film, film to music

. Film and new technologies

. Film and photography

. Film and visual arts

. Film and performance arts

. Film and philosophy


Please send abstracts of between 200-300 words, together with biographic details of 200 words max., to Jenni Rauch, J.S.Rauch@leeds.ac.uk by 24 May 2010. Selected papers will be announced by 28 June 2010.

White Rose University Consortium
Mixed Cinema Network
University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, University of York

Co-organised by:

The Centre for World Cinemas, School of Modern Languages and Cultures,
University of Leeds
WREAC - White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Leeds