Resources in Art History for Graduate Students
FILM/MOVIES/FLICKS/CINEMA/PHOTOGRAPHY and ALL RELATED MEDIA
SYMPOSIA, PUBLICATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONS OF INTEREST TO GRADUATE STUDENTS
26-30 September 2012. Hyatt Regency Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Annual, apparently. This year's theme is: Film and Myth (see below). This is also a journal. See the Web site for more details.
26-30 September 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. "Myth has been used for centuries to explain nature, and the face of nature has been used to create national and personal myths. Cinematic, televisual, and cybervisual representations of nature and the environment affect cultural assumptions about peoples and places, affecting how we interact with nature and each other. In some cases Mother Nature directs the action; in others she has the starring role...Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by June 1, 2012:
Deborah Carmichael, Area Chair, 2012 Film & History Conference Mythic Mother Nature: Storytelling and Myth-Building Through Moving Image Representations of Nature and the Environment Michigan State University Department of Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures 235 Bessey Hall East Lansing MI 48824 Carmic28@msu.eduINTERNATIONAL SCREEN STUDIES CONFERENCE
29 June-1 July 2012. University of Glasgow. "Looking into the past and the future of cinema has inspired increasing academic interest in films and film-making practices that are generally considered to be outside the "mainstream" of commercial cinema. This year Screen encouraged presentations that engage with these Other Cinemas.
26-30 September 2012. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. "An area of multiple panels for the Film & History Conference on "Film and Myth...The Middle Ages have inspired some of the most enduring myths and legends of Western culture. Whether painted, on screen, in the bright colors of Camelot and The Adventures of Robin Hood or the drab grays and browns of Robin and Marian and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they represent a world in which right and wrong, love and honor, heroism and villainy were clearly defined. Tales of larger-than-life medieval characters--whether adapted from original sources, or set in a wholly imagined middle ages--have been staples of film and television for generations. These medieval-themed narratives, featuring historical figures like Joan of Arc, beloved folk heroes such as Robin Hood, and worlds where dragons and other mythical beasts roam the Earth, have retold and adapted familiar stories of adventure, conquest, magic, and romance, while adding new ones to the ancient tradition...Proposals for complete panels (three related presentations) are also welcome, but they must include an abstract and contact information, including an e-mail address, for each presenter. Please e-mail your 200-word proposal by June 1, 2012:
L. Larson, Area Chair, 2012 Film & History Conference
"Medieval Magic, Myth, and Legend in Film and Television"
Our Lady of the Lake University
E-mail: llarson@ollusa.eduMUSIC AND THE MOVING IMAGE VI
1-3 June 2012. NYU Steinhardt. "The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, television, video games, iPod, computer, and interactive performances) through paper presentations...Abstracts or synopses of papers (250 words) should be submitted to: Dr. Ron Sadoff, (mami.2011.conference@nyu.edu) chair of the program committee, by no later than Dec. 16, 2011. E-mail: (ron.sadoff@nyu.edu) for more information.
SOCIETY FOR FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
21-25 March 2012. Boston, MA. Please visit the SCMS website for more details about the 2012 conference.
"WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY": THE WAR ON TERROR AND VISUAL NARRATIVE
20-23 October 2012 . American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. "This panel examines the relationship between imagination and transformation, in particular, as it is produced in visual narrative culture. Like many of the objects it interrogates, the panel works through the politics of culture at a time when culture and geopolitics have become deeply imbricated. By interrogating the various genres-thriller, documentary, police procedural-through which it has been represented, the individual papers show how visual narrative culture has responded to, worked through, and-in turn-helped shape popular perceptions of the 'War on Terror'. The central focus of the panel is on the relationship between fictional representation and documentary reportage-not only between different texts and genres (Green Zone and Standard Operating Procedure; fiction and documentary) but also between texts and their sources (Green Zone and Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone, the fictional film's journalistic source material). Through this focus, the panel is able to examine and account for the transformed relationships between fact and fiction, reality and reportage, truth and the event, politics and ethics, that pertain under the 'War on Terror'. These transformations are summed up most clearly in Donald Rumsfeld's oft-quoted descriptionof the "unknown unknowns" and "unknown knowns" in which the 'War on Terror' must contend. The panel shows how culture-and visual culture in particular-has been a principal location in which the politics and the ethics of the 'War on Terror' have been received, worked through, negotiated, and understood. For consideration, please send a 400-500 word abstract, a current CV and any inquiries to Hamilton Carroll (h.e.m.carroll@leeds.ac.uk) by January 10th."
PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITIES IN FILM, ETC STUDIES
CAMERA LUCIDA
A handsome online film magazine from Croatia.
FLOW : A critical forum on television and media culture
"Flow is an online journal of television and media studies launched in October 2004. Flows mission is to provide a space where researchers, teachers, students, and the public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves." Check the Web site for more information.
JOURNAL OF MEDIA LITERACY EDUCATION
"The Journal of Media Literacy Education is an online interdisciplinary journal that supports the development of research, scholarship and the pedagogy of media literacy education."
MILLENIUM FILM JOURNAL
Reviews and articles.
QUARTERLY REVIEW OF FILM AND VIDEO
"The editors seek submissions of manuscripts in film, video, and moving image studies. The journal publishes five times per year (four regular issues, and one year-end special issue), and is now seeking selected articles for publication. QRFV is devoted to providing innovative perspectives from a broad range of methodologies, including writings on newly developing technologies, as well as essays and interviews in any area of film history, production, reception and criticism...There is no formal deadline; manuscripts are reviewed throughout the year." See the Web site for more information.
SCOPE: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies
An online journal from the Institute of Film & Television Studies, University of Nottingham, UK. Free and lots of articles and reviews.
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