CALL FOR PAPERS: “Critical Communities:  Writing on Film as a Shared Experience” 
(Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference panel, Chicago, March 6-10, 2013)

Film scholars, columnists, and fans have contributed to the formation of communities of debate. Shared viewing has been complemented by kinship of reading. The conference panel places fanzines, cinephiliac journals and blogs, and academic research in the context of their intended and unintended effects of providing common grounds for groups of similar tastes, interests, and agendas. 

Possible topics may include:

-  Historical inquiry into the communities participating in specific debates on specific films or issues.

- The critical readership as an imagined community; the creation of national communities through writing on film; invocations of common memories in nostalgic publications.

- Rethinking cinephilia in light of the tension between individuation and socialization; Web 2.0 and its impact on cinephiliac communities.

- The challenges posed by the emphasis on critical communities to distinctions such as those between fandom, criticism, and high theory; between scopophilic viewing and logocentric reading.

Please indicate your interest at your earliest convenience to: [log in to unmask]
Abstracts of 250 words, along with a short bio, will be accepted until Monday, August 20th; I will communicate with all applicants by Thursday, August 23rd.

Yomi Braester
Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies
University of Washington, Seattle
http://faculty.washington.edu/yomi



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