1. Studies in French Cinema annual conference call (Screen sounds) 2. Studies in French Cinema vol 8 no 3 published 3. New book by one of our members **************************************** 1. Studies in French Cinema annual conference call (Screen sounds) * Conference 2009,** **King’s College London, **14 April 2009: **Screen Sounds* Papers are invited on any aspect of sound in French cinema. Since the 1980s, the study of sound has been opened up by scholars including Michel Chion (1994, 1999), Rick Altman (1980), Claudia Gorbman (1987), and Caryl Flinn (1992, 2004), who have explored aspects of sound in film from the voice and soundtrack to music. Such studies have been influential in shifting the emphasis in film studies away from the purely visual, and towards the conceptualisation of film ‘viewing’ as a multi-sensory experience. The study of sound can help our understanding of a wide range of issues in film studies, including questions of identity, performance, film form and the relation between the visual and the aural. Topics may include (but are not limited to): · Music and film · Sound in the silent cinema · The transition to sound cinema · Soundtrack · Dialogue · The voice Papers must be submitted in written form by 15 March 2009 for pre-circulation to delegates. Participants will be invited to speak for 10 minutes, highlighting the key points of their paper and indicating areas for discussion. Proposals of 200-300 words should be submitted by December 31 to Sarah Leahy ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>). **************************************** 2. Studies in French Cinema vol 8 no 3 published It contains: * Rebecca J. DeRoo, //Unhappily ever after: Visual irony and feminist strategy in Agnès Varda's/ Le Bonheur/ (1965) * Susan Hayward, Reviewing Quality Cinema: French Costume Drama of the 1950s * Tijana Mamula, Matricide, Indexicality and Abstraction in Chantal Akerman’s /News from Home/ (1976) and /Là-bas/ (2005) * Kristi McKim, Time, scale and cinephilia in the cinematic elegy: Agnès Varda’s/ Jacquot de/ /Nantes/ (1991) * Phil Powrie with Eric Rebillard, Josephine Baker and Pierre Batcheff in /La Sirène des tropiques/ (1927) * Gregg Redner, Fragments of a Life: Becoming-music/woman in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s /Trois couleurs: bleu/ (1993) **************************************** 3. New book by one of our members Nick Rees-Roberts, French Queer Cinema, Edinburgh University Press French Queer Cinema looks at queer self-representation in contemporary auteur film and experimental video in France and is the first comprehensive study of the cultural formation and critical reception of contemporary queer film and video. http://www.euppublishing.com/book/9780748634187 October 2008 176pp Hb 978 0 7486 3418 7 £50.00 **************************************** -- Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Sheffield The Rotunda Firth Court Western Bank Sheffield S10 2TN Email: [log in to unmask] PA: [log in to unmask] / +44 (0)114 222 1104 ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]