1. Studies in French Cinema 14:1
2. The Self-Portrait in the Moving Image’, Birkbeck Cinema
3. New books
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Studies in French Cinema 14:1
This will contain the following articles.
SARAH DELAHOUSSE, Reimagining the criminal: The marketing of Louis Feuillade’s Fantômas (1913-14) and Les Vampires (1915) in the United States
MARGRIT TRÖHLER, Film-movement and the contagious power of analogies: On André Bazin’s conception of the cinematic spectator
THOMAS PILLARD, Une voix de star française sur des images américaines: Fernandel dans L’Ennemi public n°1 (Henri Verneuil, 1953)
ARMELLE BLIN-ROLLAND, Cinematic voices in Louis Malle’s adaptation of Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro
ALBERTINE FOX, Constructing voices in Jean-Luc Godard’s Sauve qui peut (la vie) (1979)
JENNY OYALLON-KOLOSKI, Genre Experimentation and Contemporary Dance in Jeanne et le garçon formidable
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2. The Self-Portrait in the Moving Image’, Birkbeck Cinema
Friday 28 February & Saturday 1 March 2014. Full details of programme:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/the-self-portrait-in-the-moving-image. Two-day ticket: £12 (concessions £8). Friday only: £5 (concessions £3). Saturday only: £10 (concessions £7).
To purchase tickets for this event, please go to: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/bimi/
Presentation:
Within the large field of first-person film and video (including autobiography, diary films, travelogues, video letters), self-portraiture is a singular form that does not consist so much of an account of the filmmaker’s intimate life as a representation of the artist by her/himself, at a given instant of her/his work. A very common practice in painting, self-portrait is more difficult to define in the moving image. It is a hybrid form, which has flourished in recent years and does not fit in with the traditional definition of documentary or fiction, as it breaks the canons of both genres. The investigative and self-reflexive stance of the self-portrait raises questions about the issue of intimacy (which ‘self’?), the appearance and corporeality of the subject (which face? which body? which voice?) and the medium itself (which film to make? for whom is it made?). This event proposes to reassess the practice of self-portraiture in the moving image by showcasing and discussing a broad variety of films, including works by Robert Kramer, Aleksandr Sokurov, Jonas Mekas, Vincent Dieutre, Jack Hazan, Chantal Akerman, Jean-Luc Godard, Agnes Varda, and Sarah Turner. It will also be an opportunity to discover some rarely screened experimental films, which will be projected in 16mm.? ?
Invited participants:
Cecilia Sayad (University of Kent), author of Performing Authorship, Self-Inscription and Corporeality in the Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2013); Laura Rascaroli (University College, Cork), author of The Personal Camera: Subjective Cinema and the Essay Film (Wallflower Press, 2009);
Alisa Lebow (University of Sussex), editor of The Cinema of Me: the Self and Subjectivity in First Person Documentary (Columbia University Press, 2012) and author of First Person Jewish (Minnesota, 2008).
Organised by Laura Busetta (PhD The Self-Portrait Film, Sapienza University of Rome, 2013), Marlène Monteiro (PhD candidate Exposed Intimacy, Birkbeck College), and Muriel Tinel-Temple (PhD The Filmic Self-Portrait, EHESS-Paris, 2004).
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3. New books
Fiona Handyside, Cinema at the Shore: The Beach in French Film, Lang
http://peterlangoxford.wordpress.com/2014/01/09/cinema-at-the-shore/
Nicholas Macdonald, In Search of La Grande Illusion: A Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir’s Elusive Masterpiece, McFarland.
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6270-4
Alain Naze, Jacques Demy: L'enfance retrouvée (L’Harmattan)
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&isbn=978-2-343-02575-9
Christophe Wall-Romana, Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry, Fordham UP
http://fordhampress.com/index.php/cinepoetry-cloth.html
Christophe Wall-Romana, Jean Epstein: Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy, Manchester UP
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719086236
Michael Witt, Jean-Luc Godard, Cinema Historian, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=807014
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Phil Powrie
Professor of Cinema Studies
Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
The Elizabeth Fry Building
University of Surrey
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Webpage: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fahs/people/phil_powrie/index.htm
Chief General Editor Studies in French Cinema: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/sfc
Vice-Chair British Association of Film Television and Screen Studies: http://www.baftss.org/
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