1. Studies in French Cinema Journal
Issue 6:2 has just appeared:
83-94 Daniel Yacavone, Space, theme, and movement in Trois couleurs: Rouge
95-105 Laura Rascaroli, The place of the heart: scaling spaces in Robert Guédiguian's cinema
107-115 David Montero, Film also ages: time and images in Chris Marker's Sans soleil
117-127 Catherine Wheately, The masochistic fantasy made flesh: Michael Haneke's La Pianiste as melodrama
129-140 Susan Weiner, When a prostitute becomes an orphan: Pierre Mac Orlan's Le Quai des brumes (1927) in the service of poetic realism
141-150 Frédéric Gimelle-Mesplomb, The economy of 1950s popular French cinema
The next issue 6:3 will contain:
161-169 Asbjørn Grønstad, Abject desire: Anatomie de l'enfer and the unwatchable
171-181 Tim Palmer, Under your skin: Marina de Van and the contemporary French cinéma du corps
183-194 Allen H. Redmon, 'Come Out of Here, My People': Pandemonium and Power in Carl Theodor Dreyer's La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc
195-205 Tony McKibbin, Amplification over procrastination: searching out the possible in Va Savoir
207-217 Oliver C. Speck, The cesspool of colonial cinema: Coup de torchon by Bertrand Tavernier
219-230 Colin Burnett, Muting the image: lighting and photochemical techniques of Bresson's cinematographers
Read the abstracts for the above issues here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/crif/sfc/downloads/abstracts1.doc
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2. Conference 2007: Next year's conference has as its theme 'Sensing Film: Body, Genre and Audience in French Cinema'; a call for papers will soon be circulated.
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3. Call for papers: Francophonies en Images
Kalamazoo Symposium on Pedagogical
Applications of French and Francophone Films
March 16, 2007
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
Proposal submission deadline: November 1st, 2006
Proposal acceptance notification: January 2007
The Symposium on Pedagogical Applications of French and Francophone Films will be
held March 16, 2007 during the Sixth Francophone Film Festival of Kalamazoo on the
Western Michigan University campus, Kalamazoo, Michigan. The symposium welcomes
presentation proposals on the use of French and Francophone films in the French
classroom at the high-school and university levels. Submissions related to theoretical
aspects of French and Francophone film studies are also encouraged. The proceedings of
the symposium will be subsequently published online.
Submitting a Proposal. Please create two (2) Word documents:
1. Create a title page for your submission. The title page should include:
a. title of the submission
b. presentation format:
* focus on pedagogy (30 min + 10 min Q & A)
* focus on theory (20 min + 10 min Q & A)
c. name(s) of the author(s)
d. department(s) and affiliation(s)
e. mailing address(es)
f. e-mail address(es)
g. phone number(s)
h. fax number(s)
i. Equipment needed: overhead projector, computer projector, VCR, DVD player. Note
to DVD users: recording the scenes to be shown on your hard drive and playing them
directly from there may be more convenient than trying to find a cue from a DVD.
2. Create an abstract page:
* The abstract should be anonymous, clearly titled and 450 words in length. It
should also fit on one page, with an optional second page for references or figures
if required. Please note the word count at the bottom of the abstract.
* Abstracts submitted must represent original, unpublished research.
* Please use the first author's last name as the file name for your document. (e.g.,
smith.doc)
* The deadline for abstract submission is November 1st, 2006.
Please e-mail both your abstract and your title page separately to
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Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged via email within 48 hours.
If you do not wish to email your submission, you may send it via regular mail or fax to:
Francophonies en Images: Kalamazoo Symposium on Pedagogical Applications of
French and Francophone Films
c/o Viviane Ruellot
Western Michigan University
Department of Foreign Languages
420 Sprau Tower
1903 West Michigan Avenue
Kalamazoo, MI 49008 USA
Fax: (269) 387-6663
***If submitting via regular mail, please supply two copies of your submission***
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