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Studies in French Cinema News (August 2013)


1. Prize-winning article

2. CFP North African Cinema

3. AFHRC latest issue

4. New books

5. Promoting your books on French cinema


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1. Prize-winning article

Eun-Jee Park’s article ‘The politics of friendship and paternity: The Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta’, published in Studies in French Cinema 12:2 (2012), has won the Korean Research Foundation prize for the Best Essay of the Year. Eun-Jee is Research Professor of Cinema Studies in the Institute For Mediterranean Studies at Busan University for Foreign Studies.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=13185/

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2. CFP North African Cinema

Call for Papers Journal of African Cinemas – Special Issue on North African Cinema
Guest Editor: Dr Stefanie Van de Peer
North African cinema has suffered from neglect in studies on African cinema. It’s hinge-like geographical position – is it Africa, the Middle East or part of the Mediterranean, or all of these – not only provides a richness in transcultural and historical diversity, it could also be one of the causes of it being inadvertently ignored. The region’s rich transcultural nature – Arab, African and Mediterranean has been such a creative space for film production, both mainstream and politically dissident films, that it cannot be ignored any longer. The Journal of African Cinemas is the ideal platform to address this lacuna in African Cinema Studies. The premise of this special issue is to offer an avenue to coherently explore this neglected field of study over the decades, to integrate North African cinema firmly within African cinema studies, and offer an open space to the North African pioneers as well as the more recent innovators and politically motivated films from North of the continent.
This issue calls for scholarly papers covering issues of the transnational life of film in both the past and the present. The introduction to the special issue will offer a coherent overview of how North African cinema has contributed to the history of African cinema. Papers are invited about, on the one hand, the pioneers of filmmaking in the early 20th century, as well as politically motivated postcolonial filmmakers from the 1960s – and why they remain hidden. On the other hand, the issue will explore the recent emergence of citizen journalism and the power of online distribution channels that have opened up the world to images and their politics from the region. The issue is interested in how these films saw the light of day and where they have travelled (who funded, produced, directed and saw them), and how they entered the collective memory in spite of the lack of written studies. This issue therefore aims to tease out the life of North African films on a local, regional and transnational scale.
The editor would be interested in receiving proposals on the following (non-exhaustive) list of issues:
·       Egyptian pioneers in 1900s
·       Lumière brothers’ contribution to film in the Maghreb
·       France’s influence on Maghreb cinema
·       Algerian political documentaries / historical epics and their dynamics
·       The role of women in North African Cinemas
·       Libyan films and/or lack thereof
·       Moroccan cinema since the 1990s
·       North African films at FESPACO
·       Egyptian and Tunisian films since 2011

Please submit abstracts and metadata to the Guest Editor, including:

·       Name and affiliation
·       Title of article
·       Mailing address
·       Email
·       Bio (100-120 words)
·       Abstract (300 words)
·       Keywords (6 in low case, one under the other)

Dr Stefanie Van de Peer [[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>]
Research Co-ordinator, Department of Film Studies, University of St Andrews

Due Date for Abstracts:  31 August 2013
Submission of Full Paper:  31 January 2014

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3. AFHRC latest issue

The latest issue of 1895 REVUE D’HISTOIRE DU CINEMA is now available.

http://www.afrhc.fr/2013/06/1895-revue-dhistoire-du-cinema-n69/

This issue (number 69, spring 2013) focuses especially on film preservation and restoration.

The “point of view” article is written by PAOLO CHERCHI USAI, who questions current film preservation policies and practices particularly in relation to digital technologies.

The “archives” section presents a dossier around the recent restoration of Méliès’s VOYAGE DANS LA LUNE.

There follow three “studies”: Frédéric Tabet discusses the influence of THÉÂTRE NOIR magic shows on early trick films; Aurore Lüscher analyses Abel Gance’s GAZ MORTELS; and Ania Szczepanska examines film censorship in Communist Poland.

In the very substantial “actualities” section, readers will find a wide range of reviews of recent publications, DVDs, conferences and festivals from around the world. Notably the current issue features two review essays on the historiography of African and Greek cinemas respectively.

Published three times per year, 1895 REVUE D’HISTOIRE DU CINEMA is the journal of the French association of film historians (AFRHC). Apart from its scholarly value, the journal is beautifully produced and often includes a free DVD featuring rare films and archive material.

Individual subscriptions cost 40 euro (30 euro for students), institutional subscriptions are 60 euro. Subscribers become members of the association with voting rights and other privileges.

Payment can be made online at http://www.afrhc.fr/adhesion/


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4. New books

Eric Costeix, Alain Resnais: La mémoire de l'éternité (LHarmattan)
http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&isbn=978-2-343-00935-3

Jonathan Ervine, Cinema and the Republic: Filming on the Margins in Contemporary France (University of Wales Press)
http://www.gwales.com/bibliographic/?isbn=9780708325964&tsid=3


James S. Williams, Space and being in contemporary French cinema (Manchester University Press).
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719084324


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5. Promoting your books on French cinema

James Williams has drawn my attention to the New Books Network, an American open-access platform which posts interviews with academics about their new books. It's all for free and the interviews are conducted by nominated 'hosts'. Among the many areas listed are French Studies and Film Studies. The host for French studies is actually an historian, Roxanne Panchasi, based in Vancouver, although she has a longstanding interest in film (she wrote a piece on Malle, for example, for the recent Mai 68 book James co-edited). She approached James to do a one-hour interview via Skype (audio only), and it's just been posted, x-listed with Film Studies. Here's the link:  http://newbooksinfilm.com/. The page includes a direct link to amazon.com<http://amazon.com/> and also the Faculty page. Roxanne is definitely up for more interviews on French film, and, together with the Film Studies list, there could be a real opportunity here for colleagues to reach a wider, non-specialist public (eg the massive i-Tunes audience). It should in turn help to promote French film studies in the UK.


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Phil Powrie
Professor of Cinema Studies
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences
The Elizabeth Fry Building
University of Surrey
GU2 7XH

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