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CFP: SCMS 2014, Proposed Panel


Surveillance Cinema Between East and West


From Rear Window and Man with a Movie Camera to Blow Up and Blade Runner, many of the best known films about surveillance and voyeurism originate in the western hemisphere.  These films depict a major aspect of contemporary modernity, but also eclipse comparable movies from some of the most populous and cinematically prolific regions of the world.  Such an oversight is troubling, and not only for overlooking half the globe.  Equally significant, by confining itself to an Anglo-Euro-American compass, this western-dominated archive of cinematic images of social and spatial monitoring elides the centrality of racial, cultural, and territorial difference within current and historical surveillance practices.  It ignores the distinct, often unique, and valuable ways that non-western cultures and spaces experience and conceptualize a phenomenon widely identified with modern life.

To remand this gap this panel invites papers that explore surveillance within film traditions outside of Hollywood and mainstream western cultural hegemony.  Like Michael Haneke’s unsettling Caché, such films acknowledge the prominent role of non-western cultures and spaces within current surveillance practices—and may go beyond Haneke by mining the peripheral perspective that Caché portrays only fleetingly.  Such films might include those exploring colonial experiences; those marking the borderlines demarcating politically and ideologically opposed states; or those about the experience of “eastern” bodies within “western” cultures and countries.  Submissions are encouraged to consider all terms in this rubric, problematizing not only what constitutes “east” and “west” but also the many different forms of “surveillance” and “cinema.”  These latter sites of encounter might mean films about surveillance experiences and practices, films that simulate surveillance itself, and the various ways in which film is itself subject to surveillance.

Suggested topics include (but are not limited to):

--Hindi “encounter” films
--Israeli and Palestinian “roadblock” movies
--censorship


Please send abstracts (no larger than 500) words to [log in to unmask], no later than August 1, 2013.

Next year’s SCMS conference will take place in Seattle, March 19-23, 2014.

Panel Chair: Karen Fang, Department of English, University of Houston

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