Dear All, Again,



I see that the powers that be filtered the attachment that I intended to 

send. So I am pasting the Bristol CFP below. Apologies for any awkward 

formatting.



Best Regards,

Scott Higgins

Associate Professor of Film Studies

Wesleyan University

Middletown CT.

Colour and the Moving Image: History, Theory, Aesthetics, Archive





Conference: 10th July - 12th July 2009, Bristol, UK



Keynote speakers: Tom Gunning University of Chicago, Laura Mulvey Birkbeck,



'An inquiry into colour can take you just about anywhere' (David Batchelor, 

Chromophobia, 2000).



Call for Papers: This conference addresses questions emerging through a 

renewed interest in colour film and as an interdisciplinary subject. The 

event is part of an AHRC-funded project on colour film, led by Professor 

Sarah Street. While colour is a fundamental element of film forms, 

technologies and aesthetics it is rarely singled-out for analysis. The aim 

of the conference is to extend previous work on colour and to consider its 

form and functions from a range of perspectives within four major strands: 

histories and technologies; film theory; philosophies and aesthetics of 

colour; the ethics, practices and theories surrounding the deterioration 

and conservation of colour film. In addition to formal conference papers, 

the event will include screenings of prints from the BFI National Archive 

as an occasion to mark the 50th Anniversary of Screen. We invite proposals 

which address broad issues raised by colour and the moving image. The 

conference will provide a forum for discussion which is informed by, and 

directly addresses, the interrelations of the theory, history and 

aesthetics of colour film and of moving image technologies in their 

broadest sense. Proposals which focus on questions of colour in one or more 

of the following areas are particularly welcome:



    * star systems

    * reception theory

    * pre-filmic, pro-filmic and onscreen spaces

    * fantasy, spectacle, realism and/ or 'natural' colour

    * synaesthesia: theories and practices of the interrelations of colour, 

sound, music as sensation

    * chromophilia/chromophobia

    * theories formulated at the intersections of colour theory, film 

theory and/or philosophy

    * distanciation and avant garde film making, histories and theories

    * colour and genre

    * film histories and new technologies: video, DVD, small screen 

technologies as new viewing spaces

    * Colour systems including Kinemacolor, Dufaycolor, Chemicolor, 

Agfacolor, Technicolor, Eastmancolor



We invite abstracts of c. 200 words for individual papers or 

pre-constituted panels consisting of 3 papers to be submitted by 1st 

September 2008. Please send abstracts to 

<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] 

. If you prefer to submit your abstract by post, the address is as follows: 

Colour and the Moving Image Conference, c/o Dr Liz Watkins, Department of 

Drama: Theatre, Film, Television, Cantocks Close, Woodland Road, University 

of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 1UP, UK.



Theory, Aesthetics, Archive is hosted by the Department of Drama: Theatre, 

Film, Television, University of Bristol in association with Kingston 

University and with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. 

Screenings in co-operation with the BFI National Archive, UK and supported 

by Screen as one of its 50th Anniversary regional events.



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