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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)

19-23 March 2014

Seattle, Washington, USA

http://cmstudies.org



Paper proposals are sought for the following panel to be submitted 

for consideration to the SCMS 2013-14 Program Committee:



WORKING TITLE: Thinking with a Camera during Revolutionary Times: 

Generative Visualities in the Middle East



SUMMARY DESCRIPTION: As recent images from across the Arab world have 

revealed a renewed investment in political visibility, we ask what 

does this interface between street politics and online activism mean 

for the way we make sense of images of resistance? In an effort to 

refine our assumptions about the political significance and efficacy 

of the documentary image, we compare and contrast recent innovations 

with historical modalities in ways that highlight the generative 

possibilities of "thinking with a camera," aesthetic differences 

notwithstanding. While the region is undeniably beleaguered by 

simplistic representations, these practices illuminate possibilities 

for different ways of knowing the region as well as rethinking what 

constitutes the political.



Please e-mail a 250-300-word abstract, along with a brief 

biographical statement and a 5-entry bibliography, by August 18 to:

Mark Westmoreland - [log in to unmask]  AND

Terri Ginsberg - [log in to unmask] 



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