SCMS 2004 French cinema panel

Call for proposals for a panel at the 2004 Society for Cinema and Media
Studies annual conference, to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, March
4-7,
2004.

Conference site: http://www.cinemastudies.org/04conf/2004Call.htm

Selected proposals will become 20 minute presentations, with Q and A to
follow.



AT THE VANGUARD OF FRENCH FILM

This panel will explore and analyze recent French and Francophone
cinema.
Its focus will be on those films/directors/stylistic or representational

tendencies/reception developments that are at the forefront of
contemporary
French film, particularly those figures or issues not yet addressed
within
Film Studies. Possible areas include but are not limited to: new
feminist
cinema, iconoclastic filmmakers, narratives of sex and sexuality,
arthouse/entertainment cross-overs, politics and the mainstream, genre
hybridity, shifts in film style (especially digital filmmaking), changes
to
the French critical landscape, etc.

Please send a 300-400 word abstract and brief biography to Tim Palmer,
Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Department of Film, University of
North
Carolina at Wilmington. Email: [log in to unmask]

DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: AUGUST 15th, 2003

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