CFP: CINEMA AND THE POSTMETROPOLIS Submissions are sought for a panel entitled _Cinema and the Postmetropolis_ at the 2009 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Tokyo, Japan (May 21-24, 2009). Urban geographer Edward Soja has developed the term postmetropolis to describe the future-oriented urbanism of the late capitalist age of globalization. From the fractal city to the simcity, and from the cosmopolis to the exopolis, the postmetropolis can take on many forms. Drawing on Soja's constructions but also looking beyond his work to other ways of conceptualizing the contemporary city, this panel considers how cinema engages the new kinds of urban spaces and experiences that have emerged as a consequence of globalization. Papers addressing cinema and the postmetropolis in ways that relate to the overall conference theme (mobilizing the future/screening the past) are particularly welcome. Please visit the SCMS website for more details about the 2009 conference : http://www.cmstudies.org/ Send 300-word abstract and a full academic CV (as separate email attachments) by August 1, 2008, to: Christoph Lindner ([log in to unmask]) Christoph Lindner Assistant Professor of Film and Literature Department of English Northern Illinois University DeKalb, IL 60115, USA Email: [log in to unmask] http://www.engl.niu.edu/clindner ---- Learn to speak like a film/TV professor! Listen to the ScreenLex podcast: http://www.screenlex.org