Studies in French Cinema News (September 2012) 1. Studies in French Cinema vol 12 no 3 2. Association for Studies in French Cinema website archived 3. Phil Powrie and BAFTSS 4. CFP Representation(s) of Migration in Contemporary French Cinema 5. New books ********************************************* 1. Studies in French Cinema vol 12 no 3 The next issue is a special number on women directors of the last decade. It contains: CARRIE TARR, Editorial: Women’s Filmmaking in France 2000-2010 TIM PALMER, Crashing the Millionaires’ Club: Popular Women’s Cinema in Twenty-first Century France SARAH LEAHY, ‘A la place de l’autre…’: Otherness, Gender and Nation in Two Films by Agnès Jaoui MARY HARROD, The Réalisactrice and the Rom-Com in the 2000s ISABELLE VANDERSCHELDEN, Réalisa(c)trices Screening the Self: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Maïwenn MARTINE BEUGNET, Encoding Loss: Corporeality and (Im)materiality in the Age of the Digital EMMA WILSON, Precarious Lives: On girls in Mia Hansen-Løve and Others CARRIE TARR, Filmography: Women’s Filmmaking in France 2000-2010 ********************************************* 2. Association for Studies in French Cinema website archived Our website is now archived in the UK Web Archive (http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ukwa/). You can find previous iterations of the website under ‘Studies in French Cinema’. ********************************************* 3. Phil Powrie and BAFTSS As you may already know if you are a member of the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, Phil Powrie has been elected as Vice-Chair of BAFTSS for three years. ********************************************* 4. CFP for panel « Représentation(s) de la migration dans le cinéma français contemporain/Representation(s) of Migration in Contemporary French Cinema», 44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA), March 21-24 2013, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts L’objet de ce panel est d’effectuer un tour d’horizon des représentations de la migration dans le cinéma français contemporain afin d’en dégager les principales tendances. Les réalisateurs d’aujourd’hui se sont-ils éloignés des schémas de représentation de la migration que l’on retrouve dans les films français des années 70, 80 et 90 traitant de la migration, et si oui, comment ? Avec le passage du temps et l’évolution du paysage social français mais aussi européen face à la mondialisation, de nouvelles problématiques et de nouveaux trajets migratoires ont vu le jour en France. Quels sont-ils aujourd’hui ? Quel est le visage de la migration en France de nos jours et comment ces femmes et ces hommes sont-ils perçus et représentés dans le cinéma français contemporain ? Nous utilisons ici le mot « migration » dans son acception la plus large, afin de rendre compte de l’incroyable variété des parcours et des individus décrits par les réalisateurs français contemporains. The goal of this session is to explore representations of migration in contemporary French cinema so as to identify current trends. Have film directors moved away from representative frameworks characteristic of French films of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s? With time and the changes French and European societies have undergone in the midst of globalization, new questions and new migratory trajectories have appeared. What are these questions and trajectories today? What is the face of migration in today’s France? How are these men and women perceived and represented in contemporary French cinema? The word “migration” is used here in a broad sense in order to account for the incredible variety of migratory trajectories and of individuals described by contemporary French directors. Papers can be in English or French. Send 300 word abstracts to Carole Salmon, University of Massachusetts Lowell, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Marianne Bessy, Furman University, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Deadline of Submission: September 30, 2012 Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation Email address Postal address Telephone number A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration) The 2013 NeMLA convention continues the Association's tradition of sharing innovative scholarship in an engaging and generative location. The 44th annual event will be held in historic Boston, Massachusetts, a city known for its national and maritime history, academic facilities and collections, vibrant art, theatre, and food scenes, and blend of architecture. The Convention, located centrally near Boston Commons and the Theatre District at the Hyatt Regency, will include keynote and guest speakers, literary readings, film screenings, tours and workshops. Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html Marianne Bessy, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of French Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Furman University 3300 Poinsett Highway Greenville, SC 29613 864-294-2407 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> (Fall 2012 in Versailles: +33.6.04.02.22.39.) ********************************************* 5. New books Ferzina Banaji, France, Film and the Holocaust: From Genocide to Shoah (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=570927 Emilie Bickerton, A Short History of the Cahiers du cinema (Verso, 2011). http://www.versobooks.com/books/1028-a-short-history-of-cahiers-du-cinema Anna Gural-Migdal, L'Ecrit-Ecran des Rougon-Macquart. Conceptions iconiques et filmiques du roman chez Zola (Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2012) http://www.septentrion.com/fr/imprimable/?GCOI=27574100611510 Jean-Pierre Boulé and Ursula Tidd, Existentialism and Contemporary Cinema: A Beauvoirian Perspective (Berghahn, 2012) http://berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=BouleExistentialismII Laura McMahon, Cinema and Contact: The Withdrawal of Touch in Nancy, Bresson, Duras and Denis (Legenda, 2012) http://www.legendabooks.com/titles/isbn/9781907975035.html ********************************************* _____________________________________________________ Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey GU2 7XH [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Faculty Administrative Officer and PA to the Dean: Linda Ellis < [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> >/+44 (0)1483689445 Webpage: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fahs/people/phil_powrie/index.htm Studies in French Cinema: http://surrey.ac.uk/fahs/research/sfc _____________________________________________________ ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org