Studies in French Cinema News (April 2013) 1. SFC Annual Conference 2. New books ********************************************* 1. SFC Annual Conference, Middlesex University, 27 June 2013 The provisional programme is now available. The keynote will be given by Sarah Cooper (King’s College, London) on ‘Thoughts of the Soul: Revisiting the Body of French Film Theory’. The other papers to be given on this one-day conference are as follows: Elizabeth Benjamin - How am I not myself? Dada Cinema’s Existential Crisis, or, the Authenticity of Ambiguity Marie Berne - L’animal en gros plan : redécouvrir le cinéma de Jean Painlevé Jocopo Bodini - The desire-image: an anti-oedipal lecture of François Truffaut’s cinema Katrine Chevalier - Derrière les masques du cinéma français Julia Dobson - Special Affects: the melodrama and / of spectatorship in De Rouille et d'os (Audiard 2012) Jeff Fort - From the Photogram to the Monogram: Blanchot, Nancy, Kant and the Death Mask of Cinema Albertine Fox - Ravel and the Listening Body in Jean-Luc Godard’s Lettre à Freddy Buache (1982) and Puissance de la parole (1988) Laura McMahon - Animal worlds: Denis Côté’s Bestiaire (2012) Giuseppina Mecchia - Time, Sense and the Image: On the “French” Cinema of Raoul Ruiz Henry Miller - Film and Reality Keith Reader - The banlieue in 1930s French cinema Chiara Tognolotti - Marie Epstein, or The Lady Doesn’t Vanish Anymore Laura Vichi - Le documentaire, libérateur du cinéma et source de photogénie See here for further details: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/fahs/research/sfc/annualconference/index.htm ********************************************* 2. New books Michael Gott and Thibault Schilt (eds), Open Roads, Closed Borders: The Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4932/ Samuel Lelièvre LA LUMIÈRE DE SOULEYMANE CISSÉ (L”Harmattan, 2013) http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&isbn=978-2-343-00201-9 Lucy Mazdon and Catherine Wheatley, French Film in Britain - Sex, Art and Cinephilia (Berghahn, 2013) https://www.berghahnbooks.com/extras/docs/flyer/MazdonFrench_9780857453501.html Philip Mosley, The Cinema of the Dardenne Brothers: Responsible Realism (Wallflower, 2013) http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16328-6/the-cinema-of-the-dardenne-brothers Boukary Sawadogo LES CINÉMAS FRANCOPHONES OUEST-AFRICAINS (L”Harmattan, 2013) http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&isbn=978-2-296-99827-8 ********************************************* _____________________________________________________ Phil Powrie Professor of Cinema Studies Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences The Elizabeth Fry Building 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 _____________________________________________________ ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu