----------------------------Original message---------------------------- CINEMA CONFERENCE - KENT STATE UNIVERSITY THE PLEASURE OF INTERPRETATION: THE NEO-BAROQUE SCOPIC REGIME IN THE POSTMODERN TIME Time: October 6-8, 1995 broadly defined the baroque in the visual arts followed the Renaisance and the Manneristic phase. In addition to a considerable amount of artifice, it included parody, intertexuality and carnivalization, but its main characteristic was a superabundance of disparate elements and forms combined with great freedom and accentuation of excess. The affinities of the baroque and its ahistorical style and scopic regime with the rubric of postmodernism have induced one critic to label our time as "the neo-baroque time." In the cinema, these transhistorical correspondences constitute a complex and fascinating production of expressions which deserve investigation. Posible topics: -Figurative proliferation(s) -Trompe l'oeil: multiperspective -The replicant: rhythm and repetition -The pleasure of memory: the imaginary equilibria -Forms and questions of genders -De-centered geometries -Carnivalization: parody and subversion -Scopic spaces -Mirrors -Dynamism -Dialogism -Cataloguing disorder -The maze/the marvel, the labyrinth -Ex-centricity and instability -Technologies of morphogenesis -Limlt and excess, etc. All abstracts will be subject to review by the conference editorial advisory board. Papers presented at the conference will be selected for refereed publication. Abstracts of papers (200-300 words with explicit thesis) must be submited by April 7, 1995 to: Cristina Degli-Esposti, Conference Director Dept. of Modern and Classical Language Studies Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242 Fax: 216-672-4009 -----GGG