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Trinity College, Cambridge
CB2 1TQ, United Kingdom
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk
ore 9.00
organizzato da:
The British Academy
CRASSH - Centre
for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and
Humanities
The Tiarks Fund - Department of German, University of Cambridge
The Judith E. Wilson Fund - Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Trinity College
partecipano:
Emma Wilson (French, Cambridge), Andrew Webber (German, Cambridge),
David Trotter (English, Cambridge), François Penz (CU Moving Image
Studio, Cambridge), William Uricchio (Comparative Media Studies, MIT)
The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to explore the interactions
between film technologies and the modern metropolis. Its main historical
focus will be divided between the formative decades of the film medium
in relation to the Modernist city and the contemporary diversification
of technologies of filming in relation to the postmodern city. Its
geographical focus will encompass European, US, and World Cinemas,
and ask questions about the national, international, and global reach
of film cultures as evidenced by city-based genres.
The city as the dominant organising structure of modern culture has
become a key place of interest for a variety of disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences, focusing on issues such as control,
mapping, transportation, memory, inclusion and exclusion. Different
disciplines have developed their own methods of orientation in the
study of the city, but it has also become a meeting-place, a site
of encounter and exchange between disciplinary perspectives. Similarly,
film is increasingly used as a material focus for different modes
of social and cultural study, and here too methodological challenges
and dialogues have emerged.
The primary aim of this conference is to bring together, with a view
to dialogue and debate, three distinct constituencies: film-makers
with a pronounced theoretical and archival interest; scholars, both
emerging and established, in film and media studies; and scholars,
both emerging and established, in disciplines other than film and
media studies. It will have succeeded if the three constituencies
are less distinct at the end of it than they were at the beginning.
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