Dr. Mabuse's Kaleido-Scope

An Open Letter to Web Based Film Bloggers and Critics

2011-07-19T07:49:00.000-07:00

To my fellow, web based, film critics and bloggers, I’ve kept widely silent on the ethical issue of set visits, swag, and the potential effects they have on our online community for roughly a year. Those following my Twitter feed (@damorton16) and noticing that I regularly write for Pajiba can probably infer what side of the line I’m on but, before I get to that, a brief context could serve

Adaptations - MPCA/MACA

2011-03-24T11:32:00.000-07:00

I am currently seeking original work in the area of FILM ADAPTATIONS for the annual Midwest Popular Culture Association/Midwest American Culture Association Annual Conference. Abstracts can include a wide variety of approaches to Adaptation Studies. These may include research on film adaptations of literary works, comic books, video games, television shows, mythology, other films, radio shows,

CFP: Global Innovations in Post-World War II Cinema (MSA 13; Oct 6-9, 2011)

2011-01-04T18:18:00.000-08:00

Prospective Conference PanelModernist Studies Association 13: Structures of Innovation, Buffalo, NYDeadline for submissions: April 1, 2011 As the field of “new modernist studies” continues grappling with its geohistorical expansions, and also its containment within definitional and disciplinary boundaries, Susan Stanford Friedman proposes a transformative model of “planetary modernist studies” in

CFP: New essays for collection on Nicholas Ray

2010-09-24T12:26:00.000-07:00

Going Home: Essays on Nicholas Ray in Cinema CultureEditors: Steven Rybin and Will ScheibelWe are currently accepting proposals for a new collection of essays on Nicholas Ray, tentatively titled Going Home: Essays on Nicholas Ray in Cinema Culture. A university press has shown an interest in this collection.Ray was the “cause célèbre of the auteur theory,” as critic Andrew Sarris once put it,

SCMS CFP: All-Consuming Identities: Media, Identity, Consumption

2010-08-02T10:30:00.000-07:00

The emphasis on appealing to niche audiences in contemporary media products has encouraged interest in exploiting perceptible and potentially profitable identity traits—including race, class, gender, and sexuality—as a way to marshal consumption by specific audiences and to extend the value of consumable media beyond their originary forms. This kind of exploitation may seem to be the direct

[Reminder]: CFP: Auteur as Citizen: Nicholas Ray and New Directions in Director Studies

2010-07-22T10:43:00.001-07:00

Prospective Panel: Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 10-13, 2011Ritz Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, LADeadline for submissions: Sunday, August 8, 2010 11:59 PM EDTRespondent: Dana Polan, Professor of Cinema Studies at New York University and author of In a Lonely Place (BFI Publishing, 1993)Submissions are still welcome for essays that consider the relationship between film

SCMS CFPs: 'Filming the Internet,' 'Appropriating Vertigo'

2010-07-08T16:15:00.000-07:00

Here are two SCMS CFPs on interesting topics from a former and a current student - Anthony Coman and Paul Petrovic.sb-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Filming the Internet John Badham's 1983 film War Games marked the beginning of cinema's relationship with a new medium: the Internet. Since then, as the technology has become ubiquitous in homes

Hollywood On-the-Air: Rehistoricizing Cinema and Radio

2010-07-05T09:07:00.000-07:00

With the influx of new research on media convergence, this panel explores the relationship between two of the most popular American entertainment mediums of the last century: radio and cinema. As film grew in popularity during the first half of the 20th century, so did radio, with the U.S. Census reporting by 1950 that 95 percent of the country owned receivers. This panel will discuss the

CFP: Auteur as Citizen: Nicholas Ray and New Directions in Director Studies

2010-06-14T12:09:00.000-07:00

Prospective Panel:Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference, March 10-13, 2011Ritz Carlton Hotel, New Orleans, LADeadline for submissions: Sunday, August 8, 2010 11:59 PM EDTEssay submissions sought that consider the relationship between film authorship and citizenship with respect to Nicholas Ray, director of They Live By Night (1949), In a Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Rebel

Debating Roger Ebert on Video Games

2010-04-21T18:47:00.000-07:00

Film critic Roger Ebert recently elaborated (http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/04/video_games_can_never_be_art.html) on his controversial statement that “video games cannot be art.” Now, I should note as a hopeful cinema studies scholar that Roger’s work pushed me to study film and I constantly find myself reflecting on his Great Movies books. However, I am also a hopeful media studies

Deadline extended for SAMLA: Flannery O'Connor in Film

2010-04-01T15:38:00.000-07:00

CFP: Flannery O'Connor in FilmSouth Atlantic Modern Language Association2010 Conference (Atlanta, GA November 5-7).Abstracts due: April 30.contact email: akking@olemiss.eduThis panel affiliated with the Flannery O'Connor Society welcomespapers that explore the SAMLA 2010 special focus "The Interplay ofText and Image" in O'Connor and film. While papers dealing with filmadaptations of O'Connor's

Adaptations - MPCA/MACA, Oct 1-3 2010, Minneapolis

2010-03-28T17:26:00.000-07:00

CFP: Understanding Machinima

2010-03-13T00:56:00.001-08:00

Hi allI'm working on putting together a collection on machinima (filmmaking in virtual worlds) and it would be great to have some contributions from Mabusers! Machinima kinda falls between film and other media (virtual worlds, games (Drew?)) but I think/hope there is potential. Take a look! CheersJenna**********************************UNDERSTANDING MACHINIMA: essays on filmmaking in virtual

Call For Work: OPEN SPACE/SINGAPORE/SOUTHEAST ASIA

2010-02-25T08:18:00.000-08:00

OPEN SPACE/SINGAPORE/SOUTHEAST ASIACALL FOR SUBMISSIONSWe seek submissions for a curated online and on-site exhibition exploring the theme of Open Space. This exhibition will be showcased at the International Communication Association (ICA) Conference in Singapore from June 22-26, 2010. Open Space is mounted as the digital arts exploration of the conference theme Im/Material.WHAT IS OPEN SPACE?

CFP: Toward a Social Cinema: The Left Bank Group & the Political Documentary

2010-02-17T19:39:00.000-08:00

Visible Evidence Panel Proposal for 2010:This panel explores the phenomenon Richard Roud famously called the “Left Bank Cinema” in documentaries by Chris Marker, Alain Resnais, Agnès Varda, Georges Franju, Jean Rouch, Edgar Morin and lesser-known contemporaries Eli Lotar and Nicole Védrès. In addition, we will trace antecedents as far back as Jean Vigo’s A propos de Nice, Vigo’s 1930 manifesto,

South Atlantic Modern Language Association: Flannery O'Connor in Film

2010-02-07T09:40:00.000-08:00

This panel affiliated with the Flannery O'Connor Society welcomes papers that explore the SAMLA 2010 special focus "The Interplay of Text and Image" in O'Connor and film. While papers dealing with film adaptations of O'Connor's works will be considered, the session's specific goal is to expand our understanding of how filmmakers have incorporated and/or have contrasted O'Connor's themes,

MCLLM Conference

2010-01-26T09:15:00.000-08:00

The 18th annualMidwest Conference on Language, Literature, and Media (MCLLM)will be held April 9-10, 2010 at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.Keynote speaker:Dr. George Lakoff, University of California-Berkeley,author of Metaphors We Live By (1980), Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind (1987), Philosophy In The Flesh: the Embodied Mind and its

Save UI Cinema & Comparative Literature

2010-01-20T20:21:00.000-08:00

Below is a message from Prof. Corey Creekmur posted today on the SCMS website. As graduate of The University of Iowa's cinema program, I wanted to help spread the word. Discouraging to say the least. Dear Alumni and Friends,An ad hoc entity called the Provost's Task Force on Graduate Education and Selective Excellence has just recommended the elimination of the PhD program in Film Studies at

New Special Issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies

2010-01-11T09:25:00.000-08:00

I am very pleased to say that my special issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies has just been published. It explores processes of adaptation in film, television and new media. Hope you enjoy.Cultural Borrowings: Appropriation, Reworking, Transformation Edited by Iain Robert SmithClick here to access the full issue--Part I: Hollywood Cinema and Artistic

CFP: Visible Evidence 2010

2009-12-24T09:37:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,This year, Visible Evidence, the international conference on documentary film and media will be held in my home turf Istanbul and I am helping with the organization so I wanted to post the CFP here to encourage you colleagues/friends to submit an abstract. I would be happy to show anyone around while I am there so don't miss this opportunity to consider a summer trip to the good old

Will's top 15 films of the aughts

2009-12-15T08:20:00.000-08:00

Hi all,I hope everyone's fall semesters are drawing to a close smoothly. Last month, there was some talk about how to reinvigorate Mabuse with a "Top 10 of the Decade" list. Having just finished counting down my 15 favorite U. S. fiction films of the aughts over at my personal blog, I thought I'd post the list here if anyone is interested (and I'd love to see others' picks). It's not exactly

SCMS 2010

2009-11-16T19:37:00.000-08:00

I was just commenting last week on Jason's post that soon we'll be talking about SCMS 2010. If you check the site under Conference Submission Forms - where you originally submitted your proposal - there should be a status update to the right of your proposal info.Hope everybody did OK, though I know it was a tough year. I hope as many old and new Mabuse faces as possible will be present.I thought

An Idea to Reinvigorate Mabuse...

2009-11-12T09:21:00.001-08:00

Since we're coming to the end of the decade (I know, not officially, but for what everyone refers to as the Aughts), and every critic and their mother seems to be coming up with a "Top 10 of the Decade" list, why don't we create something similar but with a little twist to it? A series called "Things We Loved About the Aughts," if you will. Basically you can pick some part of pop culture from

CFP: Canadian Journal of Film Studies

2009-08-30T08:07:00.000-07:00

The editors of CJFS/RCEC - Charles Acland (Communication Studies) and Catherine Russell (Film Studies) at Concordia University, Montreal - seek submissions of manuscripts in film and moving image studies for the following special topics issues. The recommended maximum length for articles is 6000 words. La Revue publie les manuscrits rédigés en français ou en anglais.