Film Aesthetics and European Cinema
European Cinema Research Forum 2007
In Association with STUDIES IN EUROPEAN CINEMA from Intellect Press.
To be hosted by the Program of Film Studies at
The Ohio State University
April 27-29, 2007
Keynote speakers and events to be announced
Since its inception at the end of the nineteenth century, film in Europe has been distinctly international and even intercontinental. While industrial institutions of production, distribution, and reception have served (or tried) to restrict cinematic markets in order to control and direct profits, and while generic conventions have tended to become dominant at the expense of elements that were once counted as the essence of cinema, film in all its forms generates possibilities of what Kracauer called "aesthetic apprehension" that far exceed those limitations. At this year's European Cinema Research Forum, we invite scholars from across a range of disciplines to reflect on the tensions between projections of national or European cinemas and the aesthetics of film. The organizers welcome submissions pertaining to issues including but not limited to:
- questions of methodology
- the possibility of contextually specific aesthetic moments
- the historically embedded nature of film form
- film and other arts
- theoretical approaches to the aesthetic collectively produced and/or received
- the "absolute film" in the digital age
- questions of film pedagogy.
Please submit a 200-300 word abstract by email attachment before December 1, 2007 to: John Davidson
