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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 2 Dec 2011 22:48
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Submission Call for Davis Feminist Film Festival 2012

From: Michelle Yates [myates <at> ucdavis.edu]

********** 2 Weeks Until Deadline! **********

The Consortium for Women and Research is pleased to announce that it is now
accepting submissions for the 2012 Davis Feminist Film Festival to be held
on April 12 and 13, 2012 at the Veteran‚s Memorial Center Theatre in Davis, CA.

The Davis Feminist Film Festival welcomes films from professionals,
students, and community members locally, nationally, and internationally.
People underrepresented in the media field are especially encouraged to
submit a film for consideration.

The Davis Feminist Film Festival is an internationally-recognized
short film festival. Films must be
shorter than 35 minutes in length.

Films submitted to the festival for consideration must meet at least two of
the following criteria:

  * Films created with an eye for gender and social justice issues
  * Films that link local and global issues
  * Films created by people underrepresented in the media field (women,
people of color, queer/transgender, disabled)
  * Films made by people from the Davis/Sacramento area

A completed application includes:

  * Entry Submission form
  * Signed Submission Agreement Form
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 2 Dec 2011 22:56
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CFP: Call for Papers/Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies

From: Anne Morey [amorey <at> TAMU.EDU]

Neo-Victorianism has become a major trend in contemporary literature and
culture. Novels, motion pictures, documentaries and TV series have all
contributed to the persistent re-imagination of the nineteenth century.
While neo-Victorianism in fiction and film has sparked off a lively academic
industry, its impact on children’s literature and contemporary discourses on
childhood has not yet been fully addressed.

The Victorians were obsessed with the Romantic ideal of the innocent child
of nature, an innocence that was thought to be perennially at risk; witness
the centrality of the child victim in Victorian melodrama and the
astonishing popularity of orphan narratives. Victorian constructions of
childhood were also intimately linked to empire. Pauper children were
frequently orientalised as ‘street Arabs’, while the indigenous inhabitants
of the colonies were often portrayed as children, imposing various forms of
maternalism and paternalism upon the coloniser. Both pauper children at the
metropolitan centre and indigenous children at the outskirts of empire were
frequently construed as orphans, even if their parents were still alive.
Orphan narratives framed trafficking in children from the outskirts of
empire to the centre and vice versa, as pauper children were sent abroad to
the settler colonies as cheap labour hands, while ‘orphans’ in the colonies
were removed from their parents in order to be raised at missionary homes or
by Anglo-parents who could not conceive themselves.

This special issue of Neo-Victorian Studies will explore how Victorian
constructions of childhood are re-mediated and renegotiated in contemporary
arts and discourse, from neo-Victorian children’s literature and/or fiction
featuring children, heritage film and television, the media, social policy
making and family politics, to present-day legal frameworks. In particular,
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 3 Dec 2011 19:05
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CFP: ICSAI 2012, Yantai, China: Submission Deadline 6 January [EI Compendex/ISTP/IEEE Xplore]

From: Prof Sun [ICSAI2012CFP <at> mail.ytu.edu.cn]

Dear Colleague,
The 2012 International Conference on Systems and Informatics (ICSAI 2012) will be held from 19-21 May 2012
in Yantai, China. Submission Deadline is 6 January 2012.
ICSAI 2012 aims to be a premier international forum for scientists and researchers to present the state of
the art of systems engineering and information science. Topics include (but are not limited to):
      Systems
·         Control and Automation Systems
·         Power and Energy Systems
·         Intelligent Systems
·         Computer Systems and Applications
       Informatics
·         Communications and Networking
·         Image, Video, and Signal Processing
·         Data Engineering and Data Mining
·         Software Engineering

 The registration fee of US$400 includes proceedings, lunches, dinners, banquet, coffee breaks, and all
technical sessions. ICSAI 2012 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society.
All papers in conference proceedings will be indexed by both EI Compendex and ISTP, as well as the IEEE
Xplore (IEEE Conference Record #19873; IEEE Catalog Number CFP1273R-CDR; ISBN: 978-1-4673-0197-8).
Substantially extended versions of best papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of a
SCI-indexed journal.
Yantai was listed as one of the world's most inhabitable places by the United Nations and was recognized as
the "most charming city of China" by China Central Television. Undulating hills rise above the area's
many rivers and are framed by beaches and neighboring islands. Famous tourist attractions include the
Tashan Mountain, Kongdong Island, and Penglai Pavilion Scenic Area. Seafood and fruits are plentiful in Yantai.
For more information, visit the conference web page:
   http://ICSAI2012.ytu.edu.cn
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 4 Dec 2011 22:30
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CfP Cinematographic Objects (II): Things and Operations

From: Susanne Wagner [susanne.wagner <at> UNI-WEIMAR.DE]

Call for Papers
Cinematographic Objects (II): Things and Operations

International Conference of the Junior Fellow Program “Theory and History of
Cinematographic Objects,” July 11-13, 2012
IKKM, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

In recent years, studies in the history of science, social sciences, and
ethnology have prompted cultural theorists to return to the realm of things.
However, the potential contributions of film and the study of film to our
understanding of what constitutes a thing or object, and how they operate
for and within film, remains an open question. One may ask, for instance:
“What do things do in or to film?” And conversely: “How do film and media
theory affect objects and existing concepts of objecthood?”

Films are assemblages of things: suitcases, revolvers, cars, shower
curtains, bones that turn into spaceships within a split second. Insofar as
these “things” make their peculiar appearance on film, they can be called
cinematographic objects. The complexity of cinematographic objects resides
in the fact that their very definition is always implicated in an
ever-evolving network of associations with: 1) things on film, 2) the
materiality of filmic images, and 3) the mechanical and operational
relationships between the apparatuses necessary for their production (i.e.
cameras, editing equipment, projectors, microphones, etc.)

“Cinematographic objects” are characterized by a specific relationship
between thing and operation. The screen is full of props, artifacts,
material objects either made explicitly for the cinematographic apparatus or
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 5 Dec 2011 19:31
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CFP: Wagner conference

From: COURTNEY, SUSAN [SCCOURTN <at> mailbox.sc.edu]

Call for papers
WagnerWorldWide2013: America
University of South Carolina, Columbia
January 31-February 2, 2013
 In recognition of Richard Wagner’s bicentennial in 2013, the University of South Carolina’s College
of Arts and Sciences and School of Music are hosting a conference for Wagner scholars from all
disciplines. The conference is part of a multi-year global initiative by the University of Bayreuth
(www.fimt.uni-bayreuth.de<http://www.fimt.uni-bayreuth.de/> ) under the heading
WagnerWorldWide 2013 which will examine Wagner and his significance through five core areas:

  *   Environment and Nature
  *   Gender and Sexuality
  *   Media and Film
  *   History and Nationalism
  *   Globalization and Markets

Submissions are encouraged that address one or more of these topics. All conference sessions will be
plenary, and divided between panels with three 20-minute talks, and roundtable discussions with up to 10
participants, each with a 5-minute position paper.
The conference proceedings will be broadcast via live-stream on the internet and later as podcasts. There
are plans for a live audience in Bayreuth and possibly elsewhere to be linked via video-conference. All
lectures will be given in English. Additional discussions, questions, and suggestions may be added
through Facebook (WagnerWorldWide 2013<https://www.facebook.com/pages/WagnerWorldWide-2013/185151968180314>).
Abstracts of max 250 words for talks and/or position papers must be uploaded via the conference website
(www.cas.sc.edu/www2013/call_for_papers<http://www.cas.sc.edu/www2013/call_for_papers>
<http://www.cas.sc.edu/www2013/call_for_papers> ) no later than February 15, 2012. Abstracts
should include contact information (mail, email and telephone) and institutional affiliation. Group
submissions are also welcome. The group organizer should upload a single document. Advanced graduate
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 7 Dec 2011 18:58
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CFP: Call for Papers on History of Video Games

From: matthew wilhelm kapell [kapellm <at> yahoo.com]

We are seeking chapters for a new interdisciplinary collection addressing the representation and
depiction of history in video games.
In a 2005 article discussing the simulation of history through video games, William Uricchio observes
that the opportunities for mediation through play pose new and difficult questions about narrative
authority and representation. “What happens”, he asks, “if we push the notion of mediation beyond
language, to the domain of game, enactment, or simulation? Does this allow us to slip out of the
well-critiqued trap of representation? And if so, where does it land us?” As of 2011, his questions
remain unanswered.

Amid a world of SIMs, first-person warfare games, strategy, MMO and MMORPs in which players can influence
the outcome of battles, campaigns, and even entire civilisations, such questions about the means by
which history is delivered to new generations gain increasing importance. When history can be
simulated, recreated, subverted and rewritten on a variety of levels, new questions arise about the
relationship between video games and the history they purport to represent, questions which
traditional historical approaches cannot properly address.

The proposed edited collection thus seeks to examine representations of history through video and
computer games from a multidisciplinary perspective. Our aim is to avoid criticisms of inaccuracy and
betrayal or descriptions of games which purportedly ‘get things wrong’, but to look instead at the
ways in which contemporary players actually can and do engage with the past, and what effect this has on the
period depicted.

Suggested topics may include (but are not limited to):
• The representation of historical battles, wars and campaigns (e.g. Medal of Honor, Call of Duty,
Command & Conquer, Battlefield)
• The role of play in the recreation, retelling and representation of key events in history (e.g. Anno
1404, Anno 1701, Sid Meier’s Colonization)
• The representation of historical personages (Caesar, Napoleon, Victoria, Sun Tzu)
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 7 Dec 2011 20:13
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Re: Mirrors in movies?

From: Jackson, Tony [tejackso <at> uncc.edu]

Hey everybody, I have a question for the list's collective knowledge of films. What films carry examples of
conspicuous shots of mirrors? By conspicuous I just mean more than a passing glance. So for instant the
infinite mirrors at the end of Citizen Kane, the funhouse mirrors at the end of Lady from Shanghai or the
doubled couples in Vertigo, or any number of fancy shots in The Black Swan. Also useful would be movies in
which mirrors play some key causative or explanatory role, as with the cracked medicine cabinet mirror in Memento.

Thanks for whatever suggestions you can offer.

tony jackson

Tony E. Jackson | Professor
UNC Charlotte | Department of English
9201 University Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223
Phone: 704-687-4216 | FAX: 704-687-3961
tejackso <at> uncc.edu<mailto:tejackso <at> uncc.edu> | http://www.english.uncc.edu/jackson.htm
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 7 Dec 2011 20:38
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Multiple responses: Mirrors in movies?

From: Kassel, Michael [mkassel <at> umflint.edu] 
Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" - towards the end of the movie.  

Michael B. Kassel, Ph D
Academic Enrichment Center Coordinator
Adjunct Lecturer in History and American Culture
The University of Michigan-Flint
264 University Center
Flint, Michigan 48502
(810) 762-3456
mkassel <at> umflint.edu

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Laura Beadling [beadlingl <at> uwplatt.edu] 
There will no doubt be lots of suggestions!  Here are my contributions:
The end of All about Eve when the president of Eve's fan club looks at herself in the tripartite mirror while
holding Eve's award

In A Soldier's Story when Sgt Waters tells Wilkie about the soldier they murdered in cold blood during WWI -
the whole scene almost is a mirror shot

In In Cold Blood when Perry loses himself in daydreams in the mirror in the bus station restroom

In Eve's Bayou when Eve's aunt tells her the story of her marriages - the audience can see the past play out in
the mirror

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Maiershofer, Erik C [ecmaiershofer <at> hiu.edu] 
It seems to me that "mirrors" are used throughout the Lord of the Rings
trilogy, sometimes glass mirrors and at other times reflections in
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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 7 Dec 2011 22:45
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TOC: Journal of American-East Asian Relations -- Film Across the Pacific: Projections, Screens, and Mirrors

From: Charles Hayford [Chayford <at> aol.com]

*VOLUME 17. 4 (2010) "FILM ACROSS THE PACIFIC: PROJECTIONS, SCREENS, AND
MIRRORS -- PART ONE*

  * "Editor's Introduction to Part One," Charles W. Hayford
  * Zhiwei Xiao "Chinese Screen Depiction of America, 1910-2010"
  * Jon Cowans "A Deepening Disbelief: The American Movie Hero in
    Vietnam, 1958-1968"
  * Paul G. Pickowicz, "Revisiting Cold War Propaganda: Close Readings
    of Chinese and American Film Representations of the Korean War"
  * Yunxiang Gao "Soo Yong (1903-1984): Hollywood Celebrity and Cultural
    Interpreter"

*VOLUME 18. 1 (2011) "FILM ACROSS THE PACIFIC: PROJECTIONS, SCREENS, AND
MIRRORS -- PART TWO*

  * Charles W. Hayford, "Editor's Introduction to Part Two, 'Film Across
    the Pacific: Crossing the Ocean of Cultures and Rivers of Time: The
    Uses of Film in American-East Asian Relations"
  * Xiaofei Wang, "Movies Without Mercy: Race, War, and Images of
    Japanese People in American Films, 1942-1945"
  * Michael C. Wall, "Censorship and Sovereignty: Shanghai and the
    Struggle to Regulate Film Content in the International Settlement"
  * Ramona Curry, "Benjamin Brodsky (1877-1960): The Transpacific
    American Film Entrepreneur Part One: Making 'A Trip Thru China'"
  * Peter J. Vernezze, "We'll Always Have Chengdu: East Meets West on
    the Silver Screen,"

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Bell-Metereau, Rebecca L | 8 Dec 2011 00:05
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Multiple responses: Mirrors in movies?

From: thomas <at> nwfilm.org [thomas <at> nwfilm.org] 

There is a key scene in Nicholas Ray's "Bigger Than Life" where an  
unhinged James Mason sees  himself reflected in a broken mirror  
offering him a glimpse of what one reviewer referred to as his  
"shattered masculine image."
Thomas
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Mike Fekula [fmtico7 <at> hotmail.com] 

I have a couple of suggestions: 

-Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon" with the famous fight scene at the end of the movie, taking place in the room
with mirrors on all of its walls. 
-Peter Kubelka's "Mosaic in Confidence", an experimental film with a brief shot of a railroad signalman
holding up a mirror. 
-Maya Deren's "Meshes in the Afternoon" and of course, the documentary "In The Mirror of Maya Deren". 

Mike Fekula
College Park, MD
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Felicia Chan [Felicia.Chan <at> manchester.ac.uk] 
All That Heaven Allows - in the mirror and then in the TV screen as mirror...
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oldfilmlover <at> gmail.com [oldfilmlover <at> gmail.com] on behalf of Dan Hassoun [hass0265 <at> umn.edu] 
-"How to Marry a Millionaire" has a pretty glorious mirror sequence with
Marilyn Monroe, as I remember.
-Some of the great '50s family melodramas like "Written on the Wind" and
"Bigger Than Life" also have pretty spectacular and conspicuous scenes of
mirrors shattering.
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