Society for Cinema & Media Studies Conference, March 17-21, 2010
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites, Los Angeles, CA
Deadline for submissions to this panel: August 9, 2009 11:59 PM CST
Submissions are still welcome for a panel that considers the relationship between film reviewing and media culture. Those interested in submitting have two weeks until the deadline. Papers addressing film criticism in ways that relate to the overall conference theme (SCMS at 50: Archiving the Future/Mobilizing the Past) are particularly encouraged.
Cinema scholars such as Robert Kapsis, Barbara Klinger, and Charles Maland have examined the role of reviews in discursively constructing popular genres and directorial reputations during the Classical Hollywood era. As professional film critics writing for corporate-owned print publications continue losing their jobs due to buyouts, layoffs, and reorganizations, the past three years has witnessed a flourishing of criticism online. Further, the so-called “amateur” critic has risen to prominence, evidenced by review aggregators such as Rotten Tomatoes, movie websites such as IMDB, and blogs dedicated to film analysis and evaluation. This panel aims to investigate not only the status of the film critic in the contemporary mediascape, but also the impact of print and Internet film reviewing in the context of global cinema culture.
Potential topics may include, but are not limited to the following:
- Film reviews as historical evidence
- The future of film criticism
- Canonicity, connoisseurship, and taste politics
- Reviewing, academia, and cinephilia
- Fans, audiences, and popular opinion
- Moviegoing and the DVD market
- Film criticism and film advertising
- The cultural presence of the public intellectual
- Print media vs. new media and the “professional” vs. the “amateur”
- Coverage of international/independent films, art house retrospectives, and film festivals
- Genre definitions (e.g. David Edelstein’s coinage of “torture porn”)
- The cult of the director
- The influence of the late Manny Farber
Send 300 word abstract (including a 5 item bibliography), with full academic CV, as separate e-mail attachments to: Will Scheibel (willscheibel@gmail.com). Submitters will be notified as to the status of their proposal by August 15. Please visit the SCMS website for more details about the 2010 conference: http://www.cmstudies.org/
Will Scheibel
Indiana University
Department of Communication & Culture
800 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Hollywood History / Jewish History: The Past and Future of a Popular Jewish Identity (SCMS 2010)
I've decided to try for a panel at SCMS 2010.
See Below:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hollywood History / Jewish History: The Past and Future of a Popular Jewish Identity (SCMS 2010)
A Jewish presence in Hollywood history is undeniably defined through a substantial yet complex influence upon American popular culture. From the founding of the Hollywood studio system by Jewish moguls to the early creative presence of such stage stars as Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor to the musical influence of songwriters Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Jerome Kern - the birth of the modern entertainment industry in the first half of the century was defined by the ingenuity and creativity of immigrant Jews and their offspring. Yet, almost paradoxically, during this influential period, xenophobia and anti-Semitism was openly expressed by numerous important people, institutions, and legislative acts. With this conflict in mind, this panel explores the presence of a Jewish influence in the Hollywood of yesterday and today. It will examine this ethnic history through the complicated cultural narratives of segregation, resistance, and assimilation that define Jewish identity in gentile American society.
In keeping with the conference’s theme of “Archiving/Screening/Mobilizing the Pasts and Futures of SCMS,” this panel hopes to include work that is both archival (documenting and analyzing Jewish-American history in Hollywood) and theoretical (welcoming work employing ethnic, postmodern, feminist, queer, ideological, and reception theory). Topics can include studies of classic or modern Jewish filmmakers or stars, Jewish influence upon studio production, Jewish/gentile-audience studies, de-Semitization/re-Semitization in popular texts, and other variations upon the panel topic.
Please send an abstract of maximum 500 words (including a 5 item bibliography), with a short bio as a Word attachment via email to sbalcerzak@niu.edu no later than August 12. Expect a response by August 16. Please consult the SCMS guidelines before you submit.
Scott Balcerzak
Assistant Professor of Film and Literature
Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL, 60115
See Below:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hollywood History / Jewish History: The Past and Future of a Popular Jewish Identity (SCMS 2010)
A Jewish presence in Hollywood history is undeniably defined through a substantial yet complex influence upon American popular culture. From the founding of the Hollywood studio system by Jewish moguls to the early creative presence of such stage stars as Al Jolson and Eddie Cantor to the musical influence of songwriters Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Jerome Kern - the birth of the modern entertainment industry in the first half of the century was defined by the ingenuity and creativity of immigrant Jews and their offspring. Yet, almost paradoxically, during this influential period, xenophobia and anti-Semitism was openly expressed by numerous important people, institutions, and legislative acts. With this conflict in mind, this panel explores the presence of a Jewish influence in the Hollywood of yesterday and today. It will examine this ethnic history through the complicated cultural narratives of segregation, resistance, and assimilation that define Jewish identity in gentile American society.
In keeping with the conference’s theme of “Archiving/Screening/Mobilizing the Pasts and Futures of SCMS,” this panel hopes to include work that is both archival (documenting and analyzing Jewish-American history in Hollywood) and theoretical (welcoming work employing ethnic, postmodern, feminist, queer, ideological, and reception theory). Topics can include studies of classic or modern Jewish filmmakers or stars, Jewish influence upon studio production, Jewish/gentile-audience studies, de-Semitization/re-Semitization in popular texts, and other variations upon the panel topic.
Please send an abstract of maximum 500 words (including a 5 item bibliography), with a short bio as a Word attachment via email to sbalcerzak@niu.edu no later than August 12. Expect a response by August 16. Please consult the SCMS guidelines before you submit.
Scott Balcerzak
Assistant Professor of Film and Literature
Department of English
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL, 60115
Thursday, July 02, 2009
SCMS LA Update
Looks like the Tokyo crowd has been brought into the LA conference...if they so choose of course!
From the SCMS Website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1136&Itemid=1
Dear SCMS members:
We are writing to you with important news about our 2010 Los Angeles conference and our plans to incorporate as much of the Tokyo conference program as possible into it.
Please be assured that there will be no shortage of space for new panels and workshops in Los Angeles. We have added a full day to the 2010 conference schedule as well as additional rooms and slots for each day of the five-day event, which will now take place on March 17-21 (Wednesday through Sunday). We typically schedule 220 panels and workshops at our annual conferences. In Los Angeles, we are anticipating having nearly twice that amount. The 2010 Los Angeles conference will not be compressed.
In order to facilitate conference planning, please carefully read the following information:
1. All papers, panels, and workshops listed in the official 2009 Tokyo conference program [http://www.cmstudies.org/documents/SCMS%202009%20INT-web%203.pdf] are automatically accepted for the 2010 Los Angeles conference, pending notification to the SCMS office by 1 August 2009.
2. We request the cooperation of panel and workshop Chairs--including Chairs assigned to panels assembled from the 2009 Open Call proposals--in determining whether their panel or workshop will be included in the 2010 Los Angeles conference and which participants will be presenting papers. Chairs must be in touch immediately with each participant of their panel or workshop to determine whether they will attend the 2010 Los Angeles conference.
3. Panel and workshop Chairs must communicate via email with the SCMS Office by 15 July to confirm whether or not their panels or workshops will be part of the 2010 Los Angeles conference. Please send this email to office@cmstudies.org. If the SCMS Office has not heard from a panel or workshop Chair by 15 July, the SCMS Office will directly contact participants on that panel or workshop to determine their interest in participating in the 2010 Los Angeles conference. The deadline for all Chairs and individuals to inform the SCMS Office of the status of their panel, paper or workshop is 1 August.
4. The SCMS Office will work with the 2010 Program Committee to facilitate the scheduling of the 2009 Tokyo panels and workshops within the 2010 Los Angeles conference. In order to accommodate as many participants as possible in the 2010 conference, the Program Committee may add participants to those 2009 Tokyo panels and workshops that have open slots, where appropriate, including originally pre-constituted panels and workshops.
5. For those individuals who had papers accepted for the Tokyo conference but did not register for it, and who are therefore not listed on the official Tokyo conference program, you will need to apply to the 2010 Los Angeles conference via the normal submission process. You may submit the same paper you submitted for the 2009 conference. There is no guarantee, however, that your previously accepted paper will be accepted for the 2010 conference.
6. Normal deadlines (September 1) and procedures will apply for new participants in the 2010 conference. The online proposal submission form is available at http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=476&Itemid=87]
7. Individuals from the Tokyo conference who agree to participate in the Los Angeles conference are subject to the posted restrictions on SCMS conference participation, as are new applicants for 2010. Individuals can present only one paper and can serve in only two different capacities (e.g., present a paper and serve as a panel chair; present a paper and participate in a workshop; present a paper and serve as a respondent; serve as a panel chair and participate in a workshop, etc.). These policies are in place to assure the widest participation of all SCMS members in our annual conferences and can be accessed on the SCMS website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=100
Thank you very much for your immediate attention to this matter. We appreciate your assistance and look forward to the celebration of our 50th year as a Society in Los Angeles in 2010.
Sincerely,
The SCMS Board of Directors
Patrice Petro, President
Stephen Prince, Past President
Chris Holmlund, President-Elect
Mary Celeste Kearney, Secretary
Paula Massood, Treasurer
Scott Curtis, Member of the Board
Hollis Griffin, Member of the Board
Michele Hilmes, Member of the Board
Victoria Johnson, Member of the Board
Diane Negra, Member of the Board
Jacqueline Stewart, Member of the Board
Michael Zryd, Member of the Board
From the SCMS Website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1136&Itemid=1
Dear SCMS members:
We are writing to you with important news about our 2010 Los Angeles conference and our plans to incorporate as much of the Tokyo conference program as possible into it.
Please be assured that there will be no shortage of space for new panels and workshops in Los Angeles. We have added a full day to the 2010 conference schedule as well as additional rooms and slots for each day of the five-day event, which will now take place on March 17-21 (Wednesday through Sunday). We typically schedule 220 panels and workshops at our annual conferences. In Los Angeles, we are anticipating having nearly twice that amount. The 2010 Los Angeles conference will not be compressed.
In order to facilitate conference planning, please carefully read the following information:
1. All papers, panels, and workshops listed in the official 2009 Tokyo conference program [http://www.cmstudies.org/documents/SCMS%202009%20INT-web%203.pdf] are automatically accepted for the 2010 Los Angeles conference, pending notification to the SCMS office by 1 August 2009.
2. We request the cooperation of panel and workshop Chairs--including Chairs assigned to panels assembled from the 2009 Open Call proposals--in determining whether their panel or workshop will be included in the 2010 Los Angeles conference and which participants will be presenting papers. Chairs must be in touch immediately with each participant of their panel or workshop to determine whether they will attend the 2010 Los Angeles conference.
3. Panel and workshop Chairs must communicate via email with the SCMS Office by 15 July to confirm whether or not their panels or workshops will be part of the 2010 Los Angeles conference. Please send this email to office@cmstudies.org. If the SCMS Office has not heard from a panel or workshop Chair by 15 July, the SCMS Office will directly contact participants on that panel or workshop to determine their interest in participating in the 2010 Los Angeles conference. The deadline for all Chairs and individuals to inform the SCMS Office of the status of their panel, paper or workshop is 1 August.
4. The SCMS Office will work with the 2010 Program Committee to facilitate the scheduling of the 2009 Tokyo panels and workshops within the 2010 Los Angeles conference. In order to accommodate as many participants as possible in the 2010 conference, the Program Committee may add participants to those 2009 Tokyo panels and workshops that have open slots, where appropriate, including originally pre-constituted panels and workshops.
5. For those individuals who had papers accepted for the Tokyo conference but did not register for it, and who are therefore not listed on the official Tokyo conference program, you will need to apply to the 2010 Los Angeles conference via the normal submission process. You may submit the same paper you submitted for the 2009 conference. There is no guarantee, however, that your previously accepted paper will be accepted for the 2010 conference.
6. Normal deadlines (September 1) and procedures will apply for new participants in the 2010 conference. The online proposal submission form is available at http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=476&Itemid=87]
7. Individuals from the Tokyo conference who agree to participate in the Los Angeles conference are subject to the posted restrictions on SCMS conference participation, as are new applicants for 2010. Individuals can present only one paper and can serve in only two different capacities (e.g., present a paper and serve as a panel chair; present a paper and participate in a workshop; present a paper and serve as a respondent; serve as a panel chair and participate in a workshop, etc.). These policies are in place to assure the widest participation of all SCMS members in our annual conferences and can be accessed on the SCMS website: http://www.cmstudies.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=47&Itemid=100
Thank you very much for your immediate attention to this matter. We appreciate your assistance and look forward to the celebration of our 50th year as a Society in Los Angeles in 2010.
Sincerely,
The SCMS Board of Directors
Patrice Petro, President
Stephen Prince, Past President
Chris Holmlund, President-Elect
Mary Celeste Kearney, Secretary
Paula Massood, Treasurer
Scott Curtis, Member of the Board
Hollis Griffin, Member of the Board
Michele Hilmes, Member of the Board
Victoria Johnson, Member of the Board
Diane Negra, Member of the Board
Jacqueline Stewart, Member of the Board
Michael Zryd, Member of the Board
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
