Contributions are invited to a two-day conference on Literature and
Visual Culture to be held at St. John's College, the University of Oxford,
on September 18-19, 2000.
The purpose of this conference is to subject to close analysis the
evolving relationship between the newer visual media, especially cinema,
and older literary forms over the last century. Specifically,
contributors are asked to consider what formal, stylistic and
representational effects visual culture has had upon literary culture,
rather than focussing on eg. cinematic adaptations of literary works.
Possible topics for discussion might include: Modernism and early
film; projection and Imagism; the Camera Eye; montage, constructivism and
dada; Hollywood and the writer during the Depression; sound film and the
novel.
As part of the conference proceedings there will be a special event,
entitled 'A Night at the Volta': an evening devoted to James Joyce and his
opening of the first Irish cinematograph. This will feature screenings of
some of the early silent films shown in Joyce's theatre, and papers by
specialists on the interactions between literary tradition and visual
technologies in Joyce's texts.
The conference will include contributions from major academics on
both sides of the atlantic, and is supported by the British Film
Institute.
Keynote speakers are Annette Michelson, Colin MacCabe and Stephen Heath.
Please send abstracts of one typed page (approx. 250 words) and a brief
biography to:
Dr. Julian Murphet,
St. John's College,
University of Oxford,
Oxford OX1 3JP
United Kingdom.
Informal enquiries may be made by e-mail to:
katy.mullin@btinternet.com
or
lydia.rainford@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Deadline for submission of abstracts: April 30th 2000.
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