A call for abstracts for a session at the American Studies Association
conference in Washington DC, November 8-11, 2001.
The Cinema and the City: The emergence of the cinema in the
late-nineteenth century coincided with the emergence of a new kind of
metropolis, characterized, among other things, by new traffic
technologies (el, subway, automobile), new racial, ethnic, and sexual
regimes, and new urban planning. This panel will explore connections
between urban history and film history, urban theory and film theory,
and examine how the cinema is a product of urban modernity while at
the same time it also produces a new urban experience and culture,
and new urban subjectivities. Possible topics: the function of the
cinema in the city; urban geography and spatial analysis in film;
urban audiences; the cinematic narrativization of urban space; urban
genres (documentary, expose, comedy, musical, inner city film etc.);
the cinema and urban planning; urban performances; global cities;
film and urban tourism. Papers that mediate between and combine
methodologies developed in Film Studies and American Studies are
particularly welcome. 1-page abstracts by Dec. 1 (mail of e-mail):
Sabine Haenni
Humanities Collegiate Division
University of Chicago
5845 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago IL 60637
shaenni@uchicago.edu.
Panelists will have to be or become members of the American Studies
Association.
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