DOGME 95: Anti-Hollywood or Anti-Film?
Proposals are now being accepted for this panel at the Northeast Modern
Language Association (NEMLA) convention, which will be held in Boston,
March 6-9, 2003 (nb: this is a month earlier than usual).
In March 1995, a group of directors, led by Lars von Trier and Thomas
Vinterberg, formed Dogme 95 with the intent of providing an alternative to
commercial film, with its overabundance of special effects and manipulative
musical scores. Their manifesto includes a set of rules for film
directors, called The Vow of Chastity. These rules mostly cover issues of
filming, such as: shooting must be done on location, without created or
artificially introduced props and sets; sound may not be produced apart
from the images; cameras must be hand-held; no special lighting may be
used; and no optical work or filters may be used. In addition, genre films
are not acceptable, the director may not be credited, and specifying a
temporal or geographic setting is expressly forbidden.
Proposals addressing an overview of the Dogme movement, its influences and
its effects are welcome. In addition, the 25 Dogme films, the directors
and those directors' other films all provide a wealth of opportunities for
papers focusing on one particular film or for comparative studies, from a
variety of perspectives.
Please send one page proposals to Elizabeth Lindsay (email:
elindsay@umassd.edu or fax: 508.999.9240) by September 15, 2001.
===============================================
From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List
CFP@english.upenn.edu
Full Information at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/
or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu
===============================================
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Jul 31 2002 - 23:59:04 EDT