CFP: (dis)junctions: Conceptualizing Film & Photography (grad) (2/14/03; 4/11/03-4/12/03)

Conceptualizing Film and Photography in the Mechanical Age

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at “(Dis)Junctions:
Morphing the Written Word” at the University of California Riverside’s 10th
Annual Humanities Conference on April 11-12, 2003.

Contributors are invited to submit papers on any aspect of twentieth century
film or photography including (but not limited to) the following topics:

-Modernism and Postmodern theory and its intersections with twentieth
century film and/or photography. Such interrogations can include discussions
surrounding Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay, “The Work of Art in the
Mechanical Age of Reproduction.”
-Exploration of the presence of film and/or photography in such literary
works by such authors as Italo Calvino, Julio Cortazar, Michel Tournier, or
other works that feature photography and film within the text.
-Critical investigations of adaptations of the book to film.

One page abstracts of 250 words should be emailed to
disjunctionspanels_at_hotmail.com by February 14, 2003. Text should be
included in the body of the email; please no attachments. For more
information, please refer to our general CFP: Humanities: morphing the
written word or log on to our website listed below. If sending by mail, use
the following address:

Disjunctions, UCR’s 10th Annual Conference
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92527-0323

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