The Wall
The 5th Tel Aviv International Colloquium on Cinema Studies June 6-8,2004
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Call for Papers
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The postmodernist academic discourse about fusion[1], hybridity, 'third s=
pace', pastiche, and carnival tends to be detached from the material and =
cultural 'walls,' that still exist today between nations, classes, gender=
s and artistic models. These 'walls' actually never have been fused, coll=
apsed, merged or deconstructed. In the age of globalization of mass commu=
nications and its imperatives of commodification, commercialism, conformi=
ty and mainstreaming the 'other', the 'walls' are increasingly more sophi=
sticated, and occasionally more brutal.
Notably, these walls are imposed not only by the dominant and privil=
eged, but can also be constituted, maintained, defended and reproduced by=
subaltern ethnicities, sexualities and marginal groups themselves, in th=
eir resistance to assimilation and (post)colonialism, and in their strugg=
le for self-definition and political and cultural independence.
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The conference will address several critical issues:=20
- The limits of deconstruction analysis and postmodern theory in facing t=
he walls.=20
- The fallacy that the same globalization lingo generated by the corporat=
e world can also serve to decipher its effects.=20
- The meanings and effects of walls on film making/producing/distributing.
- The =91walls=92 that are constructed by mainstream television and cinem=
a and its newspeak.=20
- The existence of walls as metaphorical barriers between cinematic langu=
age and its referent, and between cinematic genres, structures, times and=
spaces.=20
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A proposal submitted to the Conference may refer to one or more of the =
following topics:
- New perspectives on discovery/recovery of subaltern ethnicities in popu=
lar films & TV programs.
- "Globalization" of genres, subgenres and other cinematic forms.
- Juxtaposed, imposed and (pre)supposed geographies, landscapes, and laby=
rinths.
- Disciplined fantasies and scripted dreams.
- Traditional 'walls' vs. modern 'walls' in Third World Cinema.=20
- The existing 'wall' in quasi-anarchistic films & sitcoms, freak shows, =
circuses, carnivals, and impresarios
- (Meta)physical 'walls' in recent horror films.=20
- (De)eroticization of sexed and gendered 'walls'.
- Walls, barricades and territories in new 'united' Europe.
- Walls, prohibitions and manipulations in TV programs.=20
- The walls of national cinemas.
- Walls and the power of domination, occupation, and dislocation.
- =91Roadblock=92 movies and the walls within.
- Inter-cultural challenges and clashes in bi-lingual films.
- Cinematic architectures and urban (con)structures.
- Plot and characters, their construction and deconstruction.
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* An abstract of no more than 250 words should be sent to Raz Yosef:=20
* Deadline for all submission: January 15, 2003.
* Please note any Audio-Visual requirements. =20
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[1] Which is the theme of the fifth Tel Aviv Cinema Student Festival =96 =
the host of the Colloquiem
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