CALL FOR PAPERS
The Semiotics of Music Video
A Panel Discussion at INSCRIPTIONS '04: an Arts and Culture Conference and
Festival
at Eastern Mediterranean University
in Famagusta, on the island of Cyprus
June 3rd- 4th, 2004, organized by the Department of English Literature and
the Humanities
The seventh annual Literature and Humanities Conference will be held at
Eastern Mediterranean University under the heading Inscriptions '04 and will
take place at the university and environs between June 3rd - 4th, 2004. In
conjunction with a wide selection of music, performance and film events,
discussion-friendly papers are being solicited for our symposium. Although
we will be publishing selected presentations from Inscriptions '04, we
encourage participants to move away from the standard prewritten, "finished
paper" format, towards a more open-ended presentation, which will provoke
and contribute to a genuine exchange of research and ideas during the panel
sessions. Our aim is to create a forum and publishing venue for inspiring
work in progress, where the exchange of ideas with fellow academics
participating in the conference will contribute to the final form of
participants' work.
With this in mind, we invite papers and/or presentations that examine,
elucidate and/or challenge the semiotics of music video. Possible topics
might include but are not limited to:
- well beyond "Thriller" and "Ashes to Ashes": the current state
of epic narrative and schizophrenic displacement in
twenty-first century music video.
- MTV: "Total flow" or empty faucet? The continuing cultural
impact of MTV.
- monopoly and music: the effect of music video outlets, CMT,
BET, MuchMusic, VH1, DVD. How do changing formats `change`
listeners?
- digital video and the future of sound/image synergy.
- browsing music blindly: analyses of the forms of listenership
constructed by surfing sites such as Napster and Audio-Galaxy.
- representations of the female body in pop video:
watching/gazing/critiquing J-Lo, Madonna and Kylie.
- Whitney Houston, Alanis Morisette, Shania Twain: the Diva on
Video?
- the videos of Robbie Williams: premeditated "visionary" or
cultural zeitgeist?
- video sex: George Michael and gender representations in latex
and animation.
- growing and groaning in public: the rite de passage of Madonna,
Kylie and Britney Spears
- "Cannon-ball," "Sabotage," "Da Funk," "Electrobank," "Praise
You," Being John Malkovitch: the career of Spike Jonze.
- Hype Williams, Paul Hunter and the hip-hop video
- naked Asses\naked Aussies: striptease, nudity and seduction in
contemporary pop video.
- A Chorus line: how video experimentation is
compromised/facilitated by the boy band format.
- multimedia synergy: music video as film trailer. The
corporate/aesthetic conflict generated by U2's "Elevation"
and other film trailer presentations.
- simian video: recently Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Travis, REM and
Gorillaz have all featured apes, orangutans and
chimpanzees in their video work, why?
We also welcome analyses of individual videos. Suggestions
Coldplay - "Yellow"
The Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar"
Fatboy Slim - "Weapon of Choice"
Timo Mass - "Get Down"
Aphex Twin - "Come to Daddy"
Moby - "We are all made of Stars"
Robbie Williams - "Rock DJ"
Sinead O' Connor - "Nothing Compares to You"
Tim Deluxe - "It Just Won't Do"
Kylie - "Slow"
Please send 250 word abstracts by 31st January, 2004 to:
rodney.sharkey@emu.edu.tr or robert.dalonzo@emu.edu.tr
and please visit http://www.emu.edu.tr/elh/index_conference.html for more
information.
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