"Disciplining Film"
This proposed panel will address the question of film's relationship to
disciplinarity. What difference does it make if we teach or study film
within the context of English, Art History, Visual Studies, Film
Studies, Women's Studies, Area Studies and African-American studies
departments? How does this impact the nature of the scholarship we
produce? Are there specific disciplinary "norms" or standards of Cinema
and Media Studies, and how do these standards interact with the
disciplines with which CMS interacts? What are the challenges and
benefits of running interdisciplinary Film and Media Studies programs
that draw on various departments but have no independent faculty lines
of their own? What does film's disciplinary mobility reveal about the
nature of the medium, and how will the current calls for a return to
the disciplines impact the work we do and the structures within which
we do it? Have the transgressions of interdisciplinarity become, as Hal
Foster has recently claimed, nothing but routine indiscipline? If so,
how might we productively address this routinization, and if not, what
are the ideological stakes in claiming that this is the case?
Please submit Paper Standard Abstract Forms (see SCMS website at
http://www.cmstudies.org/ )
with bio to Karen Beckman at kbeckmanca@earthlink.net by August 15th.
Panelists must be members of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
Membership and conference information for the '05 conference
(University of London) at:
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