CFP: (dis)junctions: Horrific Harmonies: Placing Oneself Within the Audiovisual Nightmare (grad) (1/7/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)
Horrific Harmonies: Placing Oneself Within the Audiovisual Nightmare

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions: theory reloaded at the University of California Riverside’s 12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 2005.

Historically, film criticism has been dominated by the visual, subjugating the auditory perspective. Only recently has critical work begun to explore the ways in which music influences how films are perceived. Assuming that the influence of music in film is often overlooked in classical film studies, one could argue that film music has been made to serve the image instead of working in collaboration with the image to create a cohesive effect. However, in horror films music is so apparent and overt in its attempt to manipulate emotion that it subverts classical perspectives of music and its relation to film. How do horror films utilize music to create/manipulate the intended atmosphere? Why is the horror genre, unlike other film genres, comfortable with such overt expression of its audio qualities? How are modern films taking into account auditory perspectives in order to create a deeper sensory experience, and can this in some way be linked to the examples that horror films !
 have
 provided?
One page abstracts should be e-mailed to nicholasanthonyvaldez_at_yahoo.com by January
7, 2005 (text in the body of the message; please no attachments). The
submissions should be no longer than 250 words.

Proposals sent via snail mail should be sent to:
(dis)junctions
UCR's Twelfth Annual Humanities Graduate Conference
Department of English
UC Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521-0323

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://english.ucr.edu/gsea/disjunctions/

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