University of Central Lancashire
1-2 July 2015
We invite papers that address relevance of Marxism to aspects of contemporary film and other forms of moving image. We encourage paper abstracts from film historians, film practitioners and all sorts of amateurs interested in the intersection between Marx’s thought (and other Marxists, such as Benjamin, Bloch, Lefebvre, Deleuze, Rancière, Badiou, Hardt and Negri, and Harvey) and film. We understand film broadly, including all forms of visual culture that project movement, including television, documentary, music video, games and animation.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Dr. William Brown, Roehampton University
Dr. Eva Näripea, Estonian Academy of Arts
The first Marx at the Movies (2012) conference led to the producing of two books which will be presented during the conference.
These are:
Marx and the Moving Image: Revisiting History, Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/marx-at-the-movies-ewa-mazierska/?K=9781137378606
and
Marx and Film Activism: Screening Alternative Worlds (forthcoming from Berghahn, 2015)
http://www.berghahnbooks.com/title.php?rowtag=MazierskaMarx
Conference Organisers
Prof. Ewa Mazierska, University of Central Lancashire
Dr. Lars Kristensen, University of Skövde
Deadline for abstracts (max 200 words): 1 March 2015.
Please send abstracts to Ewa Mazierska or Lars Kristensen
EHMazierska@uclan.ac.uk
lars.kristensen@his.se
Notice
The conference is not expected to produce a monetary surplus value, only an intellectual one.