September 9-10, 2016 ? University of Cincinnati
Confirmed Keynote Speaker: Bill Marshall
(University of Stirling)
Confirmed Filmmaker: Eva Pervolovici (Marussia, 2013, France/Russia)
Confirmed Roundtable Participants: Denis Provencher (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Joseph Mai (Clemson University), Sylvie Durmelat (Georgetown University), Thérèse Migraine-George (University of Cincinnati), Thibaut Schilt (College of the Holy Cross)
This interdisciplinary conference will examine cinematic and televisual cultural productions that fall under a broad ‘French-language’ umbrella in order to map out significant trends as well as new directions in the study of global French-language cinema and television and its points of contact with other languages and industries. It also aims to explore the opportunities and limitations of adopting labels such as cinéma-monde, transnational, Francophone, and World Cinema, as critical frameworks.
The conference will conclude with a roundtable that will bring together ideas raised during the conference.
We invite proposals in French or English for single papers and panels. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
-New Francophone spaces in world
cinema and television
– Transnational television and
cinema in French (or partly in French)
-Screen media and/or digital
media in the French-speaking world
-The notion of cinéma-monde or
cinéma(s)-monde(s)
-Parameters, boundaries, and
definitions of French-language and/or French cinema
-“Hubs” and emerging or
overlooked sites of French-language cinema (Montreal, Belgium, Chad)
– Film and television industries
(production and/or reception of French-language cinema and television,
funding sources, industry practices, etc.)
– Circuits and institutions of
marketing and dissemination of French-language cinema (international and
regional film festivals, cinema houses, etc.)
– International auteurs working
in Paris or international auteurs not based in Paris but making films in
French/in France (Aki Kaurismäki, Ursula Meier, Merzak Allouache, Amos
Gitai, etc.)
– Directors whose work has
intersected various Francophone spaces
– Linguistic issues and
parameters of “French-language cinema”, non-French productions containing
French dialogue, French productions with little or no French in them,
multilingual cinema
– Interaction with and
competition from English and points of contact with other languages in the
Middle East, Africa, the Maghreb, and elsewhere
– Antecedents to contemporary
World cinema in French
– Teaching French-language cinema
to students who do not speak French
Conference participants will be invited to submit their papers for a special issue on the conference theme that will be published in Contemporary French Civilization.
The deadline for abstracts (300 words) is March 1, 2016. Please send abstracts
and a short bio as a single attachment to WorldCinemaConference@gmail.com.
Please contact Michael Gott (michael.gott@uc.edu) or Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp (lkealhofer@uri.edu) with any questions.
Scientific Committee:
Sylvie Durmelat
(Georgetown University)
Michael Gott (University
of Cincinnati)
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
(University of Rhode Island)
Joseph Mai (Clemson
University)
Thérèse Migraine-George
(University of Cincinnati)
Mireille Rosello
(University of Amsterdam)
Thibaut Schilt (College
of the Holy Cross)
Sponsored by The
University of Cincinnati Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, Center for Film
and Media Studies, and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, The
Un nt of Romance Languages and Literatures
Director of Programming / Center for Film and Media Studies
University of Cincinnati
E-mail: michael.gott@uc.edu
Office: 709B Old Chemistry
Phone: (513) 556-1846