[Discussion] UPDATE: Crossing Film, TV, New Media (grad) (2/12/05; 4/8/05-4/9/05)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Submissions deadline extended to February 12,  2005.

(dis)junctions: theory reloaded (april 8-9, 2005)

Media Crossings: Intersections of Film, Television, and Digital Culture

This call for papers is for a proposed panel to be held at
(dis)junctions: theory reloaded at the University of California
Riverside=92s 12th Annual Humanities Graduate Conference on April 8-9, 20=
05.

Drawing from the work of theorists like Lev Manovich [Soft(ware) Cinema]
and Marsha Kinder [Playing with Power In Movies, Television, and Video
Games], the purpose of this panel is to explore critical and theoretical
possibilities at the intersections of cinema, television, and
software/digital culture. Film, television, and digital media are
already bleeding into each other in significant ways. For example,
blockbuster movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer is now creating big-budget
broadcast television, like CSI, with high-profile movie stars, like Gary
Sinise; in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, apart from the actors,
their clothes, and the props they hold, the entirety of the "realistic"
narrative world in which they interact was produced by computer; the
Internet increasingly becomes a place where people can access television
programs and movies, where digital film festivals showcase amateur short
films, where web sites ask for viewer votes that influence television
programming. Yet despite the compelling interconnections across these
media, media-specific approaches, which privilege the separation of
visual studies into self-contained spheres, continue to dominate the
academic scene. In a step towards changing this trend, this panel is
seeking papers that take up the assorted crossings between these media
forms, including but not limited to:

Digital Forms of Cinema
On-line Film and Television
Film and Television Pirating on the Web
Internet Marketing of Film and Television
Cinema-Inspired Television: Sopranos, Six Feet Under, CSI
Television-Inspired Cinema: Altman films
Filmic Influences on Video Games: Grand Theft Auto
Videogame Films: Spiderman

This panel is extending the work of the global_interface workshop, an
ongoing colloquium on digital arts and new media at UCR made possible by
a Mellon grant. Throughout the year, global_interface promotes
discussion of such international and interdisciplinary issues as video
games, intelligent robotics, Afrofuturism, post-humanism, digital music,
and online sexuality.

For more information about the global_interface workshop at UCR, please
visit our web site at http://globalinterface.blogspot.com

One page abstracts should be e-mailed to global_interface@hotmail.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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