[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Another Slapstick Symposium (Belgium) (4/10/06; 5/13/06-5/14/06)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

Update - extended deadline


(Another) Slapstick Symposium

A film conference on American slapstick comedy in the silent era,
13th-14thmMay, 2006 organized by BLASA
(Belgium Luxembourg American Studies Association),
the University of Antwerp (American Studies Group) and
VDFC (Flemish Council for Film Culture)

To be held at the Cinematheque Royale, Brussels, Belgium


(Another) Slapstick Symposium sets out to revisit and rethink some of
the themes and ideas of the original Slapstick Symposium organized by
Eileen Bowser at the Museum of Modern Art in 1985. The conference will
focus on four broad contexts:

1)	slapstick comedy and early film style
2)	studios and audiences
3)	comedy stars/acting
4)	mechanics of the gag and the culture of modernity

Confirmed topics include:
"The Art of Imitation: The Originality of Charlie Chaplin and other
Moving-Image Myths", "Back to the 'slap': the slapstick hyperbolic
gesture and the rhetoric of violence", "Sennett Bathing Beauties", "D.W.
Griffith sets the Style for Slapstick", "California Slapstick Revisited".

Confirmed keynote speakers are:
Jennifer Bean (University of Washington, Seattle), Eileen Bowser
(Curator of Film at the Museum of Modern Art in New York to 1993), Tom
Gunning (University of Chicago), Barry Salt (London Film School),
Charles Wolfe (UC Santa Barbara).

Cambridge Scholars Press has expressed strong interest in publishing the
proceedings of the conference.

Abstracts for presentations (of no more than thirty minutes) should be
submitted by email to Tom Paulus at tompaulus at telenet.be

New deadline for submissions: 10 April 2006.




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