Want to Read Your Article on Film Theory and Aesthetics?
posted August 16, 2011
Dear academics: The Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association has issued a call for papers on film theory and aesthetics to anyone who would like to propose presenting their work at the association’s annual conference, which runs February 8-11 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. You have until December 1 2011 – see our Workplace announcement.
Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics
posted August 16, 2011
Call for Papers: Film Theory and Aesthetics 2012 Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association 33sd Annual Conference February 8-11, 2012, Albuquerque, NM The Film Theory and Aesthetics Area is seeking proposals for review, from now until December 1 2011. Suggestions for possible presentations: Precinema and its influence on film theory Theories of Early and Silent cinema
9/11 TV News Archive: Learning from Recorded Memory
posted August 16, 2011
Learning from Recorded Memory mini-conference Wednesday, August 24 2011, 4-6pm Place: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 6th Floor, Michelson Theater, New York Internet Archive and NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program are inviting scholars, journalists. and students to a mini-conference to introduce the 9/11 TV News Archive. In an
Describing Moving Images
posted August 15, 2011
September 27 2011 Simmons University, Boston, USA Northeast Historic Film is offering a full-day workshop titled “Describing Moving Images” for managers and staff members of special collections, historical societies, and archives, as well as “lone arrangers” and LIS students. The event, to be held at Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences Tech Lab,
Preserving San Francisco Bay Area Television
posted August 15, 2011
The American television network CBS’s Bay Area affiliate, KPIX-TV, reports on the work of the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive, at San Francisco State University, in a short film that summarizes issues relating to preserving surviving footage and making it available to the public.
Filming the Aftermath of Genocide
posted August 15, 2011
Rwanda has been far from alone in experiencing the horrors of genocide. Now, efforts are under way to advance a long, painful process of national healing by creating an audio-visual record of those events at the Iriba Center for Multimedia Heritage.
The Audio-Visual Record of a Brutalized Nation
posted August 15, 2011
Rwanda has been far from alone in experiencing the horrors of genocide. Now, efforts are under way to advance a long, painful process of national healing by creating an audio-visual record of those events at the Iriba Center for Multicultural Heritage.
Jungleland Revisited
posted August 8, 2011
Louis Goebel moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1919, worked on films sets with animals, and decided to rent lions to moviemakers. The result was the fabled Jungleland, reports the Thousand Oaks Acorn.
Robert Ryan Remembered
posted August 8, 2011
In the New York Times, Manohla Dargis writes about a retrospective of films starring Robert Ryan: “The two dozen features in a Film Forum series dedicated to Ryan and opening on Friday includes dazzlers, solid genre fare, some curiosities and a few duds. Most are better than anything playing now at the multiplex.”
A Home for Nicholas Ray
posted August 3, 2011
The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has announced that it has acquired the archives of director Nicholas Ray (1911–1979), best known for his 1955 film, Rebel Without a Cause starring James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Natalie Wood, and much admired by French New Wave directors, including Jean-Luc Godard, who declared