[csaa-forum] The Uses of Cinema -

[Deane Williams]

*CALL FOR PAPERS*

Second SCREEN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND AOTEAROA
(SSAAANZ) CONFERENCE (2018)



*The Uses of Cinema*

*Film • Television • Screen Media*



School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University, Melbourne

November 21–23, 2018



In recent years film and television scholarship has seen a renewed
focus on *the
uses of cinema* – that is, on educational, instructional, non-theatrical,
client-sponsored and government-sponsored filmmaking – in collections such
as *Films That Work *(Hediger and Vonderau, 2009), *Useful Cinema *(Acland
and Wasson, 2011), *Films of Fact: A History of Science in Documentary
Films and Television *(Boon 2008) and* Learning with the Lights Off:
Educational Film* (Orgeron, Orgeron and Streible 2012).

This work – along with 2018’s fiftieth anniversary of the events of May
1968 – provides an occasion for reflection upon *the usefulness of film*
and television practice and scholarship, and offers twin points of
reference for the Second Biennial Conference of the Screen Studies
Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ).

SSAAANZ invites papers and panel suggestions from researchers, archivists,
educators, policymakers, and practitioners on any aspects of *the **critical,
social and political uses of cinema* including, *but not limited* to the
following themes:

·       Activist film and television

·       1968 and global film culture

·       Film and television practice and praxis

·       Film and ethnography

·       Utilitarian filmmaking

·       Women and cinema

·       Seriality and cinema

·       Cinema and the environment

·       Cinema and the brain

·       Film and pedagogy

·       Film and tourism

·       Language use on screen

·       Mis-uses of cinema



Expected plenary speakers (TBC) include:

·       Stella Bruzzi (University College, London)

·       Allison De Fren (Occidental College, LA)

·       Cristina Álvarez López (Elias Querejeta Zine Eskola,

      San Sebastián, Spain) and Adrian Martin (Monash University)

·       Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)

·       Claire Perkins (Monash University)

·       Haidee Wasson (Concordia University)



*Abstracts for individual papers and for pre-constituted panels (of up to
three speakers) are welcomed on any of the conference themes.  Due March 30
2018*

For papers, please submit an abstract of 150-200 words and a bio of 50
words for each presenter.

For panel proposals please submit a proposal for a panel comprising 3
speakers (3 x 20 min papers). Please provide a descriptive title for the
panel, abstracts of 150-200 words each and a bio of 50 words for each
presenter.

*Submit proposal no later than:* 30 March 2018
Please submit your proposals to the following email address:
arts-mfj-usesofcinema at monash.edu

The 2018 SSAAANZ conference convenors are:

Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams (Monash University).

For general conference enquires please send an email to
con.verevis at monash.edu

-- 
Associate Professor Deane Williams

Film and Screen Studies
School of Media, Film and Journalism
Room 425a Building B
Caulfield Campus
Monash University
Victoria 3145
Australia
Tel: 61 3 990 35078
Fax: 61 3 990 52135

Film and Screen Studies
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/

Latest Book: *The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place*
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-cinema-of-sean-penn/9780231176255

We acknowledge the Traditional Owners, and Elders past and present, of all
the lands on which Monash University operates.
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