[csaa-forum] Extended Call for Papers: SSAAANZ2018 USES OF CINEMA

[Phoebe Macrossan]

*Extended Call for Papers: Second Screen Studies Association of Australia
and Aotearoa New Zealand (SSAAANZ) conference, ‘The Uses of Cinema: Film,
Television, Screen’, 2018 <http://ssaaanz.org/conference/>*

*Closing date for submissions: 30 April 2018*

Location: 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
   - Misuses of cinema

Expected plenary speakers (TBC) include:

   - Stella Bruzzi (Warwick University)
   - Allison De Fren (Occidental College, LA)
   - Jason Mittell (Middlebury College, VT)
   - Claire Perkins (Monash University, Melbourne)
   - Haidee Wasson (Concordia University, Montréal)

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

*Please submit your proposals to: Arts-MFJ-UsesOfCinema at monash.edu
<Arts-MFJ-UsesOfCinema at monash.edu>. The conference convenors are:
Constantine Verevis and Deane Williams (Monash University). *

*Phoebe Macrossan*
Ph.D. Candidate | Sessional Tutor | Postgraduate Executive Member Screen
Studies Association of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand (SSAAANZ
<http://ssaaanz.org/>)

UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 AUSTRALIA
T: @phoebemack <https://twitter.com/phoebemack>
W: unsw.academia.edu/PhoebeMacrossan
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