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<p><strong>B for BAD Cinema: Aesthetics, Politics and Cultural Value</strong></p>
<p>Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference, Monash
University, Melbourne, April 15–17, 2009</p>
<p>Over the past decade, paracinema – a movement that has grown up
around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies – has seen a
counter-cultural valorisation of all forms of cinematic trash or
‘badfilm.’ In many internet and print sources devoted to the
celebration of paracinema, the term B-movie has (in contrast to its
earlier studio-era sense) come to mean almost anything: disreputable
and unworthy movies, low-budget exploitation movies, straight to TV or
video movies, and even big-budget studio movies. B for BAD cinema seeks
to negotiate some of the (aesthetic and moral) values and judgments
inscribed in a B-movie culture in which films are deemed to be
good-because-bad or bad-because-good. B for BAD cinema invites
international film scholars, critics and filmmakers to present their
thoughts on badfilm, with a particular focus on the following themes:</p>
<ol>
<li>Cultural value and theory</li>
<li>Bad feeling and affect</li>
<li>Aesthetic value and bad art</li>
<li>Cultural morals and politics</li>
<li>Bad film theory and criticism</li>
</ol>
<p>Plenary speakers include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Elisabeth Bronfen</li>
<li>J. Hoberman</li>
<li>Adrian Martin</li>
<li>Ernest Mathijs</li>
<li>Murray Pomerance</li>
<li>Jeffrey Sconce</li>
</ul>
<p>The Conference Conveners will accept proposals for individual papers
or three-speaker panel sessions until <strong>November 14 2008</strong>.
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Abstracts of no more than 250-words and a 100-word biography should be
sent to Con Ververis: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au">Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au</a> <br>
Website:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/news-and-events/2009/bad-cinema.php">http://arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/news-and-events/2009/bad-cinema.php</a> <br>
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