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          Filmmaking and Feminist Criticism in the Digital Era<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          Prato Centre, Italy, 3-4 July 2017</span></b><span
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        aim of this two-day international closed workshop (10-12
        participants) is to
        consider how women filmmakers are responding to the
        opportunities and
        challenges offered by the rise of digital technologies and how
        feminist film
        scholarship is developing new frameworks to account for these
        transformations
        in women’s cinema and beyond. We take the methodology Patricia
        White evolved in
        <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Women’s Cinema, World
          Cinema</i> (Duke
        UP, 2015) as a point of departure for examining the interplay
        between industry
        and technology (new modes of digital production, distribution
        and exhibition),
        texts (style, genre, forms, aesthetics), and audiences (gendered
        modes of
        address, new modes of viewing, intercultural and transnational
        circulation and
        exchange) in the screen works by women from around the world and
        from across a
        wide range of screen media forms, including television, web
        films, video art,
        audiovisual essays, features and documentary. We are
        particularly interested in
        instances where women work across media and where this work
        opens up new spaces
        for women's expression and social action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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        intention is not simply to apply concepts in new media to the
        practice of women
        filmmakers. We encourage workshop participants to also ask what
        difference, if
        any, digitality makes in terms of the kinds of feminisms
        contemporary women’s
        filmmaking engages and/or, indeed, engenders: intersectional,
        reflexive,
        collective, radical, and so forth. How are digital technologies
        shaping new
        modes of feminist film criticism and practice? What are the
        media archaeologies
        of these new modes? What kinds of spaces/places are these new
        modes occurring
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        will be required to submit a 2500-3000 word paper by 1 May 2017.
        Papers will be
        workshopped at the event with the aim of producing a collected
        volume on this
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        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New
        Roman&quot;,serif">Confirmed
        Keynote Speakers: Patricia White, Professor of Film and Media
        Studies, Swarthmore
        College, USA, and Kim Soyoung, Documentary filmmaker and
        Professor of Cinema
        Studies, Korean National University of Arts, South Korea.<o:p></o:p></span>
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        Roman&quot;,serif">Convenors:
        Therese Davis (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:therese.davis@monash.edu">therese.davis@monash.edu</a>) and Olivia Khoo
        (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:olivia.khoo@monash.edu">olivia.khoo@monash.edu</a>)<o:p></o:p></span>
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        send 300 word proposals and a bio to the convenors by 31 October
        2016.
        Notifications by end of November 2016. Please note: t</span><span
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Dr Olivia Khoo
Senior Lecturer, Film and Screen Studies 
Program Co-ordinator, Film, Media and Communications HDR Program
Room B4.26, Building B, Level 4

School of Media, Film and Journalism 
Monash University 
Caulfield East VIC 3143
AUSTRALIA
P: +61-3-9905-2128
E: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:olivia.khoo@monash.edu">olivia.khoo@monash.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/olivia-khoo/">http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/olivia-khoo/</a>

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