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Documentary Screening of John Gianvito
Saturday 4th Nov to Monday 6th Nov The Centre for Film & Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with Close-Up Cinema, is pleased to present American documentary director John Gianvito’s complete seminal diptych For Example, the Philippines over one weekend. A screening of Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010) on Saturday, 4 November will be followed by the UK premiere of Subic (Wake) (2015) on Sunday 5 November. To mark the occasion, John Gianvito will be present for Q&As after the films. Weekend events will be complemented by a masterclass on political cinema, and Gianvito “in conversation” on Monday, 6 November. In anticipation, Gianvito’s earlier film Profit Move and the Whispering Wind (2007) will be screened at the…
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CFP: Representing and Remembering War
An international conference investigating war, literature, and art at the United States Air Force Academy on September 20-21, 2018 solicits both disciplinary and interdisciplinary presentations on “Representing and Remembering War.” The conference seeks a variety of genre submissions, both critical and creative, including literary criticism, journalism, rhetorical analysis, cultural studies, theory, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, film studies, photography, painting, and music. As an international forum on the cultural implications of warfare, the conference is designed to bring together a multitude of perspectives, critical approaches, and discourse communities on the topics of warfare and its representations across all time periods and conflicts. We encourage submissions that illuminate, challenge, deconstruct, engage with, or…
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CFP: Wilfred Owen and Beyond
26th to 29th October 2018 The Oxford Centre for Life Writing, in partnership with the Western Front Association and the Wilfred Owen Association, is pleased to be hosting a conference to mark the centenary of Wilfred Owen’s death. Papers should relate to the theme of Wilfred Owen’s legacy. Proposals are invited and should take the form of an abstract not exceeding 250 words for a paper of 20 minutes duration. Owen’s life was tragically short. Any study of his life is by definition overshadowed by his death and the bitter irony of its timing, at the very end of the war. Unlike some of his lesser discussed contemporaries, such as…
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America’s Digital Army: Games at Work and War
By Robertson Allen “A rigorous and fascinating glimpse of what is more than just one online game. America’s Digital Army opens up crucial issues about the conflation of war and work, play and drill, pleasure and simulation, as well as the labor involved in the production of the militarized, fear-ridden cultural politics of the contemporary United States.”—Jussi Parikka, professor of technological culture and aesthetics at the University of Southampton, Winchester School of Art “A compelling account and a critical assessment of a gaming reality and the militarization of society; a groundbreaking ethnography deciphering the illusory separation between the real and the fictional, and the fun and the dead-serious.”—Sverker Finnström, coeditor of Virtual War and…
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War Pictures: Cinema, Violence, and Style in Britain, 1939-1945
Kent Puckett: Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley Click here for more information In this original and engaging work, author Kent Puckett looks at how British filmmakers imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime through film. The Second World War posed unique representational challenges to Britain’s filmmakers. Because of its logistical enormity, the unprecedented scope of its destruction, its conceptual status as total, and the way it affected everyday life through aerial bombing, blackouts, rationing, and the demands of total mobilization, World War II created new, critical opportunities for cinematic representation. Beginning with a close and critical analysis of Britain’s cultural scene, War Pictures examines where the historiography of…