Panel for ASEEES 2012: Pre-Rev Cinema Through Visual Studies

[Dawn Seckler]

Dear SEELANGtsy-

I'm sending this out on behalf of a friend, Oksana Chefranova.  Please
respond to her at the email address provided below if you are interested in
this panel topic for next year's ASEEES conference.

Best,
Dawn

I would like to propose the following panel for the ASEEES 2012 conference
in New Orleans.
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*Revisiting Russian Pre-Revolutionary Cinema Through Visual Studies*

Research in Russian film has become the foundation for a broader study of
visual culture, framing the moving image with interdisciplinary and
intermedial discourses. The panel will look beyond stylistic analyses,
genre explorations and feminist studies of melodrama. Instead, we will draw
on surveys of Russian pre-revolutionary cinema vis-a-vis different visual
practices and center on crossing disciplinary boundaries of art history,
literary studies, and film and images studies to place the moving image in
the more inclusive context of the visual imagination of the 1900s-1910s.
The panel invites papers that discuss visual texts and examine issues in
Russian pre-revolutionary cinema including but not limited to:
•   cinema and other aspects of visual culture and images (photography,
painting, stereoscope, advertising, etc.)
•    space and place
•    representation of the domestic interior and iconography of design
•    landscape and images of nature
•     the body and face
•     images of dance and dancers
•     representation of supernatural and film image
•      strategies of seeing
•      pre-revolutionary melodrama and gender reconsideration through
visual studies

If anyone is interested in participating on the panel, please, contact me
at oc232 at nyu.edu

Best,
Oksana Chefranova
Department of Cinema Studies, NYU

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