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Approaching the Past & Future: Cinematic Time Travels (SCMS 2009, Tokyo)
| Location: | Japan |
| Conference Date: | 2009-05-21 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-07-28 |
| Announcement ID: |
163348 |
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Conference: The Society for Cinema and Media Studies 2009 conference (May 21-24, Tokyo)
Deadline: AUGUST 10, 2008
Cinematic (time-based) media seem particularly predisposed to treat time as space, duration as distance, the past and future as more or less exotic terrain to be visited, explored, and occupied. As such, cinema has a special relationship with the fictional technology of the time machine. This panel looks into the shared history, salient links, and irreducible differences between cinematic/mediated experience and time travel. What insights might be gained into the expressive powers of film and media (e.g., as historiography) by figuring cinema as a time machine or, conversely, by considering the time machine “cinematic?” Papers might approach the topic from any direction, e.g., via the durable narrative motif of time travel in its many forms: literary, filmic, televisual, or otherwise. Proposals taking advantage of the relevance of the topic to the conference theme, "Mobilizing the Future/Screening the Past," are especially welcome. Please submit a brief abstract by email to rbruckne@usc.edu no later than midnight, PST, August 10, 2008.
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René T. Bruckner
Div. of Critical Studies, School of Cinematic Arts
Lucas 405
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2211
Email: rbruckne@usc.edu
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