Kaveh Askari (Wayne State University), “Media Aesthetics in the American Lyceu” Jonathan Auerbach (University of Maryland), “Nationalizing Attractions” Ian Christie (Birkbeck College, University of London), “‘By Jingo’: early patriotic entertainments with film”
PANELS AND PRESENTATIONSįrank Gray (University of Brighton), “Our Navy and Animated Imperial Entertainment in 1900” The committee will work in close consultation with Frank Kessler, president of Domitor. The program committee that will select presentation proposals includes Richard Abel, Chair (University of Michigan), Giorgio Bertellini (University of Michigan), Rob King (University of Michigan), and Don Crafton (Notre Dame University). Please send four copies of your proposal to Richard Abel, 8375 Pine Cross Lane, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48103 USA. Proposals are welcome for standard presentations (20 minutes in length or 10 pages double spaced) or for short presentations of research projects. The deadline for submitting either kind of proposal is 21 October 2005 (receiving date). The conference will involve four days of individual presentations, roundtable discussions, and special screenings. Because Domitor is a bi-lingual organization (English and French), all presentations and discussions will be presented in one of the two languages and translated in the other. Several programs of films (including 35mm) will be screened during the conference. We welcome suggestions for particular film titles and/or events as part of those programs. If early cinema developed principally as an international phenomenon, for instance, when, where, how, and to what degree did it become “national” or “nationalized”? What conceptions of the “national” in circulation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries became bound up with early cinema: for instance, how was the “national” aligned with (or against) European colonialism, American imperialism, and the phenomenon of oceanic migrations? Given the Atlantic pervasiveness of social Darwinism and eugenics, how did films racialize and gender national differences, for both ideological and commercial purposes? In what ways could specific practices from production and distribution to exhibition, programming, and promotion be characterized as “national”? In what ways were audiences “nationalized” (or not) through early cinema programming? How might certain emerging genres (e.g., westerns, historical films, comedies or comic series, mythologicals) be described as “national,” or how might one or more genres reveal something particular about a “national” culture or its construction of identity? How might the “national” be figured in close textual analysis (including intertitles and sound accompaniment), or how might close textual analysis reveal something about a “national” culture or its construction of identity? This subject is of particular importance for early cinema because it encompasses a great number of different issues. The subject or theme of the conference will be the concept of the “national,” or the “nation,” and early cinema. Conference activities will take place in the auditorium and assembly hall of the Rackham Graduate School, lecture room B of the Modern Language Building, and the Michigan Theater (a restored 1928 palace cinema). The Ninth International Domitor conference will be hosted by the Department of Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), 30 May-2 June 2006. The conference was devoted to exploring how early cinema became “national” or “nationalized,” and how such discourses overlapped and intersected with questions of European colonialism, American imperialism, race, gender, and many other concerns. The Ninth International Domitor Conference was held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and hosted by the University’s Department of Screen Arts & Cultures.
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