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Cinema and the City
Interdisciplinary perspectives
Published on Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Abstract
The conference aims to explore the relationships established between cinema and urban areas. We want to stress the connections woven between cities and cinema, films, fiction and documentaries – important unconventional sources for the understanding of social and cultural contexts. We intend to focus on the modalities used in films to tell stories – through images and speech – concerning cities, territories, and places, residents’ lives in relation to spaces, to buildings, to landscapes, as well as to its urban culture as a whole. The perspective we have chosen for this conference is interdisciplinary and cinema will be considered as a medium to be understood and interpreted in several, possibly comparative, ways.
Announcement
International Conference
November 29-30, 2019
University of Palermo, Department of Architecture, viale delle Scienze
Room 1.3 and 1.4, Main Building
Deadline for proposals: November 6, 2019
Argument
The conference aims to explore the relationships established between cinema and urban areas. We want to stress the connections woven between cities and cinema, films, fiction and documentaries – important unconventional sources for the understanding of social and cultural contexts. We intend to focus on the modalities used in films to tell stories – through images and speech – concerning cities, territories, and places, residents’ lives in relation to spaces, to buildings, to landscapes, as well as to its urban culture as a whole. The perspective we have chosen for this conference is interdisciplinary and cinema will be considered as a medium to be understood and interpreted in several, possibly comparative, ways. Actually, cinema, as a specific cultural artefact, expresses both individual and collective viewpoints mirroring cultures and hybridizations that can be explored by various disciplines and comparative perspectives. This complexity, possible reflection of the contemporary world, is perhaps more tangible in cinema than in other expressive forms, making it accessible to many people and at the same time a medium in which several genres and contents meet and can be analysed and compared. We are particularly interested in comparative perspectives and interdisciplinary viewpoints. As a result, the conference aims to engage researchers from different countries and various fields of study in order to explore the multiple ways through which cinema is able to contain and manifest crucial aspects of cities and urban spaces. Anthropologists, architects, urban planners, geographers, sociologists, film critics, semioticians, scholars of aesthetics, of images, of cultural studies, as well as film directors, documentary film makers and designers are invited to share their experiences and their ideas. We intend to collect the articles and publish them in a collective volume.
The Committee welcomes papers on any-related topic. Suggested topics may include:
- Cultural and social exchanges and/or conflicts between cultures, people and places
- Cultural hybridizations
- Urban spaces: the concrete building
- Urban spaces: the symbolic building
- Urban spaces: beauty
- Urban spaces: transformation
- Urban spaces: relationships between people
- Living, moving, dwelling
- Urban economy and the real estate market
- Urban rituals
- Visual imaginaries
- Cities and comics
- Film photography and urban spaces
- Food and cities
- Politics, cinema and cities
- Ghettoes and cities as “prisons”
- Urban distress and marginalization, inclusion and exclusion
- Transforming urban spaces
- Centres, suburbs, gentrification
- Cities and dreams
- Urban biographies: telling the city
- Everyday life and urban infrastructures
- Domestic spaces and cities
- Identity and urban configurations
- Old and new methodologies of analysis
- Imaginary horizons and cities
- Perception, interaction and urban spaces
- Urban Resilience/Resistance
Submission Guidelines
Proposals and information should be sent to:
- Flavia Schiavo (flaviaschiavo62@gmail.com)
- Stefano Montes (montes.stefano@tiscalinet.it)
Deadline for proposals and biodata: Novembre 6, 2019
Proposal abstract and title: max 250 words
Time for speech: 20 minutes
Languages used in the conferences: Italian, English, French and Spanish
Participation is free, travelling, accommodation and meals are covered by participants.
Scientific Coordinators
- Flavia Schiavo
- Stefano Montes
Organizing committee
- Flavia Schiavo
- Stefano Montes
- Leonardo Mercatanti
- Federico Montanari
- Alessandro Prato
- Gaetano Sabato
- Giusi Coppola
- Massimo Bonura
- Alessio Arena
Administrative organisation
Department of Architecture, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze 90128, Palermo
Subjects
- Ethnology, anthropology (Main category)
- Society > Ethnology, anthropology > Cultural anthropology
- Society > Geography > Urban geography
- Society > Urban studies
- Mind and language > Representation > Visual studies
- Society > Geography
- Mind and language > Representation
- Mind and language > Representation > Architecture
Places
- Room 1.3 and 1.4, Main Building - Viale delle Scienze
Palermo, Italian Republic (90100)
Date(s)
- Wednesday, November 06, 2019
Attached files
Keywords
- Anthropology, Cinema, Urban studies, Geography, City
Contact(s)
- Stefano Montes
courriel : stefano [dot] montes [at] unipa [dot] it
Reference Urls
Information source
- Stefano Montes
courriel : stefano [dot] montes [at] unipa [dot] it
License
This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.
To cite this announcement
« Cinema and the City », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, October 30, 2019, https://calenda.org/696177