We have now opened registration for attendance at Moving Pictures and Photoplays! Our registration fees are purely to cover catering costs, and you can view details of ticket types and make a booking on our Eventbrite page.
Our conference programme is finalised! You can view it and download a copy here.
Moving Pictures and Photoplays: New Perspectives in Silent Cinema is a two day postgraduate conference, to be held on the 18th and 19th of June 2015 at the Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York. We welcome proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers on any aspect relating to silent cinema and film industry of the silent period. Possible topics can include, but are by no means limited to the following themes and subject areas:
• National Cinemas
• Hollywood Silent Period
• Early Cinema and Cinema of Attractions
• Technologies of Silent Film: Sound and Vision
• Star Studies
• The Sound of Silents: Sound Effects, Foley or Music
• Practices of Film Exhibition
• Representations of Gender and/or Race
• Fan Culture and Film Magazine
• Aesthetics
Please submit a 300 word abstract of your presentation to silentcinemaconference[at]gmail.com by 27th of March 2015, with 5 keywords and a short bio to best describe you and your research area. We will contact you by 17th April 2015 with our decision.
Attendance is free, but places are limited. Small travel reimbursements up to a
maximum of £50 will be available. If you wish to be considered for one, please write Travel Allowance in the top left corner of your abstract and include the name of the place you will be traveling from. The reimbursements will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us using ‘Contact Us’ section.
Download this Call for Papers as a PDF here.
Our confirmed keynote speakers are:
Prof Jennifer M. Bean (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies, Adjunct Associate Professor of the Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Washington)
Prof Stefania Serafin (Professor in Sound for Multimodal Environments, Medialogy Aalborg University, Copenhagen)
We have just been awarded funding from our Doctoral Training College, the White Rose College of the Arts and Humanities. Thanks to their generosity, we can offer free attendance to our postgraduate attendees. Many thanks, WRoCAH!
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