From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Tue Oct 4 01:14:26 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] Fwd: US Premiere at the Romanian Film Festival Seattle In-Reply-To: References: <64512e17dcf1cd87f9bb30243.83e8ca1c3d.20221002145929.c9f0b0ba39.a523c14a@mail38.wdc01.mcdlv.net> Message-ID: News from the Romanian Film Festival Seattle?.. AMERICAN ROMANIAN CULTURAL SOCIETY Women Directors at RFF Seattle View this email in your browser [mailchi.mp] [https://mcusercontent.com/64512e17dcf1cd87f9bb30243/images/532b52e9-da66-71f4-507d-f0b7cb6f163b.png] Immaculate, by Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark Dear friends, As we keeping unveiling more of the line-up for the Romanian Film Festival Seattle, we want to acknowledge that our film selection carries a strong array of women's voices. From established directors to fresh new voices, these stories offer nuanced perspectives that reinterpret the world around us. Romania's Selection for the 2023 Oscars We are so excited to share that we?re bringing the US Premiere of Immaculate to our festival, which is also Romania?s pick for the Best International Feature Film Award at the 2023 Academy Awards. In addition to being Monica Stan's impressive directorial debut, the film also offers a stellar performance by new-comer Ana Dumitra?cu. When young Daria enters rehab, her perceived innocence gains her the protection of the mostly male junkies inside, but she soon finds out that this special treatment comes at a great price. Watch the trailer here [arcsproject.us17.list-manage.com]. [https://mcusercontent.com/64512e17dcf1cd87f9bb30243/images/93d7e8fc-c001-7ff3-09ac-0feec4e56dde.png] Ana Dumitra?cu as Daria in Immaculate Festival Highlights: The Certainty of Probabilities Another notable directorial debut comes from Raluca Durbac? with The Certainty of Probabilities. This documentary, made entirely from archival footage, is an exploration of the year 1968 in socialist Romania. There will also be a Q&A with Raluca so stay tuned as we announce more details! Watch the trailer here [arcsproject.us17.list-manage.com]. [https://mcusercontent.com/64512e17dcf1cd87f9bb30243/images/8727663c-f9dc-0584-1bb0-9ea5553ee2a3.jpg] Raluca Durbac? is a director and film critic. She is a graduate of the National Film and Theatre School in Bucharest (2015) with a degree in Film Studies, and of the National School for Communication and Public Relations (2006) with a degree in Political Communication. She has been a contributing editor for well-known Romanian film magazine Film Menu from 2012 to 2016 and has published film studies essays in two editions of the collective volume The Politics of Film in 2014 and 2018. She has over 10 years experience in film production and development and is an alumni of Talents Sarajevo 2014 and Torino FilmLab's 2012 AdaptLab program. 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All the best, -Ben Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Assistant Professor of Film Studies Seattle University 901 12thAve Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available for pre-order from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: mpdf.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 738982 bytes Desc: mpdf.pdf URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Wed Oct 19 19:23:22 2022 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List) Date: Mon Mar 18 15:03:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] The Velvet Light Trap #93 CFP: "Reconsidering Mass Media" In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, We are Laura C. Brown and Luis Rivera-Figueroa, the Co-Lead Coordinating Editors for The Velvet Light Trap Issue #93. We are pleased to announce that we are accepting submissions for Issue #93, ?Reconsidering Mass Media.? In addition to responses to our themed issue, we welcome submissions broadly related to the journal?s focus on critical, theoretical, and historical approaches to film and media studies. Submissions are due January 31, 2023. Thank you for your consideration (and apologies for cross-posting!), Laura & Luis ----- VLT #93: Reconsidering Mass Media Summer 2022 saw Top Gun: Maverick gross $1 billion globally in its first month of release; in Fall 2021, Squid Game became Netflix?s most popular series, with 1.65 billion hours streamed in its first four weeks of release; on May 6, 2022, Bad Bunny became the Spotify artist with the most one-day streams globally, with 183 million streams; and TikTok has received over 3.5 billion downloads since 2018. Additionally, streaming platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime have massive reach over international audiences, despite their varied location-specific libraries. In terms of reaching a large audience or consumer base, these instances fit historical definitions of mass media. However, studying these phenomena require conjunctural and complex analyses of mass media that highlight both historical continuities and contemporary transformations of the concept through industrial, textual, and audience lenses. Scholars, commentators, journalists, and audiences have used the concept of mass media to refer to media industries and companies with vast reach, popular genre formulas, and widely-consumed media artifacts ranging from consumer electronics to programming and content. More recently, assumptions of the homogeneity and uniformity of ?the mass? have been challenged by industrial trends toward audience fragmentation and content diversification. Trends beginning with the widespread introduction of cable television in the United States in the 1970s through the present ever-expanding online media landscape?including app-based, algorithm-driven personalization of content?have resulted in the segmentation of audiences, media industries, and content across gendered, racial, ethnic, sexual, generational, and cultural lines. However, within segmented audiences, networks of users, and local spaces, there are instances of broadly disseminated and collectively shared mediated experiences. For example, we have seen mass media phenomena occur within specific digital publics, social cohorts, other groups, and spaces such as Black Twitter and Gay Twitter, BookTok, or local news telecasts. Beyond the recognition of internal heterogeneity of the mass and the fragmentation of audiences, global media production, distribution, and consumption challenge and reimagine the national boundaries as a privileged site of distinction. Even as current scholarly and industrial discourses challenge the assumed homogeneity and unity of mass media, many of these logics and tactics continue to shape the media landscape. The Velvet Light Trap #93 seeks a variety of topics and approaches to reconsider mass media in both contemporary and historical contexts. We welcome submissions that work to revisit, redefine, renegotiate, complicate, or challenge previously-held notions of mass media through a multitude of approaches, including (but not limited to) audience studies, cultural geography, discourse analysis, distribution studies, global media studies, localism, media industries studies, sports media studies, taste cultures, and textual analysis. We welcome contemporary and historical explorations of any of the following themes: * Defining and understanding mass media and the notion of ?the mass? * Examining under- or unstated assumptions of gender, race, sexuality, and/or representation within mass media, both in terms of texts and audiences * Mass media and geo-cultural markets, distribution, and/or consumption * Distinctions or intersections between mass media and popular media * Reconsidering notions of ?mass? in a global, multi-pronged media landscape * Mass media as a framework to describe texts that are made for mass consumption * Considering how methods of remediation, reevaluation, or revisitation may construct mass media * Mass media and audience maximization * Locating and negotiating mass media within niches (and vice versa) * Reconsidering taste cultures as they have been assigned to mass media * Complicating notions of nationality within mass media * Highlighting instances of ?unintended? mass media (e.g. sleeper successes) * Interrogating ideas of ?going viral? and ?viral media? * Imaginations and constructions of the audiences privileged as ?mass? * Mass mediation as it pertains to data mining, surveillance capitalism, and machine learning Open Call The Velvet Light Trap is pleased to announce that, in addition to accepting submissions that relate to the above theme, we will accept general submissions broadly related to the journal?s focus on critical, theoretical, and historical approaches to film and media studies. We aim to create a new space for scholarship that enhances the journal?s overall mission and work that continues the research conversations to which our themed issues have contributed. We hope that scholars inspired by the work published in our themed issues, past and present, will especially consider submitting their work. Even as our themes will continue to change each issue, we want to sustain ongoing investment in and investigation of the questions each issue of The Velvet Light Trap poses. Submission Guidelines Submissions should be between 6,000 and 7,500 words, formatted in Chicago Style. Please submit an electronic copy of the paper, along with a separate one-page abstract, both saved as Microsoft Word files. Remove any identifying information so that the submission is suitable for anonymous review. Quotations not in English should be accompanied by translations. Send electronic manuscripts and/or any questions to vltcfp@gmail.com by January 31, 2023. About the Journal The Velvet Light Trap is a scholarly, peer-reviewed journal of film, television, and new media. The journal draws on a variety of theoretical and historiographical approaches from the humanities and social sciences and welcomes any effort that will help foster the ongoing processes of evaluation and negotiation in media history and criticism. While TVLT maintains its traditional commitment to the study of American film, it also expands its scope to television and other media, to adjacent institutions, and to other nations' media. The journal encourages both approaches and objects of study that have been neglected or excluded in past scholarship. Graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Texas at Austin coordinate issues in alternation, and each issue is devoted to a particular theme. The Velvet Light Trap?s Editorial Advisory Board includes such notable scholars as Manuel Avil?s-Santiago, Lauren S. Berliner, Andre Brock, Dolores In?s Casillas, Aymar Jean Christian, Norma Coates, Brian Fauteux, Allyson Nadia Field, Racquel Gates, Aniko Imre, Deborah Jaramillo, Derek Kompare, Lori Morimoto, Ruben Ram?rez-S?nchez, Debra Ramsey, Bob Rehak, Samantha Noelle Sheppard, and Alyx Vesey. TVLT's graduate student editors are assisted by their local faculty advisors: Mary Beltr?n, Ben Brewster, Jonathan Gray, Michele Hilmes (emeritus), Lea Jacobs, Derek Johnson, Shanti Kumar, Charles Ram?rez Berg, Thomas Schatz (emeritus), and Janet Staiger (emeritus). --- Laura C. Brown (she/her/hers) and Luis Rivera-Figueroa (he/him/his) Lead Coordinating Editors, The Velvet Light Trap #93 University of Texas at Austin -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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