From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Oct 4 11:57:08 2024 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema) Date: Fri Oct 4 16:05:09 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] PNWMC Seminar Message-ID: Hello, We are writing to announce the first Pacific Northwest Media Commons in-person seminar on November 11th, 2024. The Pacific Northwest Media Commons is a regional organization dedicated to promoting cinema and media studies scholarship in the Pacific Northwest. As an organization, our goal is to foster a sense of shared community between the many academics and film and media makers in our area and to build connections between disparate academic and production settings. Since 2020, we have been running regular work-in-progress events where community members receive feedback on their current projects. Our membership includes film and media studies faculty, filmmakers, graduate students, and community members from Pacific Northwest area in both the United States and Canada. Please visit the website for the seminar for details about the location, and where to find lodging. This event will include a meet-and-greet, a pedagogy workshop, a ?show-and-tell? featuring local Seattle audiovisual archives, a membership meeting for planning the future of the PNWMC, and a wine and beer reception. Attendees are not expected to give talks but will have time to share their work with each other and learn about resources in our area. If you have not yet registered for this event, please take a moment to do so here and please share this link with any interested parties. The seminar is free and open to graduate students, practitioners, and early, mid, and late career scholars. We are thrilled about getting a chance to all spend time together in-person and to continue building our community as cinema and media studies scholars working in the Pacific Northwest region. To sign up for the PNWMC email list or to get involved, please message: schultzfigub@sesattleu.edu and lsb26@uw.edu. Sincerely, -Benjam?n Schultz-Figueroa + Lauren Berliner Benjam?n Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Associate Professor of Film and Media Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Oct 4 12:13:28 2024 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema) Date: Fri Oct 4 16:05:09 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] [Correction] PNWMC Seminar In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies, the earlier email had the incorrect date for the event, which should have been November 22nd. So sorry for the confusion! -Ben Benjam?n Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Associate Professor of Film and Media Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen From: Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa Date: Friday, October 4, 2024 at 11:57?AM To: Mal Ahern , Jennifer Bean , UW Cinema Studies List , Lauren Berliner , psufilm@pdx.edu , Sangita Gopal , srigolet@uoregon.edu , Alexander Johnston , Film Studies Faculty , Eric Ames , jgosse@uidaho.edu , Zoe Druick , Joseph Clark , Wilkinson, Clare M , tanyagoldman@nyu.edu , strodeek@uw.edu , jixinjia.lawrence@gmail.com , boyechko@uw.edu , Eren.Odabasi@wwu.edu , Felicia.Cosey@wwu.edu , Greg Youmans , Michael Aronson Cc: Lauren Berliner Subject: PNWMC Seminar Hello, We are writing to announce the first Pacific Northwest Media Commons in-person seminar on November 11th, 2024. The Pacific Northwest Media Commons is a regional organization dedicated to promoting cinema and media studies scholarship in the Pacific Northwest. As an organization, our goal is to foster a sense of shared community between the many academics and film and media makers in our area and to build connections between disparate academic and production settings. Since 2020, we have been running regular work-in-progress events where community members receive feedback on their current projects. Our membership includes film and media studies faculty, filmmakers, graduate students, and community members from Pacific Northwest area in both the United States and Canada. Please visit the website for the seminar for details about the location, and where to find lodging. This event will include a meet-and-greet, a pedagogy workshop, a ?show-and-tell? featuring local Seattle audiovisual archives, a membership meeting for planning the future of the PNWMC, and a wine and beer reception. Attendees are not expected to give talks but will have time to share their work with each other and learn about resources in our area. If you have not yet registered for this event, please take a moment to do so here and please share this link with any interested parties. The seminar is free and open to graduate students, practitioners, and early, mid, and late career scholars. We are thrilled about getting a chance to all spend time together in-person and to continue building our community as cinema and media studies scholars working in the Pacific Northwest region. To sign up for the PNWMC email list or to get involved, please message: schultzfigub@sesattleu.edu and lsb26@uw.edu. Sincerely, -Benjam?n Schultz-Figueroa + Lauren Berliner Benjam?n Schultz-Figueroa (he, him, his) Associate Professor of Film and Media Seattle University 901 12th Ave Seattle, WA 98122 schultzfigub@seattleu.edu https://www.benjaminschultzfigueroa.com Author of The Celluloid Specimen: Moving Image Research into Animal Life available from UC Press here: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520342347/the-celluloid-specimen -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From uwcinema at u.washington.edu Fri Oct 18 12:20:46 2024 From: uwcinema at u.washington.edu (UW Cinema Studies List via Uwcinema) Date: Fri Oct 18 12:21:38 2024 Subject: [UWcinema] =?windows-1252?q?CMS_Works_in_Progress_Talk=3A_=2220th?= =?windows-1252?q?_Century_Fox=92s_CinemaScope_Lens-leasing_Program_and_Ho?= =?windows-1252?q?ng_Kong_Anamorphic_Cinema=92s_Deterred_Beginnings_in_the?= =?windows-1252?q?_1950s=22_by_Yumo_Yan?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi All, Please find below the details for the upcoming CMS Works in Progress Talk next Friday, Oct 25, 3:30-5:00 in the Allen Auditorium: 20th Century Fox?s CinemaScope Lens-leasing Program and Hong Kong Anamorphic Cinema?s Deterred Beginnings in the 1950s Yumo Yan (PhD candidate, Cinema and Media Studies) [cid:0c4a4dbc-9f5b-4a10-ad49-f368e59e450f] Friday, Oct 25th, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library What was Hong Kong?s first anamorphic film has long been subject to debate. In this talk, I present my archival findings around two films made by the Hong Kong Grandview Film Company that tried but ultimately failed to kickstart the colony?s anamorphic era in the early 1950s?the 1954 Xin Yutangchun (The Love of Susan, now lost), and the 1956 Xiao Taohong (Little Peach Blossom, never completed). I reveal how Grandview?s failure to produce the colony?s first anamorphic film as early as 1954 was a direct result of 20th Century Fox?s stringent CinemaScope lens-leasing program, which controlled the global distribution of CinemaScope taking lenses. Faced with Fox?s monopoly over anamorphic technology, I demonstrate how Hong Kong film companies like Grandview sought alternative and creative ways to combat American technological imperialism. Feel free to forward to interested parties, thank you. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Mavis Siu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Cheers, Mavis Siu ________________________________ From: Mavis Siu Sent: Friday, October 18, 2024 12:06 PM To: cmsfaculty@uw.edu ; cmsfaculty_adjuncts@uw.edu ; cmsgrads@uw.edu Subject: CMS Works in Progress Talk: "20th Century Fox?s CinemaScope Lens-leasing Program and Hong Kong Anamorphic Cinema?s Deterred Beginnings in the 1950s" by Yumo Yan Hi All, Please find below the details for the upcoming Works in Progress Talk: 20th Century Fox?s CinemaScope Lens-leasing Program and Hong Kong Anamorphic Cinema?s Deterred Beginnings in the 1950s Yumo Yan (PhD candidate, Cinema and Media Studies)[cid:0c4a4dbc-9f5b-4a10-ad49-f368e59e450f] Friday, Oct 25th, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Allen Auditorium, Allen Library What was Hong Kong?s first anamorphic film has long been subject to debate. In this talk, I present my archival findings around two films made by the Hong Kong Grandview Film Company that tried but ultimately failed to kickstart the colony?s anamorphic era in the early 1950s?the 1954 Xin Yutangchun (The Love of Susan, now lost), and the 1956 Xiao Taohong (Little Peach Blossom, never completed). I reveal how Grandview?s failure to produce the colony?s first anamorphic film as early as 1954 was a direct result of 20th Century Fox?s stringent CinemaScope lens-leasing program, which controlled the global distribution of CinemaScope taking lenses. Faced with Fox?s monopoly over anamorphic technology, I demonstrate how Hong Kong film companies like Grandview sought alternative and creative ways to combat American technological imperialism. Feel free to forward it to interested parties, thank you. Hope to see you there! Cheers, Mavis Siu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Circulate at will and enjoy. Cheers, JB ? [https://files.constantcontact.com/94339d9f701/94e7f4d3-d00c-46e0-b686-88f974fa9963.jpg] ? CURRENT ISSUE TRANSNATIONAL LATINXS AND DIGITAL MEDIA Vol. 10 No. 4, FALL 2024 FEATURED ARTICLES EDITORIAL Paradoxical/Relation: Latinx+ America, Feminisms, and Digital Media FRANCES NEGR?N-MUNTANER AND ORIANNA CALDER?N-SANDOVAL ARTICLES Rematerialization: Anticolonial Collective Memory through Latinx Digital Art DIANA FLORES RU?Z Transing the ?Problem?: Trans Latinx Micro-Celebrity Media Activism DAN BUSTILLO Translating Yoani: How a Young Woman in a Country Ruled by Old Men with Near Zero Internet Became the World?s Most Famous Blogger?and More FRANCES NEGR?N-MUNTANER Radios y Cacerolas: Feminist Approaches to Online Activism during the 2021 Colombian National Strike LUISA GONZ?LEZ Race-ing Masculinity: An Intersectional Analysis of the Spanish Public Platform Series Riders ORIANNA CALDER?N-SANDOVAL, ?NGELA RIVERA-IZQUIERDO, AND ADELINA S?NCHEZ-ESPINOSA SHORT TAKES Documentary as Memory Archive and Feminist Practice BERNARDITA LLANOS M. Abuela Alma: Exploring Aging Femininity in Disney?s Encanto (2021) MERCEDES ?LVAREZ SAN ROM?N AND ASIER GIL V?ZQUEZ Jayaera: The Multimedia Joy of Afro-Caribbean ?Cuir Bliss? (2008?2024) CELIANY RIVERA-VEL?ZQUEZ INTERVIEW ?I Am a Meme?: Interview with Gad Yola, Drag Artist MIGUEL ?NGEL BLANCO MART?NEZ AND GAD YOLA TRANSLATION Black Feminist Activism in Times of Digital Technology Immersion and Surveillance Capitalism ZELINDA BARROS. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL PORTUGUESE BY FRANCESCA CARROLL LAUSELL WITH FRANCES NEGR?N-MUNTANER FUTURE ISSUES The Films of Camille Billops and James V. Hatch Guest editors Terri Francis and Miriam Petty Nontheatrical Medias Guest editors Tanya Goldman and Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa The Lara Croft 30th Anniversary Special Issue Guest editors Amanda Phillips and Josef Nguyen Making History: Notes on Methods Guest editor Katherine Groo [https://files.constantcontact.com/94339d9f701/91c9c7cd-6928-49d0-8067-ea4474b5e913.gif] [Facebook] [Twitter] Free 30-day trial subscriptions are available to all campus libraries. Remember: every issue of FMH is now available via Print on Demand. Details are here. Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the Fall 2024 issue of Feminist Media Histories, a special issue on Transnational Latinxs and Digital Media, guest edited by Frances Negr?n-Mutaner and Orianna Calder?n-Sandoval. Please be sure to follow us on Facebook and Twitter for news about our limited-time free article access, upcoming events, and more! Editors' Introduction ? Paradoxical/Relation: Latinx+America, Feminisms, and Digital Media ?This special issue of Feminist Media Histories arises from pressing questions about a historic convergence with significant political consequences: the joint rise of digital technologies and feminisms across hemispheric Latinx+ America. In contrast to even two decades ago, an increasingly plural feminism is now one of the most extensive social movements in the region, producing new political forms, knowledge, and subjects. In addition, the people(s) of Latinx+ America are?although unevenly?one of the most networked in the world. While in the United States an estimated 80 to 91 percent of Latinxs are connected to the internet, as of 2021 there were over 500 million Latin American users, and the region?s internet incursion reached 78 percent, surpassing China?s, at 74 percent. Latinx+ Americans are also among the most politically effective deployers of digital technologies. A striking example is the 2019 viral ?Green Wave? mobilization to protest violence against women staged in Chile that spread worldwide, in part due to digital recordings of a performance by the art collective LASTESIS, ?El violador en tu camino? (The Rapist in Your Path). As scholar Myra Mendible has summarized, ?Today?s Latinx feminist activists are . . . using technologies not available to earlier feministas. Most have access to social media and other digital platforms that broaden their audiences and extend their transnational reach.? Building on the work by Mendible, Mary Beltr?n, Mirasol Enr?quez and Marisa Revilla Blanco, among other scholars, this special issue asks: How are Latinx+ American feminisms, including borderlands, Black, Indigenous, diasporic, and queer, among others, using digital media and to what ends? How do hierarchies based on class, race, Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality shape media makers/users and to what effects? In what ways do the Latinx+ America digital arts and the region?s long avant-garde artistic tradition differently ?in-form? feminist politics in the region? What are the implications of a state-sponsored and racial capitalist digital visuality for the region?s political present and future? Ultimately, what histories?herstories and theirstories?might feminist media scholars write of the digital age when Latinx+ America and its users/makers are placed at the center of the discussion, and how may these enable a more just and joyful present? Titled ?Paradoxical/Relation,? the issue engages with and broadens these questions through ten interventions, organized in four parts?peer reviewed research articles and an essay, short takes, an interview, and a translation, which respond by engaging paradox, in two of its core meanings. If a paradox is a situation or context that combines ?contradictory features or qualities,? the work gathered here pays particular attention to the paradoxical dimensions of the relationship between Latinx+ America, feminism, and digital media praxis. At the same time, the contributors embody the etymological roots of the term paradoxa as a ?statement contrary to accepted opinion,? performing a robust critique of neoliberal coloniality and hegemonic understandings of media. Drawing near the notion of paradox with writer ?douard Glissant?s notion of ?poetics of relation,? or the view that social relations are co-constitutive, and ?that our contemporary reality is one of accelerating multiplicity,? the special issue also proposes the notion of ?paradoxical/relation? to consider the ways that paradox is not external to ourselves, our concepts, our movements, or technologies, and therefore fundamental to feminist politics. Accordingly, the special issue brings to the fore the vibrant epistemological diversity or ?el abanico diverso y disperso? (?the diverse and dispersed spectrum?) in the words of activist Agustina Cepeda, characteristic of the region?s feminisms. Importantly, this diversity is not a simple matter of ?inclusion.? Instead, the issue argues that such diversity?which here includes Black, queer, ecofeminist, Indigenous, Caribbean, drag, and trans?is a conceptual and political necessity. The region?s histories of coloniality, including enslavement, genocide, and mass displacement have generated a range of critical perspectives that emerge from struggles against differentiated but articulated structures of power which have distinct genealogies, concepts, and effects, and are not reducible to each other. Indeed, these diverse frameworks and knowledge(s) often conflict in their methods or conclusions, as they do in other political arenas. Yet, by staging this conversation, ?Paradoxical/Relation? suggests that each of these perspectives lays bare a different systemic dimension, enables greater analytic complexity, and allows for a broader and richer politics. [...] ? ? Feminist Media Histories publishes original research, oral histories, primary documents, conference reports, and archival news on radio, television, film, video, digital technologies, and other media across a range of historical periods and global contexts. Inter-medial and trans-national in its approach, Feminist Media Histories examines the historical role gender and sexuality have played in varied media technologies, and documents the engagement of women and LGBTQ communities with these media as audiences, users and consumers, creators and executives, critics, writers and theorists, technicians and laborers, educators, activists, and librarians. ? 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