Practices of World Building. Fans, Industries, Media Fields

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All the talks are already available on the ARTHEMIS website!

http://arthemis-cinema.ca/fr/colloque/practices-world-building-international-conference

Practices of World Building International Conference | arthemis.nt2.ca Fans, Industries, Media FieldsUniversité Concordia, EV 1,615, 1515 St. Catherine W.Organisateur(s): Lefebvre, MartinBoni, MartaConférencier(s): Collins, JimHills, MattJeffries, DruLeveratto, Jean-MarcMacchia, GiovanniPenley, ConstancePescatore, GuglielmoPicard, MartinRyan, Marie-LaureWolf, Mark J.P....

An introduction to the conference, from ARTHEMIS's blog.

http://arthemis-cinema.ca/en/blog/expedition-worlds

An expedition into worlds | arthemis.nt2.ca Author(s): Boni, MartaThe idea of putting together the panels of this conference started from the need to study the deep interest of film, television and communication studies for emergent new media and the related practices circulating in the media sphere today. More specifically, we're interested…

New website:

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------------ Conference Schedule -------------------

June 6

09:30 AM Introduction : Marta Boni, Martin Lefebvre

THINKING WORLDS ACROSS MEDIA

10:00 M.L. Ryan : Texts, Worlds, Stories : On the Aesthetics of Narrative
and Semiotic Proliferation

10:45 Guglielmo Pescatore : Narrative Ecosystems : a Multidisciplinary
Approach to Media Worlds

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 Martin Picard : Worlds and Video Games : the Case of Japan

12:30 Lunch break

BUILDING WORLDS

14:00 Mark J.P. Wolf : Beyond Immersion : Absorption, Saturation, and
Overflow in the Building of Imaginary Worlds

14:45 Break

15:00 Florence Goyet : Changing Worlds : Can Fan Culture Work as
Epic?

15:45 Giovanni Macchia : Alternative Worlds, Multiverse : The Point of
View of Cosmology

16:30 Marta Boni : Concluding Remarks

17:00 PM Cocktail

June 7

VIEWERS AND FANS AS WORLD-BUILDERS

10:00 Jean-Marc Leveratto : Questions de méthode. Le sociologue face
à l’industrie culturelle et à ses métamorphoses contemporaines

10:45 Jim Collins : Transmediaphilia and the Pleasures of the Personal
Digital Archive

11:30 Coffee break

11:45 Constance Penley : World-building and Gendered Fan Practices

12:30 Lunch break

REMEDIATION, INTERTEXTUALITY, TRANSMEDIA, MEDIA MIX

14:00 Matt Hills : How did the ‘Whoniverse’ Begin? Hyperdiegesis and
Trans-transmedia

14:45 Break

15:00 Alexander Zahlten : Worldtime, Lifetime, Bodytime.
Interrogating Models of World Building

15:45 Dru Jeffries : Of Superheroes and Celluloid : Allegory, Truth, and
Technology in the Dark Knight Trilogy

16:30 Marc Steinberg : Concluding Remarks

If you are in Montreal: an exhibition at the Cinémathèque, admission is free.

http://cinematheque.qc.ca/en/secrets-et-illusions-la-magie-des-effets-speciaux

Secrets et illusions - La magie des effets spéciaux | La Cinémathèque québécoise Dès sa première présentation publique, le Cinématographe, puis le cinéma, a été associé à la notion de spectaculaire. [1] Tout au long de son histoire, il a déployé une multitude de mécanismes et de techniques afin d’émerveiller son public.

Good news: we just obtained a grant from the SSHRC Connection Program for the conference. Everything is set for a great event!

Please check out the list of our amazing speakers:

Jim Collins (Notre Dame), Florence Goyet (Université de Grenoble), Dru Jeffries (Concordia), Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University), Jean-Marc Leveratto (Université de Lorraine), Giovanni Macchia (Western Ontario), Bernard Perron (Udem), Guglielmo Pescatore (Bologna), Constance Penley (UCSB), Marie-Laure Ryan (independent scholar), Mark J.P. Wolf (Concordia Wisconsin), Alexander Zahlten (Harvard).