NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference 2015

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NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference 2016 Graduate Students Conference
Displacement
4-5 March, 2016
Tisch School of the Arts (NYU)

Happy New Year!

The deadline has been EXTENDED for the 2016 NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference CFP. This year's very timely theme is Displacement. Proposals are now due by 15 January 2016.

We hope you will consider applying. Please share broadly with you networks!

Direct any questions to [email protected]

Full CFP here: http://displacementconference.tumblr.com/

NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference 2016 Theme: Displacement March 4-5, 2016

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who attended SHOCK VALUE this weekend! We posted some photos of the event on Twitter during the event and will be posting some here as well in the next few days.

Also wanted to share two recent articles on trigger warnings in academia:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2014/05/29/essay-faculty-members-about-why-they-will-not-use-trigger-warnings

http://www.filmquarterly.org/2014/09/thinking-about-triggers-thumbs-s*x-and-death/

Thinking about Triggers, Thumbs, S*x, and Death « Film Quarterly Part I. In This Issue At times it can seem that cinema, at least its American variant, inhabits a prolonged adolescence in which images of s*x are at once omnipresent and puerile, in a “can’t look too close but can’t look away” manner. But why? Why should s*x be any harder to credit in movies than m…

Only a few hours away from the big event, we would like to encourage you to use the hashtag to tweet about the conference. Also, follow us on our Twitter account, , to find out more about it. We hope to see you all there very soon!

In a serendipitous turn of events, the Film Society of Lincoln Center will be playing SHOCK VALUE: THE MOVIE at 7:30 on Saturday night...just after our conference ends.

"For this unique feature-length compilation, archivist Dino Everett has assembled the student-film work of Dan O’Bannon, John Carpenter, and others who helped redefine the horror genre in the ’70s, to demonstrate that USC was a hotbed of genre filmmaking. Featuring recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by O’Bannon, Carpenter, and classmates Terence Winkless (co-writer of The Howling), Alec Lorimore (an Oscar-nominated documentary producer), and Charles Adair (co-writer of Bleeders). The highlight is Winkless and Lorimore’s 1971 15-minute short Judson’s Release (aka Foster’s Release), starring O’Bannon as a killer, which became the blueprint for Halloween."

More details here...

http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/shock-value-the-movie

Are you ready? Less than two days until the NYU Cinema Studies Student "Shock" Conference. Free and open to the public! Full conference details here: www.nyushock15.tumblr.com.

Less than two full weeks until the conference!

Attendees—be on the look out for a final program and presentation tech and A/V details later this week. Email us at nyushock15(at)gmail(dot)com.

New York-based friends—please spread the word.

More to come....We leave you with some Buñuel.

Our preliminary conference schedule is up!
http://nyushock15.tumblr.com/

NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference 2015 Shock Value: Experience, Affect, & the Moving Image

Don't scream! There's still time to submit your proposals tonight!

Captain Renault is "shocked, SHOCKED!" that you haven't submitted your proposals yet.
But don't worry, there's still time. Write us at nyushock15(at)gmail(dot)com by December 22.

5 more days for submissions. Please keep 'em coming!