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• 01 aoû 2016

  Nancy

  Call for papers - Representation

  Is a history of the gaze possible? Cinema at the heart of visual culture

  Le cinéma au cœur de la « culture visuelle »

  Visual Culture Studies recently gained substantial academic credit, especially beyond French borders. This ascent comes with epistemological problems, since older theoretical approaches and sciences already deal with visual culture – at least, history of art, history of audiences, iconology, Media and Cultural Studies, aesthetics, anthropology... Conceptual tools and case studies may eventually help building a unified history of the gaze, but this would take a gigantic interdisciplinary work, not to mention the question of the incommensurability between paradigms. Due to the size of the considered field, our Nancy symposium will mainly focus on those changes of the gaze which may have been caused by cinema, or emerged between the end of the nineteenth century and now.

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• 01 avr 2016

  Nancy

  Call for papers - Representation

  Winter is coming

  From Jack London to George R.R. Martin

  Nous le savons toutes et tous depuis le récent succès de la série basée sur les romans de George R. R. Martin : l’hiver arrive. La nouvelle ne date cependant pas d’hier : le 22 novembre 1916, quand s’éteint Jack London, l’auteur américain nous cède en héritage, notamment à travers ses Récits du Klondike, un imaginaire des glaces et du froid, du grand « silence blanc ».

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