Sunday, August 28, 2011

USA Africa Dialogue Series - CFP: African Regional Movies

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE THEORIZATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF AFRICAN REGIONAL MOVIES

African movies across its regions have grown to the extent that there is need to critically do their in-depth studies with the purpose of generating theories on their packaging, analysis and proper classification into genres. In view of the above, abstracts are invited from   academics, media industry professionals, movie producers, distributors, government agencies, policymakers, movie regulators, agencies, donors, civil society organisations, independent consultants,  research groups and students, on any aspects of the under listed sub-themes. Such abstracts which should not exceed 200 words should be based on the analysis of select movies that fall within the sub-themes. Abstracts are to be sent to our E-mail address:  moviescholars@gmail.com on or before September 20th 2011, while full paper must reach us before September 30th, 2011.
Trends in movie Theories, Existing Literary Theories and the need or not, for distinct African movie theories, Generating theories on African movies, Emergent genres in African movies, Movies and the relevance of African-specific genres, Classifying African urban and rural movies, Gender and social issues in African movies, need for classical genrization, War and crime movies and proper classification, Travel movies and issues of depiction, African movies and the global media culture, Representation of economic, social  and political issues in African movies, Africans' contributions to the Theories of Gaze, Sociology and Psychology of African movies e.t.c.
Proposals should include abstract title, author's name, address, telephone number, email address, and institutional affiliation.
Venue: College of Humanities and Culture, Osun State University, Ikire Campus, Ikire Osun State; Nigeria. Osun State University operates collegiate system of six campuses. Ikire Campus is one of the six campuses. Ikire Campus is about 15 km to Ibadan and about 45 km to Ile-ife the home of Obafemi  Awolowo University. The University Campus is along the road to Ibadan from Ile-Ife.
Enquiries:
For more details, please visit the website:  www.moviescholars.org OR contact any of the following:
*Kayode Animasaun, PhD: Osun State University, Ikire Campus, Ikire. Chairman LOC:
+2348073787551,               drkayanimasaun@gmail.Com    


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Toyin Falola
Department of History
The University of Texas at Austin
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