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B for BAD cinema: aesthetics, politics and cultural value<BR>
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Inaugural Centre for Film and Television Studies Conference, Monash University, Melbourne, April 15–17, 2009<BR>
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Over the past decade, paracinema – a movement that has grown up around sleazy, excessive, or poorly executed B-movies – has seen a counter-cultural valorisation of all forms of cinematic trash or ‘badfilm.’ In many internet and print sources devoted to the celebration of paracinema, the term B-movie has (in contrast to its earlier studio-era sense) come to mean almost anything: disreputable and unworthy movies, low-budget exploitation movies, straight to TV or video movies, and even big-budget studio movies. B for BAD cinema seeks to negotiate some of the (aesthetic and moral) values and judgments inscribed in a B-movie culture in which films are deemed to be good-because-bad or bad-because-good. B for BAD cinema invites international film scholars, critics and filmmakers to present their thoughts on badfilm, with a particular focus on the following themes:<BR>
1. Cultural value and theory<BR>
2. Bad feeling and affect<BR>
3. Aesthetic value and bad art<BR>
4. Cultural morals and politics<BR>
5. Bad film theory and criticism<BR>
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Plenary speakers include:<BR>
Elisabeth Bronfen<BR>
J. Hoberman<BR>
Angela Ndalianis<BR>
Adrian Martin<BR>
Ernest Mathijs<BR>
Murray Pomerance<BR>
Jeffrey Sconce<BR>
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The Conference Conveners will accept proposals for individual papers or three-speaker panel sessions until November 14 2008.<BR>
Abstracts of no more than 250-words and a 100-word biography should be sent to Con Verevis: Con.Verevis@arts.monash.edu.au<BR>
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<A HREF="http://arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/news-and-events/2009/bad-cinema.php">http://arts.monash.edu.au/film-tv/news-and-events/2009/bad-cinema.php</A><BR>
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Dr Amanda Third<BR>
Senior Lecturer/Director of the Centre for Everyday Life<BR>
Murdoch University<BR>
Western Australia<BR>
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ph: +61 8 9360 7469 (w) +61 420 36 47 58 (m)<BR>
email: a.third@murdoch.edu.au<BR>
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