• Public outreach and promotion of the Archive's collection among researchers, scholars, and students
• Staffing the Access Center (managing the appointments calendar, monitoring viewing sessions with users, paging and / or prepping needed materials for viewing sessions)
• Assisting users with licensing of materials within the collection
• Coordinating loan requests with prospective borrowers
• Working with staff members of both the Academy Film Archive and Margaret Herrick Library to formulate and update the Academy's access policies

REQUIRED - Bachelor's Degree. Experience with computer databases and capacity for learning new database. Knowledge of film history and film and videotape elements. Ability to lift film elements weighing up to thirty pounds. Excellent writing ability, with special emphasis on creating clear and well-organized policy documents. Attention to detail. Strong communication skills and desire to interact with wide-range of users . Experience dealing with the public and a clear ability to deal with people gracefully and professionally.

PREFERRED - Post-graduate degree in Library Sciences or Moving Image Archival studies. Familiarity with FileMaker Pro, MAVIS, and / or other equivalent museum or archival databases and cataloging standards.

The Academy is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Send resume and cover letter no later than May 12, 2006 to: Michael Pogorzelski
Academy Film Archive
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study
1313 North Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028

Candidates may fax to (310) 247-3032 or email to mpogo@oscars.org

Smithsonian Institution and Showtime
The recent agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and a commercial company Showtime, to limit public access to the Smithsonian collections, which has worried independent film makers, has upset Congress as well. Since Congress has a lot more clout than film makers, the Smithsonian has had its budget slashed. There is an update on the story in the Washington Post on Friday, May 5 2006.

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco
We have a position open for a video and audio preservation manager at the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) in San Francisco. We are a 30 year old media arts nonprofit who's mission is to educate, support media makers, tell stories and preserve media. Please visit us at www.bavc.org for more information.

Our preservation department has really taken off in the past 6 months, but we need someone to take us to the next level based on our recent successes.

Our Media Preservation Manager will have technical expertise with the audio/video preservation process, transfers, formats, storage etc. The manager must have prior project and people management experience, ideally in the world of preservation. The manager will also be responsible for developing new clients, make cold calls to museums, universities etc to market and sell our services. Be able to travel to conferences and panels. Lastly, the manager will help make decisions about services, equipment, budget and finances.

BAVC has a creative and casual culture full of mission driven staff. Our nonprofit is conveniently located in the Mission district. We have wonderful benefits, including a 35 hour work week and a dog friendly office.

Please email a resume and a cover letter: hr@bavc.org. Please share this job with people you think would be appropriate. The position will start the first week of June.

SEAPAVAA — SOUTH EAST ASIA PACIFIC AUDIO VISUAL ARCHIVE ASSOCIATION
10th Anniversary Conference - 13 to 17 November 2006 Canberra, Australia
Hosted jointly by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and the New Zealand Film Archive
Theme: THE VISIBLE ARCHIVE: ACCESS, ADVOCACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Conference Call for Papers
This is a special year for SEAPAVAA. It will be reviewing the achievements of its first decade and setting a vision for its second. So the theme deals with the fundamentals of creating and running successful archives, whatever the circumstances. SEAPAVAA's action agenda is focused on the South East Asia/Pacific region. But the issues raised by the theme are universal. Participants from all over the world, and from the collecting/archiving field generally, are warmly welcomed. (Registration details will be advertised later.) Archives are society's memory. Successful archives are accessible and accountable in the fullest sense: they have dynamic relationships with their communities and constituencies. Nor should they just be passive recipients of collections and inadequate funding: they are agents of change, claiming their legitimate place in society, advocating standards and principles, and influencing perceptions. The symposium will explore the formulas for success, the pitfalls, the experiences, and ideas for the future. We invite submissions of proposals for papers for papers on the symposium theme. As a guide, the following sub-themes are being developed:
Access: How should archives reach out to their communities? How do we give collection access with integrity in the digital age? What products should an archive produce and market? How do archives develop an outgoing corporate culture?
Accountability and supporters: To whom are archives accountable? What is the place of "friends" organisations and "lobby" groups? How are sponsors gained, managed and kept? How should archives communicate with their constituencies? What legislation is needed to support and protecting archives - and how is it achieved?
Advocacy and publicity: What is advocacy? How should professional associations (like SEAPAVAA) engage in it? How can archives persuade and influence? How do you deal with politicians and regislators? How do you use the media to advance your work? How should archives position and project their identity and brand?

These topics are given as a guide only! Proposals should be sent to Conference Organising Committee co-chair, Mick Newnham (mick.newnham@nfsa.afc.gov.au) by 30 June We will aim to advise acceptance by the end of July.

Conference Organising Committee:
Jamie Lean, NZFA (co-chair)
Mick Newnham, NFSA (co-chair)
Jane Adam, National Archives of Australia Dianne Hosking, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
Andy Hayllar, Friends of the NFSA
Ray Edmondson, Archive Associates

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY LIBRARIES
POSITION: DIRECTOR, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY
Job # SL512127 AVAILABLE: July 1, 2006

DESCRIPTION AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The University of Kentucky seeks a librarian to administer the Special Collections Library (SCL) within the Special Collections and Digital Programs Division (SCDP) [http://www.uky/edu/Libraries/SCDP/]. Reports to the Associate Dean for Special Collections and Digital Programs and serves on the SCDP management group. Supervises one librarian, three staff plus student assistants. Manages the SCL Breckinridge Research Room and coordinates all SCDP reference. Administratively responsible for SCL budget, collection development, collection maintenance, outreach, and the King Library Press (http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/KLP/). Responsible for seeking grants and development opportunities for SCL. Serves as SCDP liaison to the UK Libraries Research and Education Division and to the Collections and Technical Services Division.

QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED): Graduate degree in library science from an ALA-accredited program. Demonstrated commitment to quality reference service and substantive public service and supervisory experience. Effective written and oral communication skills. Demonstrable computer and information technology skills. Strong management skills. Ability to interact positively and productively in a collegial academic environment with library colleagues and library users. Commitment to ongoing professional development and activity and evidence of the ability to meet University of Kentucky requirements for promotion and tenure.

QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRED): Minimum three years professional academic library experience. Academic specialization/advanced degree in history, English, or other humanities discipline. Experience working with special collections materials.

SALARY and BENEFITS: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience. Tenure track, 12-month appointment, 22 days annual leave, TIAA/CREF, Fidelity, and Twentieth Century Annuity plans. Additional benefits information.

LIBRARY: Located in the beautiful bluegrass region of central Kentucky, the University of Kentucky Libraries system includes the main William T. Young Library, Medical Center Library, Law Library, Special Collections and Digital Programs, Agricultural Information Center, Little Fine Arts Library, Education Library, Engineering Library and five science libraries. Combined holdings total more than 3 million volumes. The system has a staff of 80 librarians and 109 support staff and serves a student body of 28,000. The UK Libraries use the Voyager integrated library system. Library membership includes ARL, SOLINET, ASERL, and the Center for Research Libraries, and is a regional depository for government publications.

TO APPLY FOR JOB #SL512127: Submit a UK Online Application at UK Jobs. For questions, contact HR/Employment, phone (859) 257-9555, press 2, or email ukjobs@email.uky.edu.

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: May 31, 2006 but may be extended if necessary.

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The Institut National d'Audiovisual (French National Audio-Visual Institute) now provides on-line access to many of its radio and television programs. www.ina.fr. The service proved so popular that the first day it opened it crashed. An English (and Chinese language version is also up and running.

THE WORKING LIFE: The 7th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, July 20-22, 2006
Northeast Historic Film, 85 Main Street, Bucksport, Maine

Northeast Historic Film hosts an international symposium dedicated to the topic of work and amateur film in July at the archives and study center in Bucksport. The symposium is open to anyone interested in the relationship between the moving image and representations of work. Students, teachers, researchers, museum, library and archives professionals, programmers, amateur film and video creators, and labor and union specialists may find the symposium of particular interest. Presentations will include "Changing Images of the Fishing Industry in Scotland," presented by Ryan Shand from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. Filmmakers and scholars from New England and will give screenings and engage in discussion. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Jennifer Abbott, filmmaker and co-director of The Corporation, a documentary on the character and "personality" of corporate entities.

An abbreviated schedule follows. For a complete schedule and registration please go to http://www.oldfilm.org/nhfWeb/ed/06Symp/Symposium2006.htm

Thursday July 20, 2006
7:00 PM Cast and Crew as Family, Family as Cast and Crew: Henry Koster's Home Movies, presented by Melissa Dollman, Moving Image Archive Studies, UCLA

7:30 PM An Interview with Simone Weil, presented by the filmmaker Julia Haslett, Line Street Productions, New York, NY

Friday July 21, 2006
9:30-10:30 AM The Corporate Video: Its Purpose and Meaning, presented by Sian Evans, filmmaker, Maine and New York City

10:45-11:45 AM Keynote address, Jennifer Abbott, filmmaker and co-director
of The Corporation, British Columbia

1:15-2:15 PM With These Hands: The ILGWU, Film, and Labor History in the Cold War presented by Nathan Godfried, Department of History, University of Maine.

2:15-3:15 PM Behind the Scenes with Women Factory Workers, presented by Patricia Raub and Robert Goff, American Studies, Providence College

3:30-4:00 PM What a Little Movie Can Do: The Events Surrounding the Making of A Day at the Factory, presented by Bob Brodsky, filmmaker and 8mm filmmaster, Rowley, MA

4:00-4:30 PM The Abbakadabba Coopno: A Real Life Drama of Christian Farm Work, presented by Robbins Barstow, filmmaker and retired educator, Wethersfield, Connecticut

6:30-10 SCREENING: The Corporation, introduction and Q and A with filmmaker Jennifer Abbott

Saturday July 22, 2006
9:00-10:00 AM The Transport Workers Union and its Early Use of Television as a Tool for Persuasion, presented by Erika Gottfried, Robert Wagner Labor Archives/Tamiment Library, New York University

10:00-10:30 AM The Negotiation of White Working Class Identity and Film Going (1895-1914) presented by Cara Caddoo, Integrated Media Arts, City University of New York

10:45-11:45 AM The Cry of the Children and the 1912 American Woolen Strike, Lawrence, Massachusetts, presented by Ardis Cameron, American and New England Studies, University of Southern Maine

1:00-2:00 PM Amateur Cinema and the Re-making of a 'Local' Heritage: Changing Images of the Fishing Industry in Scotland, presented by Ryan Shand, Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of Glasgow, Scotland

2:00-3:00 PM The Blackhill Campaign and the British Documentary Tradition, presented by Leo Enticknap, Northern Region Film & Television Archive, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, UK

3:15-4:15 PM Free Farm Movies in the 1920s-1930s: International Harvester, the American Farm Bureau and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, presented by Greg Waller, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University

4:15-4:45 PM The Nature of Work and the Construction of Race in the Rural South, presented by Ruta Abolins, Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia

www.oldfilm.org

Smithsonian Agreement Angers Filmmakers
By EDWARD WYATT
The New York Times - April 1, 2006

Some of the biggest names in documentary filmmaking have denounced a recent agreement between the Smithsonian Institution and Showtime Networks Inc. that they say restricts makers of films and television shows using Smithsonian materials from offering their work to public television or other non-Showtime broadcast outlets.

Ken Burns, whose documentaries "The Civil War" and "Baseball" have become classics of the form, said in an interview yesterday that he believed that such an arrangement would have prohibited him from making some of his recent works, like the musical history "Jazz," available to public television because they relied heavily on Smithsonian collections and curators.

"I find this deal terrifying," Mr. Burns said in a telephone interview from San Francisco, where he is filming interviews for a documentary on the history of the national parks. "It feels like the Smithsonian has essentially optioned America's attic to one company, and to have access to that attic, we would have to be signed off with, and perhaps co-opted by, that entity."

Read the full article at the New York Times site (requires free registration).

James Taylor, of the British Universities Film and Video Council writes:
Newsfilm Online is a resources to be offered to Higher and Further Education in the UK. 3,000 hours of television news and cinema newsreels, taken from the collection of the ITN/Reuters archive, is being made available online in high quality format for teaching, learning and research.
Newsfilm Online has now launched a demonstrator website at:
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline

This 'demonstrator' web site is making some fifty news clips (approximately one hour of material) freely available for downloading to all users. These clips are arranged by theme and decade, and we welcome your comments on any of these. We hope to add more clips to the site in due course. The main delivery of 3,000 hours will be in February 2007.

Comments and feedback on the resource and how it should develop, should be addressed to
James Taylor
Education/Outreach Officer
Newsfilm Online
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/newsfilmonline
Email: james@bufvc.ac.uk
Phone: 020 7430 4580
Address: 200 Grays Inn Road
London
WC1X 8XZ

University of Newcastle
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship Newsreel Memories: audiences, consumption and cultural identity in 1940s and 1950s Tyneside working with Sarah Leahy and Deborah Chambers in collaboration with the Tyneside Cinema. An opportunity for a student of film studies/cultural history to investigate audience use of newsreels in Tyneside in the 1940s and 1950s. A particular focus will be how primary research including oral history work can inform a theoretical interrogation of audience studies and spectatorship.

For further details and information on how to apply please visit: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/postgrad/funding/studentship_AHRC2006.htm or contact Alison.Pattison@ncl.ac.uk

...though I have to say that this looks bizarre to me. Neither Leahy nor Chambers have published any work on newsfilm that I'm aware of, and the Newcastle department certainly doesn't have any substantive track record of research in this area. My guess would be that they're primarily interested in the reception studies/spectatorship issues ('theoretical' being the key word) and that empirical scholarship around newsfilm itself is not high on their agenda.

Leo
Dr. Leo Enticknap
Curator, Northern Region Film & Television Archive & Senior Lecturer in Media Studies
School of Arts and Media
University of Teesside
Middlesbrough
TS1 3BA
Tel. +44 (0)1642 384049
Fax +44 (0)8719 002602
www.nrfta.org.uk
www.tees.ac.uk
http://home.fairadsl.co.uk/ldge

The April issue of Kinokultura (#12) is now available on line
www.kinokultura.com
This issue features festival reports and articles based on a roundtable at AAASS in 2005, as well as film reviews. This issue's video has been awarded two top awards at recent festivals!

Contents:
Bauyrzhan Nogerbek: "The Eurasia-2005 Film Festival: Ambitions and Realities" Vladimir Padunov: Storing and Restoring History: Gosfil'mofond and the 10th Belye Stolby Archival Film Festival Thomas Campbell: Five Theses About Timur Bekmambetov's Day Watch

Russian TV-Serials: AAASS Roundtable 2005: "Russian TV: Past Issues of Present Concern" Birgit Beumers: "The Serialization of the War" David MacFadyen: "The Significance of Brezhnev for Russian TV Drama Today" Alexander Prokhorov: "Size Matters: The Ideological Functions of the Length of Soviet Feature Films and Television Mini-Series in the 1950s and 1960s"

Film Reviews: Tony Anemone on Aleksei German Jr.'s Garpastum Anindita Banerjee on Pavel Ruminov's Silent Man Eva Binder on Aleksandr Strizhanov's 180 and Taller Stephen Hutchings on Valerii Akhadov's Greenhouse Effect David MacFadyen on Zul'fikar Musakov's Boys in the Sky 2 Natalya Rulyova on Elena Nikolaeva's Pops Dawn Seckler on Fedor Bondarchuk's Company 9 Christina Stojanova on Oleg Stepchenko's Velvet Revolution Denise Youngblood on Aleksei Karelin's A Time to Gather Stones

Video: Anastasiia Zhuravleva: Caution, the Doors Are Opening!

Dina Iordanova a member of our association, will be hosting a conference at St. Andrews, Scotland, In June. Here are the details:
CINEMA AT THE PERIPHERY
An International Film Studies Conference
15 to 17 June 2006 - St Andrews, Scotland
EXPLORING PERIPHERAL CINEMAS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Speakers
Dudley Andrew, Yale University, John Caughie, University of Glasgow, Pam Cook, University of Southampton, Mark Cousins, Independent Film Critic & Historian Claire Denis, Independent Filmmaker, Paris Kristian Feigelson, Sorbonne Nouvelle Faye Ginsburg, New York University Mette Hjort, Lingnan University Sheldon Lu, University of California-Davis Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University Bill Marshall, University of Glasgow Hamid Naficy, Rice University Lucia Nagib, Leeds University Duncan Petrie, University of Auckland Patricia Pisters, University of Amsterdam Rod Stoneman, Huston School of Film & Digital Media Mohamad Soueid, Independent Filmmaker, Beirut

Hosted by: CENTRE FOR FILM STUDIES, UNVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/filmstudies/events/conferences/main

From Iceland to Iran, from Singapore to Scotland, there is currently a growing intellectual and cultural wave of production addressing the notion of the 'periphery'. In Film Studies, this wave is called many things: accented cinema, transnational cinema and minor cinema being just some of the terms used to conceptualise cinema beyond the boundaries of the nation-state. In recent years, international cinema has also produced a large body of work that foregrounds questions of transnationality, place, space, passage and migration. There is a resolute move towards exploring faraway places, in interacting with barely known peoples, and in making new localities imaginable. In these films, previously entrenched spatial divisions gradually dissolve, as 'center' and 'periphery' no longer figure as firmly fixed grid coordinates. The hierarchical position of the 'centre' is variously subverted and changed in films that come from a variety of locations traditionally interpreted as peripheral.

Exploring peripheral cinemas from around the globe, Cinema at the Periphery focuses on the following three key areas:

The functioning of various peripheral film industries, and the strategies they adopt to compete in a global market dominated by established filmmaking centres.

The distinctive narratives that emerge from peripheral cinemas, often focusing on disputed or border territories, or characters in "foreign" locations.

The new, often transnational identities that are created in films produced at the periphery.

The conference will be supplemented by a number of book launches, screenings, and Q&A sessions with directors like French Claire Denis and Lebanese Mohamad Soueid.

A 20% discount on the conference fee will be given to those who also register for the Screen conference, 30 June -2 July 2006.

Russian Film Symposium 2006
White Russian--Black Russian: Race and Ethnicity in Russian Cinema
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu
What is race? What is ethnicity? How was that line drawn differently under the 74 years of socialism and what are its consequences for present-day Russia? The impulse for this year's symposium, White Russian--Black Russian:

Race and Ethnicity in Russian Cinema, is the explosion of racial and ethnic conflict in the Russian Federation since the Soviet collapse in 1991. Western media have so far concentrated on three aspects of this violence: the second Chechen war in the Caucasus; skinhead attacks on foreign tourists in St. Petersburg; and the growth of anti-Semitism, especially in Moscow. The violence, however, is much more extensive and pervasive, extending to the murders of foreign students from South America in Voronezh and Rostov; the arson in the Moscow dormitory for African students; the constant document checks of swarthy people conducted by the police in all Russian cities; the campaign by the mass media in Russia (now firmly back under state control) to characterize all Chechens as terrorists, etc.

As much as the first post-Soviet decade can be characterized as a war by organized crime against emerging civil society, this second decade is marked by the state's (both open and concealed) war against ethnic and racial minorities.

Not surprisingly, these conflicts have dominated Russian cultural production as well. Earlier symposia, such as Arrogance & Envy (2003), examined narrative and visual conflict in the cinematic strategies of Russo-Soviet cultural producers (from Stalin's era through Putin's), vilifying Americans as the enemy, as the other-out-there. This practice, however, was always accompanied by the vilification of the other-in-here, although the identity of this internal other shifted at historical moments: nobility and bourgeoisie (under Lenin); kulaks, NEP-men, saboteurs, enemies of the people, and suspect ethnic minorities (under Stalin); closet Stalinists, usually Georgians (under Khrushchev); Chechens (under Yeltsin and Putin).

With the exception of the conditions of the Civil War (1918-21), the other-in-here has been marked as non-Russian--whether the non-Russian who is nationalist (Ukrainian, Transcaucasian, Balt, Central Asian, etc.) or the non-Russian who is biologically inferior (Gypsies, Ingush, Chukcha, Dagestanis, Kalmyks, Chechens, etc.). Indeed, many of these groups are often referred to casually as chernye zhopy in Russian everyday speech, an obscene term best translated into Victorian English as black behinds, analogous to the infamous n-word in English.

White Russian--Black Russian: Race and Ethnicity in Russian Cinema examines this phenomenon in two fora: public screenings at the Melwood Screening Room of Pittsburgh Filmmakers, accompanied by brief introductions and public discussion; and a scholarly component at the University of Pittsburgh, consisting of research presentations, screenings, and debate. This year's films will provide a survey of representational strategies in depicting ethnic and racial minorities in Soviet and Russian cinema, from the silent era--Vsevolod Pudovkin's Heir of Ghengis Khan (1928) and Aleksandr Zarkhi's and Iosif Kheifits' My Motherland (1933)--through the Stalinist years--Mikhail Dubson's The Border (1935), Grigorii Aleksandrov's Circus (1936), and Vladimir Korsh-Sablin's Seekers of Happiness (1936)--the Stagnation era and perestroika--Edmond Keosaian's The Elusive Avengers (1966), Emil Lotianu's The Gypsy Camp Rolls into the Sky (1976), Aleksandr Mitta's The Tale of How Tsar Peter Married off his Negro (1976), Aleksandr Askol'dov's Commissar (1967; released 1987), Nikita Mikhalkov's Close to Eden (1991)--to the present Aleksei Balabanov's Dead Man's Bluff (2005), Pavel Lungin's roots (2005), and Larisa Sadilova's Needing a Nanny (2005).

The Russian Film Symposium is supported by the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, and the A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
Russian Film Symposium
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu

OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE VAULTS SYMPOSIUM
Monday, April 10; 1-5 p.m.
Royce Hall, Room 314

A quick reminder that the "Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults" half-day symposium on LGBT Moving Images is coming up next Monday. The event is co-sponsored by the AMIA LGBT Interest Group, along with Outfest and the UCLA Film and Television Archive's Research Center.

Date: Monday, April 10
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Where: UCLA campus, Royce Hall, room 314
Cost: Free

There will be panels on preservation, access, and the Outfest study collection at UCLA, plus a poster session. See below for details. The evening of April 9 at 7:00 p.m. there will be a screening of two LGBT films at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in Melnitz Hall.

Symposium and Screening Details:
OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE VAULTS SYMPOSIUM Monday, April 10; 1-5 p.m.
Royce Hall, Room 314

PANEL: "Insuring the Survival of LGBT Cinema: Preservation Challenges and Strategies"
1:15-2:30 p.m.
What happens to independent LGBT films after they complete their festival circuit runs? The long-term preservation of many LGBT independent films may be endangered by a perceived lack of commercial value by industry and/or by the filmmakers' lack of resources to fund long-term conservation of their works. A panel of filmmakers and archivists will discuss these challenges and potential strategies to insure LGBT cinema is preserved for future generations.

Panel participants include:
- Robert Rosen, dean, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
- Arthur Dong, Academy Award-nominated director
- Jenni Olson, filmmaker and LGBT film historian
- Jim Hubbard, filmmaker and programmer
- Ross Lipman, filmmaker, film preservationist, UCLA Film & Television Archive
- Silas Howard, filmmaker and UCLA graduate student.

BREAK AND POSTER SESSION: 2:30 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
PANEL: "Access Challenges: Public Resources for LGBT Moving Image Research" 2:50-4:20 p.m.
The availability of access will be discussed in relation to the scarcity of archival resources for LGBT cinema. The Association of Moving Image Archivists LGBT Interest Group's work on the creation of a union holding catalog will be examined, as well as the preservation status of significant LGBT films. Research strategies for publicly available resources will be offered.

Panel participants include:
- Lynne Kirste, chair, Association of Moving Image Archivists LGBT Interest Group
- Joseph Hawkins, president, board of directors, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives
- Alexandra Juhasz, professor of media studies, Pitzer College
- Orly Ravid, director of acquisitions and theatrical distribution, Wolfe Video Distribution.
- Yvonne Welbon, filmmaker and LGBT moving image scholar

PANEL: "The Outfest Legacy Collection at UCLA" 4:20-5 p.m.
The establishment of the Legacy Collection offers new opportunities for the long-term preservation and study of LGBT cinema. Ongoing goals and concerns of the collection will be discussed as well as procedures for accessing the collection for research purposes. Speakers include:
- Kirsten Schaffer, senior director, Outfest
- David Pendleton, programmer, UCLA Film & Television Archive
- Mark Quigley, coordinator, Archive Research and Study Center
- Erica Cho, program associate, Outfest Legacy Project
- Todd Weiner, motion picture archivist, UCLA Film & Television Archive
- May Haduong, graduate student, UCLA Moving Image Archive Studies.

OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE VAULTS FILM SCREENING
Sunday, April 9; 7 p.m.
James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall

As a kick-off to the April 10 symposium, the UCLA Film & Television Archive and Outfest will screen two films from the Legacy Collection: - SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE BATHS (1975, David Buckley), a very early gay feature, presents a fascinating portrait of gay New York City circa 1974, with extensive location footage and real-life characters including Continental Baths owner Steve Ostrow and many of the drag queens who performed there.
- QUEENS AT HEART (1965) is a short which provides a rare and surprisingly poignant glimpse into pre-Stonewall transsexual life, as four NYC transwomen are interviewed for a six-month psychological project.

In person: actor Don Scotti and Jenni Olson, LGBT film archivist and historian

The "Out of the Closet, Into the Vaults" symposium is sponsored by: Outfest, the UCLA Film & Television Archive's Research and Study Center, and the Association of Moving Image Archivists LGBT Interest Group. The symposium is funded with a grant from the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships.

CALL FOR PAPERS - American Movie Masculinity

Essays of 3,000-7,000 words are sought for a book on the representation of men and masculinity in U.S. cinema. Topics may include sexual practice and politics, star texts, personal and familial relationships, masculine auteurs, genres for/about men, gender theory, pornography, connections between race/class and masculinity, historical changes in male roles, etc.

Please submit a proposal that describes your essay in less than 1,000 words, as well as the bibliography and filmography you will utilize. Also include your current CV. Deadline for proposals is Oct. 1, 2006. Completed essays will be due on January 15, 2007. Publication of the book will be pursued with a major university press.

Please send proposals to editor
Timothy Shary
Screen Studies Program
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610
or by email to tshary@clarku.edu

Temporary Position: HBO - West Coast Archiving and Asset Management Group

Description: To begin in April, an approximately six-month temporary assignment with benefits to provide coverage for the staff archives manager on leave.

Division / Unit: East Coast Production / Post Delivery, Planning, & Operations

Location: HBO - Los Angeles Office

Unit Overview and Primary Position Responsibilities:
The Post Delivery, Planning, & Operations unit is the only HBO work group charged with the long-term preservation of our program assets. It supports all production units, especially the Series Group, by storing editorial materials. The primary responsibilities of the position will require the select candidate to:

- Assist the asset coordinator with all aspects of daily operations of the extensive, varied, and active HBO Materials Archive;

- Provide seamless continuity and follow up support with projects and objectives already begun by the archives manager. These projects may include but are not limited to researching and verifying elements relating to certain HBO titles by processing incoming elements.

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate must be detail-oriented, with strong organizational skills, and possess high-level computer skills, database entry experience, and knowledge of FileMaker Pro, and Microsoft Office applications. The candidate should have a working knowledge of film, tape and audio elements as well as some film, audio, or video editing experience (experience comparable to an assistant film or video editor is preferred). A minimum of two years experience with related activities, a general knowledge of post- production, and an associate or bachelor's degree are all preferred but not required.

Day-to-Day Duties:
- Respond to and service the archival needs of all HBO Production units, Exploitation units, and Network Quality Control Re-mastering projects for original and acquired programming by researching, locating, retrieving, and storing HBO elements.
- Process movement requests for elements in timely manner.
- Update archival databases, and create documentation, reports, and charts for preservation projects.
- Process incoming elements and create new records.
- Maintain the department's filing system.

Qualified candidates should direct their resumes to: bob.dussault@hbo.com

Job Announcement: University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong is at the international forefront of higher learning and research, with more than 100 teaching departments and sub-divisions of studies, and more than 60 research institutes and centres. It has over 20,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from 48 countries. English is the medium of instruction.

The University is committed to international standards for excellence in scholarship and research. Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature Applications are invited for appointment as Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature with a specialty in cultural studies, tenable from September 2006 or as soon as possible thereafter. The appointment will initially be made on a three-year fixed-term basis, renewable after review. The Department of Comparative Literature enjoys a reputation as a leader in literary, theoretical, and cultural studies using cross-cultural materials and interdisciplinary approaches.

Main areas of research and teaching in the department include visual cultures and film studies, literature, critical theory, feminism and gender studies, postcolonial, Hong Kong, and China studies, and new media and global studies. The Department offers B.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree programmes, and it has excellent teaching and research facilities and support. The Department has received substantial amount of competitive funding for research projects from the University and the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Information about the Department can be obtained at http://www.hku.hk/complit.

Applicants should possess a Ph.D. degree in cultural studies or a related field. Applicants should be strongly committed to teaching and research in the areas of China and inter-Asian cultural studies, literary and cultural theory, and cultural studies issues in connection with gender and sexuality. A research emphasis in cultural studies in the context of globalization and China studies would be an advantage. Applicants are requested to send at least one writing sample with their applications. A highly competitive salary commensurate with qualifications and experience will be offered. The appointment will attract a contract-end gratuity and University contribution to a retirement benefits scheme, totaling up to 15% of basic salary. The appointment carries leave, and medical/dental benefits. Housing benefits will be provided.

Further particulars and application forms can be obtained at https://extranet.hku.hk/apptunit/; by fax (2540 6735 or 2559 2058); e- mail (apptunit@hkucc.hku.hk); directly from the Appointments Unit, Room 1001, Knowles Building; or by writing to the Appointments Unit (Senior), Human Resource Section, Registry, The University of Hong Kong, enclosing a $1.40 stamped self-addressed envelope. Closes April 22, 2006.

GWACS Conference, "War Without Limits: Spain 1936-1939 and Beyond"
Dear GWACS Members and Colleagues,
The following link will take you to the programme and registration form for this year's GWACS Conference, "War Without Limits: Spain 1936-1939 and Beyond", to be held in Bristol on 17th-19th July 2006.

http://www.bris.ac.uk/arts/birtha/conferences/war_without_limits/index.html

I hope you find it of interest. Please address any queries about the conference to: Dr Martin Hurcombe, M.J.Hurcombe@bristol.ac.uk, or Professor Debra Kelly, kellyd@westminster.ac.uk

If you would like a printed copy of the programme or application form, please let me know.

Helena Scott
EHCS Research Support
Room 213
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages University of Westminster
309 Regent Street
London W1B 2UW

Tel. 020-7911-5000 ext. 2068
Fax 020-7911-5870

Title: REDISCOVERING POLISH CINEMA: HISTORY - IDEOLOGY - POLITICS.
Lodz, October 2006.
Deadline: 2006-04-15
Description: CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE REDISCOVERING POLISH CINEMA: HISTORY IDEOLOGY POLITICS TO BE HELD 23-25 OCTOBER 2006 IN D (POLAND) Various transformations in the social and cultural landscape have been reshaping the way Polish cinema is understood, yet still there is little clarity about it ...
Contact: konrad.klejsa@interia.pl
Announcement ID: 150133
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=150133

Film and History League Conference on Documentaries
Film & History and the Film and History League invite IAMHIST members (and others) to participate in the November 8-12, 2006 conference on "The Documentary Tradition," a conference which will emphasize the historical context and impact of major films, filmmakers, and film movements from A to Z.

Visiting Artists will be D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, makers of THE WAR ROOM (1993), the famous study of the "spin" doctors within the presidential campaign of Bill Clinton during his first run for president. Special plenary presentations will be given by Raymond Fielding (History of the Newsreel and March of Time) and Betsy McLane (documentary diva and historian).

Subject Areas are listed on the web site at www.filmandhistory.org.

The official poster is also at the web site; please print and post around campus. Proposals should be submitted to the listed Area Chairs as soon as possible. Deadline for "late" items is in July, but early proposals get more compatible panel placement.

Questions to Peter Rollins at RollnsPC@aol.com

Film Studies Librarian at Emory University in Atlanta
There is a position open for a Film Studies Librarian at Emory University in Atlanta. Details can be found here: http://web.library.emory.edu/services/hr/filmstudies.htm

Please feel free to pass this along to non-AMIA members as well.

NHPRC Threatened - President's budget provides $0 for archival grants.
The United States "National Historical and Public Records Commission" is threatened with Zero funding this coming year. Members who feel strongly may wish to write their congressmen

The Executive Budget for Fiscal Year 2007 once again requests zero dollars for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). Many of AMIA member's institutions benefit greatly from this program — the only federal program that focuses on grants to records and records repositories. We urge you to help save NHPRC and ask Congress to appropriate $20 million in FY07.

The Friends of the Georgia Archives have created a wiki (http://foga.pbwiki.com/) which explains how you can help. Although this site is primarily based on the State of Georgia, there is quite a bit of info that could be utilized regardless of where your institution is located.


European Nightmares - An International Conference on European Horror Cinema
June 1st - 2nd 2006 - Manchester Metropolitan University, MIRIAD

European Nightmares will explore the traditions of the horror film in Europe. Conceived by the Group for the Study of Images, Narratives and Cultures (www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/inc/), in collaboration with Cornerhouse, and featuring some of the leading academics in the field, European Nightmares will offer groundbreaking new perspectives on the analysis of the horror film covering areas such as:

European horror film directors such as Amenabar, Argento, Dreyer, Haneke, Ossorio and others
European horror and De Sade
European traumas and the horror film
European audiences
European horror and gender
Politics and/of the European horror film
European cinema and censorship
European folktales, myths and horror films
Hammer horror
Horror cinema from Spain, France, Italy, Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg and other countries

The organisers are delighted to announce the following plenary speakers:
Professor Mark Jancovich & Dr Peter Hutchings

Early registration deadline is: April 13th
A limited number of postgraduate bursaries will be available. To apply for postgraduate bursaries and for further information, please contact Dr Patricia Allmer, p.allmer@mmu.ac.uk.

Abstracts, registration details and further information for the European Nightmares conference are available at: http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/inc/nightmares/

CFS: John O'Conner Film Award
American Historical Association invites submissions for the 2006 John E. O'Connor Film Award
Prize Date: 2006-05-15
Date Submitted: 2006-03-01
Announcement ID: 150033
In recognition of his exceptional role as a pioneer in both teaching and research regarding film and history, the American Historical Association has established this award in honor of John E. O'Connor, New Jersey Institute of Technology. The honorific award seeks to recognize outstanding interpretations of history through the medium of film or video. The award is presented in the form of a certificate.

It is difficult to formulate a precise description of an outstanding historical film or video. Nevertheless, the following are among the essential elements:
1. STIMULATION OF THOUGHT. The production should arouse interest in its subject, encourage viewers to ask questions about historical interpretations, and interest viewers in seeking additional insights through reading.
2. IMAGINATIVE USE OF THE MEDIA. Films and videos may provide unique perspectives on the past using techniques that are different from those employed by the author of a book. The production should reflect such imaginative use of the medium.
3. EFFECTIVE PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION AND IDEAS. The production should organize and communicate information and concepts in ways that effectively educate the viewers. It should make a contribution in its own right to the public's and students' understanding of history.
4. SENSITIVITY TO MODERN SCHOLARSHIP. The film or video should reflect an understanding of new trends in research regarding the subject under study and address some of the important questions raised in this scholarship.
5. ACCURACY. The film or video should depict the past accurately. Details such as language, clothing, and furniture are less important than how a film or video presents the larger picture of life and times portrayed therein.

Entries must be postmarked by or on May 15 to be eligible for the 2006 competition. Entry guidelines are available online. Contact information for judges will be posted by about March 30.

Prize Administrator
American Historical Association
400 A Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
Email: aha@historians.org
Visit the website at www.historians.org/prizes/index.cfm?PrizeAbbrev=O%27CONNOR


EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS (27 March 2006)
Two Nations, One People? The German Cold-War Experience An International Interdisciplinary Conference to be held at the University of Liverpool from 6 to 8 September 2006.

CALL FOR PAPERS
During the Cold-War era, which lasted for nearly half a century, our world-view was shaped by the division of Europe and of the wider world into the Western and the Eastern block. The division of the German nation into two states was particularly symptomatic of this ideological and political divide. Whereas the super powers fought indirectly in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea and elsewhere, it was in Germany that Soviet and US troops faced each other directly. The Cold-War conflict could be felt in almost any sphere of life, ranging from the media, philosophy, music, sports to literature and science.

From the founding of the two German states in 1949 to the collapse of the iron curtain in 1989, numerous novels, documentaries, songs, radio plays, TV-programmes and films from both sides of the Berlin Wall dealt directly or indirectly with the conflict, and in the process they shaped our ideas and perception of the super powers and the people on the 'other side'. And, what is more, despite the political unification of Germany and the enlargement of the European Union, contemporary views are still predominantly forged along the lines of Cold-War rhetoric, stereotypes and ideas.

This conference focuses on the multi-facetted influence of the Cold War on German culture in both East and West Germany. It follows an interdisciplinary approach combining methods from various disciplines and fields. Scholars are invited to offer papers on all aspects of the topic, and papers on the following specific areas are especially welcome:

Politics, public relations and public life History Literature Media and visual arts Popular culture studies Music Sports Science and technology Business and economics Educational science Law Philosophy Linguistics

The conference will take place at the School of Modern Languages (University of Liverpool). Proposals, not exceeding 500 words, along with a brief biographical note should be sent to the School of Modern Languages (German Section) by 27 March 2006. Contributors will be informed of the provisional programme by 1 April 2006. Presentations are strictly limited to 20 minutes.

Contact details:
Andrew Plowman (afp0001@liv.ac.uk), Tobias Hochscherf (t76@liv.ac.uk), and Christoph Laucht (c.laucht@liv.ac.uk)

University of Liverpool, School of Modern Languages (German), Modern Languages Building, Chatham Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZR.

This conference falls within the Visual Cultures Research Group at the University of Liverpool, details of which can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/sml/research/researchgroups/visual/index.htm

Psychoanalytic Film Series 'The Erotic Imagination' Cambridge MA USA
Members in the Boston Area may be interested in a series of films organized by the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy:

Announcing a film series, 'The Erotic Imagination,' to be held five Fridays in March & April 2006 in Cambridge MA. This is the 15th season of the series sponsored by the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy www.bostoninsitute.org and Lesley University. The series is a public event which also provides continuing education for licensed mental health clinicians. A brief context/history talk precedes the film, then a screening, then a 20-minute clinical presentation, then a one-hour group discussion, which is always very rich. This is the largest and longest-running psychoanalytic film series in the nation. Visit www.psychologygoestothemovies.org for full information and=20 registration. The films will be:
March 10 - Cocteau's 'Beauty & the Beast'
March 17 - Almovodar's 'Talk to Her'
March 24 - 'Secretary' (2002)
March 31 - Haneke's 'The Piano Teacher'
April 14 - Truffaut's 'The Man Who Loved Women'

Call for papers: Muslim Media and the 'War on Terror'
6-7 July 2006 - Department of Politics, University of Bristol
Sponsored by the ESRC New Security Challenges Programme grant RES-223-25-0056.

Although there has been considerable research, particularly since September 11, on media representations of terrorism, the war on terror, anti-terrorist security policy, Islam, and so on, these analyses overwhelmingly focus on the mainstream Western press. In this workshop, and the edited book to issue from it, we shift attention explicitly to the analysis of Muslim media and their representations.

Papers are welcome on a wide range of topics relating to Muslim media* and the 'war on terror'. We are particularly interested in studies of Muslim media in the diaspora -- in Europe, the United States, and elsewhere - but papers on media in 'Muslim countries' (those with Muslim traditions in both the Arab and non-Arab world) or papers comparing Muslim and non-Muslim media are also very welcome. Papers can focus on single countries, or make comparisons between and among countries. We also encourage authors to consider diverse forms of media
-- printed, televised, online - or to compare and contrast among them.

We hope that these papers will engender a wide-ranging discussion of the role of Muslim media of all kinds in generating discourses about, and/or attitudes among Muslims towards (among other things)
-The contemporary war on terrorism
-Its attendant anti-terrorist security policies
-The nature of Muslim-non-Muslim relations
-The status of Islam, in the countries of diaspora or in the Muslim world*
-The relation of Islam to 'the West' or to terrorism
-The implications of these representations for diverse Muslim communities

Central questions that might be asked include:
-How do Muslim media, in the Muslim world or in the diaspora, represent the terrorism, the war on terrorism, anti-terrorist security policies, and so on?
-Do Muslim media in the diaspora represent these differently than media from within the Muslim world?
-How do Muslim media within the diaspora differ among themselves, across states or across different media?
-What effect do the representations in diverse Muslim media have on the communities in which they are read or viewed?

*Authors are encouraged also to be critical of the concepts deployed in this call for papers, including the notion of 'Muslim media' and the 'Muslim world' itself.

The workshop will take place at the University of Bristol, Department of Politics, on 6-7 July 2006. Please submit abstracts to Jutta Weldes (jutta.weldes@bris.ac.uk) and Gennaro Gervasio (g.gervasio@bris.ac.uk) by April 15 (or as soon as possible). For more information, also please contact Jutta Weldes or Gennaro Gervasio.