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CAMRA BEGINS A NEW YEAR

9/18/2015

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We had a wonderful brainstorming, planning, and regathering meeting on September 11, 2015 at Slought! Thankful for the new partnership with Slought.  They are awesome check them out here. We are excited about the CAMRA Labs, CAMRA Fellows Program, SSMF and upcoming events this year.  Look for upcoming events soon.
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REMARKS FROM THE OPENING OF SSMF 2015

4/30/2015

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By request we are posting here below Arjun Shankar‘s introductory remarks for Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, The Law in These Parts, which inaugurated the 2015 Screening Scholarship Media Festival.

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Good evening and thank you all for joining us today for the inaugural session of camra’s 2015 Screening Scholarship Media Festival. I’m Arjun Shankar, doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania and one of this years director’s of camra along with Sandra Ristovska. I’d like to start by thanking Corrina Laughlin, Veena Vasudevan, and Nora Gross for organizing this year’s Screening Scholarship Media Festival, which I think is going to be truly outstanding.
It’s a real pleasure for me to introduce Ra’anan Alexandrowicz and his film The Law In These Parts today. And to begin I just wanted to explain a bit about camra’s mission and vision and how it was we decided to invite Ra’anan for this evening’s event. We’ve been around for three years now, and we started in a really humble way, in a class taught by our directors – Dr. John Jackson, Dr. Stanton Wortham, and Amit Das. In that class we were tasked with a single question: what would it mean to develop filmic and digital products that were as rigorous and as legitimate as their textual counterparts? And it was that question which drove us to start camra, really for any graduate student across the university who wasn’t satisfied with traditional scholarly practices or simplistic disciplinary confines.


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REFLECTIONS ON SSMF, 2015

4/16/2015

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by Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan and Tali Ziv

By all accounts, SSMF 2015 was a resounding success.  Interpreting the theme “performing the digital,” scholars, media activists, artists, and educators brought a diverse array of filmic, new media, and transmedia projects to the table that pushed everyone present to grapple with questions concerning what constitutes the digitally human — questions that have generated considerable interest within the academy in recent years.

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CAMRA IN PAUL STOLLER’S REVIEW OF ETHNOGRAPHIC TERMINALIA

2/25/2015

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As we conclude a fantastic SSMF, which we’ll be blogging about quite a bit over the next few weeks, we also wanted to spread a bit more good news. camra was recently featured in Paul Stoller’s review of Ethnographic Terminalia in Cultural Anthropology! Specifically, the Ward and AMBLER Reach get paragraphs discussing the work and the import towards questions of tactility and the “in-between” in anthropology.
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INAUGURATING THE SEMESTER OF THE TV SHOW

1/29/2015

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When I was in college I used to have an argument with one of my good friends, a future filmmaker who would not give up his allegiance to the cinema at any cost. I’d annoy him whenever I could with a simple argument: television, I’d tell him, was set to overtake the cinema as the highest form of audiovisual art, the possibility to tell long form narratives with intense character development foretelling a genre that could be as complex as the novel without losing any of the aesthetic sensibilities which the cinema has developed in its hundred year history.
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At the time, I was admittedly a TV newbie, having been deprived of the best American programming from the 80s and 90s while living in a conservative Brahmin household still thanklessly and ineffectively holding on to some type of anti-Western puritanism, which basically meant my early relationship to television was almost exclusively limited to children’s cartoons and sports (both of which I still love dearly). And so, when I finally had the opportunity to watch TV unencumbered by any suspicious family gaze, I devoured anything and everything, binging on Alias, 24, Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Beauty and the Geek, and untold hours of a reality TV genre that was just coming into its own and of which I remain a bit embarrassed for having consumed (and continuing to consume) so willingly.

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