S223. Leaving the Movie Theater: Cinema and Literature

Status: Not Accepted

Room 207, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

What makes a text cinematic? Does entanglement promote different ways of seeing? How can writers re-envision cinematic forms to expand their own text-based work? This panel will explore the overlapping spaces between text and moving image in order to uncover what their enmeshment might reveal about language, translation, collaboration, creative practice, genre, and more. Four writers whose work crosses fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will address how cinema is a conduit for their own writing.


Participants

Moderator:

Allison Conner's writing has appeared in Bitch, Jacket2, and The Rumpus and in the anthologies Forward: 21st Century Flash Fiction and Rockhaven: A History of Interiors. She is the reviews editor at Full Stop and manages the Speakers Bureau at Jack Jones Literary Arts.

Tisa Bryant is the author of Unexplained Presence and Residual (forthcoming), cocreator of the Black Book visual mixtape series, and co-founder of the Encyclopedia Project. Focused on experimentation and Black feminist thought, she teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

Diana Marie Delgado's first poetry collection, Tracing the Horse, is forthcoming. She is the author of Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust. She is a 2017 NEA Fellow in Poetry.

Aisha Sabatini Sloan is the author of The Fluency of Light: Coming of Age in a Theater of Black and White and Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit, which won the CLMP Firecracker Award for Nonfiction. She is currently the Helen Zell Visiting Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the University of Michigan.

Mimi Wong is the editor in chief of The Offing. Her writing on art and culture has been published in ArtAsiaPacific, Catapult, Electric Literature, Hyperallergic, Literary Hub, and Refinery29. She's worked as a producer and editor in film and television for the past decade.

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