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Article: Architectures of the Moving Image.(Conference news)
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SOCIETY FOR CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES CONFERENCE
PHILADELPHIA
MARCH 6-9, 2008
Befitting its theme, "Architectures of the Moving Image," the recent Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SGMS) annual conference was held at Philadelphia's Loews Hotel, a sleekly modernist skyscraper designed in 1932. Appropriately, the event featured plenary addresses on the intersection of architecture, global culture, and cinema by Ackbar Abbas and Anthony Vidler. The conference was the largest in the organizations's history, with well over 1,200 attendees, and the wide scope of panels, workshops, film screenings, and meetings proved yet again that SGMS is ...
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