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Image Conference–Book Your Hotel Room Now

Published on August 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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During the 2010 Image Conference, December 2-3 at UCLA, we’ve arranged a special conference accommodation rate for delegates. Stay, mingle and meet delegates at the Hotel Palomar Los Angeles-Westwood.

Some hotel amenities include:

  • Complimentary morning coffee and tea bar
  • Hosted evening wine hour in hotel’s living room
  • Amenities of home, including iron and ironing board, hairdryer, plush animal print bathrobes, lighted make-up and full-length mirrors
  • “Forgot It? We’ve Got It!” essential travel items

    More amenities and booking information available on The Image Conference Accommodation webpage.

    Film Critic and Professor, Emanuel Levy, speaking in LA on The Image

    Published on July 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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    As a film author, professor and critic, Levy will speak in a plenary session at The Image Conference, 2-3 December 2010 at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

    Emanuel Levy belongs to a small group of scholars who have juggled two full-time careers, as film professor and as film critic. He has taught at Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Wellesley College, ASU, where he was chair between 1990 and 1992, and now at UCLA Film School.

    He is a voting member of five groups: Hollywood Foreign Press (HFPA), Los Angeles Film Critics (LAFCA), Broadcast Film Critics (BFCA), National Society of Film Critics (NSFC), and the International Federation of Film Critics (Fipresci). He has served on the grand juries of 45 international film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Montreal, Locarno, Taormina, San Francisco, Hawaii. More…

    Becky Smith, Emmy-nominated director and head of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, speaking at The Image Conference

    Published on June 30, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

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    Becky Smith will join as a plenary speaker at the 2010 Image Conference, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2-3 December.

    Becky Smith is head of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television First Year MFA directing program as well as an Emmy-nominated film and television director. Smith has directed numerous reality and documentary pilots and series for networks including MTV, MTV2, BRAVO, NBC, Fox, Disney Channel, PBS, Fuse and ABC Family. Her most recent film is the feature comedy “16 to Life”, which has won five “Best Feature” awards at international film festivals, one “Best Actress” and one “Best Supporting Actress”. The film stars Theresa Russell (“Black Widow”, “Spider-Man III”) and Hallee Hirsh (“ER”, “JAG”, “You’ve Got Mail”). Smith recently completed the feature documentary “The Daring Project”, which chronicles dancers from the Bolshoi, Kirov, NYC Ballet and ABT. More…

    Sean Cubitt (U. of Melbourne) and Douglas Kellner (UCLA) to speak in Los Angeles

    Published on April 30, 2010 in Conference, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

    Sean Cubitt and Douglas Kellner will contributing as plenary speakers at the International Conference on the Image, 2-3 December 2010 in Los Angeles, USA.

    Sean Cubitt is Director of the Program in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor of the University of Dundee. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture (Comedia/Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Macmillans/St Martins Press, 1993), Digital Aesthetics (Theory, Culture and Society/Sage, 1998), Simulation and Social Theory (Theory, Culture and Society/ Sage, 2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2004) and EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005). More…

    Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration, encompassing Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. More…