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Representations of Love in Film and Television
2010 Film & History Conference
November 11-14, 2010
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Milwaukee, WI
www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory

FINAL DEADLINE! September 15, 2010

Film & History has now entered its final CFP period! We invite those who have not already done so to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, and roundtables for our upcoming conference, "Representations of Love in Film and Television," to be held November 11-14, 2010, in Milwaukee, WI. Please see the list of active topic areas, below, and watch for topical calls for papers soon!

We are also delighted to welcome director and film theorist Dr. Laura Mulvey, as the conference's keynote speaker. Dr. Mulvey, professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, is widely known for her influential essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975), and is also the author of _Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image_ (2006), and _Fetishism and Curiosity_ (1996), along with numerous articles. Her films, co-written and co-directed with Peter Wollen, are recognized for their complex explorations of identity, symbolism, and the female experience.

Please consult our website (www.uwosh.edu/filmandhistory), or email Director of Communications, Cynthia Miller, at cymiller@tiac.net, for additional information.

Areas currently open for paper and panel submissions include:

LOVE, SEX, AND THE RUSH OF ADRENALINE:

* The Bond Girls: Sex and the Secret Agent
* America's Love Affair with Movie Gangsters
* Love and Violence: Action Heroes

LOVE IS A MANY-GENRE'D THING:

* Chicks in Love: "Chick Lit" into "Chick Flicks"
* L'Amour Noir: Fear and Danger in Romance, 1920-1960
* Blaxploitation Films
* Lust in Space: Love and Sex in Science Fiction Film and Television
* Cowboy Love

GENDER TRAPS:

* An American Bromance: Homosocial Love in Film and Television
* Love and the Family Man
* Women and Children First: Gender and Ethics
* Queer Love
* Sons of the Sheik: Global Perspectives on the Alpha Male in Love
* Love, Marriage, and a Baby Carriage

LOVE AMIDST BOUNDARIES AND CHALLENGES:

* Across the Tracks: Love and Class
* Affairs of Race
* Jewish-Gentile Romances
* Teacher, Teach Me Love: Teacher-Student Relationships
* Different Bodies

DANGEROUS LIAISONS:

* Vampire Love
* Lovers on the Side: Tramps and Rogues
* Dangerous, Transgressive, and Unloved: The View from Way Outside
* The Dark Side of Love
* Love, Sex, and Violence

WRITERS IN LOVE:

* Writers in Love/Writers on Love/Writing and Love
* Jane Austen
* Shakespeare In (and Out of) Love

ILLUSTRATED LOVE:

* For the Love of the Fans: Fandom, Comics, and Film Adaptations
* Love and Sex in the Films and Graphic Novels of Alan Moore

OBJECTS OF LOVE:

* Cinephilia
* Love and Food
* Things of Love/the Love of Things
* Loving the Machine

FAITH, COMMITMENT, DEVOTION

* Agape: Faith, God, Mission
* Citizen Love: Flag Wavers, Flag Burners
* Love and Commitment in Fraternity/Sorority Films
* Love Thy Leader
* Pro Patria Mori: Patriotism in Film and Television
* Love, Romance, and Social Justice in Film

LITTLE SCREEN: BIG LOVE

* All in the Family: The Bonds of Family Affection in Television
* Love in the Golden Age of Television
* Reality-TV Love
* Taking Care of Business: Office Romance in Television

THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF LOVE

* The Special FX of Love
* Jazz and Film: A Love Affair
* Listening to the Music of Love in Film and Television
* Performing Love/Loving Performance: Broadway Musical Motifs in Cinema and Television

A TIME FOR LOVE

* Love in the Ancient World
* Medieval Love and Sexuality
* Love in a Time of War

'TIL DEATH DO US PART

* Love and Death
* Love at the End of Life

CONTEXTUALIZING LOVE

* Sex and Love in Asian Contexts
* Hollywood's (m)Other(ly) Love: (post)Freudian Approaches
* The Landscape of Love: Nature and the Environment in Film and Television
* The Intrusion of Love