CFP: Film Genre and Criticism (3/31/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)
Film I Panel of the Midwest Modern Language Association:
Panel Title: Film Genre and Criticism
This panel will consider film's capacity to revisit and revise genre in =
a critical fashion. How do genre forms and conventions inhibit or =
enhance a film's critical potential? What does a film gain by combining =
and redefining genres and subgenres? Abstracts for this panel should =
explore the interconnections between film genre and criticism through =
analyses that perform critical redefinitions themselves.=20
Some possible topics to consider include:
-the connections between genre formations and questions of nationality, =
culture, class, race, and gender