film and television

Call for Papers: Apocalypse Now? Media and the End of the World Conference

We invite panel and individual-paper proposals for the "Apocalypse Now?
Media and the End of the World Conference," to be held at Plymouth
State University (Plymouth, New Hampshire) April 13-14, 2007.

The members of the conference committee are seeking contributions that
explore noteworthy coverage patterns, representations and themes, in
various media forms, pertaining to the longstanding idea of the end of
the world. Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference
theme broadly and innovatively. Individual presentations will be
limited to 20 minutes in length.

Call for Papers
UPDATED Deadline: September 10, 2006
2006 Film and History League Conference
“The Documentary Tradition”
www.filmandhistory.org
AREA: Music and Performance
The interaction between film and music provides a rich opportunity from
which to
examine the political and cultural realities of popular music forms and the
interplay between these forms. Considering the conference’s title,
“The Documentary Tradition,” research that is able, within a documentary
film form, to make sense of musical practice in culture and potentially
everyday life will be considered for the “Music and Performance”

CALL FOR PAPERS

SPECIAL SESSION OF THE ARTHURIAN LEGENDS AREA

MR. MERLIN'S NEIGHBORHOOD: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN ON TV

PROPOSALS DUE TO ORGANIZER BY 10/15/06

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Call for Papers
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*Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Conference Mar. 1 -4,
2007, Baltimore, Maryland*

*Panel: The Image of Women in the Films of Hitchcock & Fellini:
Comparison and Contrast*

Explore the images of women in the films of Hitchcock and Fellini:
REBECCA, NOTORIOUS, PSYCHO, THE BIRDS, MARNIE, FRENZY; LA STRADA, LA
DOLCE VITA, NIGHTS OF CABIRIA, JULIET OF THE SPIRITS, CITY OF WOMEN.

Papers may be on one or more films of Hitchcock & Fellini, comparing &
contrasting OR on a single film of one of them, that can be compared or
contrasted during the discussion period.

Queer Mainstreams in Visual Culture

Papers are invited for a special panel at ‘Return to Gender’, the forthcoming graduate conference at the University of Glasgow on 25th November, 2006. The panel will address how queer identities have been constructed in visual culture (film, TV, magazines, pulp fiction, etc). How is non-heteronormative behaviour and identity portrayed? Have these identities become commodified or do they still have a ‘queer’ potential? Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Papers are invited for a collection of essays on Shawn Ryan's award-winning and controversial TV series The Shield. We are seeking critically sophisticated but accessible essays, written from a variety of perspectives, which will stimulate serious debate around this remarkable show.

Contributions may seek to address (but are certainly not limited to) the following topics:

--Racial identity and racial conflict

--Testimony and confession

--Masculinities

--Homosociality and homosexuality

--Familial and symbolic paternities

--Collective identity (gangs, teams, mobs etc) and collective violence

--Bodily inscriptions of violence (wounds, brandings, tattoos etc)

Deadline Extended to 15 August 2006

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2006 Film and History League Conference

"The Documentary Tradition" Dallas 8-12 November 2006
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AREA: Exhibition

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While much has been written about the documentary, we still know
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Call for Papers

2006 Film and History League Conference
“The Documentary Tradition”
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: “Value-Added” Content and the DVD Doc

4th International 'Language, Communication, Culture' Conference
Lisbon, Lusofona University, November 28-30, 2006

http://lcc.ulusofona.pt/

An organisation of the staff, students and associates of the 'Culture
and Society' Postgraduate Programme (University of Lisbon), of the staff
of the Department of Communication, Arts and Information Technology
(Lusofona University), and of Best Travel Agency.

Keynote Speakers:

Vikki Bell (Goldsmith's College, University of London)
Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University)

The conference will be structured around three topics:

1 - Media, media-making and the politics of news production

"Who are these people?"* Enquiring after the audience/s

2nd Edinburgh Film Audiences Conference
22nd/23rd March 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS

UPDATE: Due to the late posting of this call for papers we will accept
abstracts after the originally posted dateline of 4th August. We would be
happy to receive abstracts as soon as possible.

Deadline extended:

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2006 Film and History League Conference

"The Documentary Tradition"

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AREA: Errol Morris

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Deadline Extended to 15 August 2006
Call for Papers (Update)
 
2006 Film and History League Conference
"The Documentary Tradition"
www.filmandhistory.org
 
AREA: Emile de Antonio
 
"Arguably the most provocative film essayist/documentarian of the last sixty years in American life." Bill Nichols

Call for Papers
Deadline: August 15, 2006

2006 Film and History League Conference
“The Documentary Tradition”
www.filmandhistory.org

AREA: Music and Performance

Call For Papers:

A panel for the 16th annual Cultural Studies Conference on
"Entertainment" at Kansas State University, March 8-10, 2007.

(http://www.k-state.edu/english/symposium/)

"INFOTAINMENT" IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1980

This panel seeks papers on infotainment programs in the United States
before 1980 (essentially, before the launch of CNN in 1980 and MTV in 1981).

We shall use a broad conception of infotainment that includes
newspaper, magazine and other modes of textual nonfiction, and radio,
film, and both "Golden Age" and post-"Golden Age" television.